Network Slicing (NS) has transformed the landscape of resource sharing in
networks, offering flexibility to support services and applications with highly
variable requirements in areas such as the next-generation 5G/6G mobile
networks (NGMN), vehicular networks, industrial Internet of Things (IoT), and
verticals. Although significant research and experimentation have driven the
development of network slicing, existing architectures often fall short in
intrinsic architectural intelligent security capabilities. This paper proposes
an architecture-intelligent security mechanism to improve the NS solutions. We
idealized a security-native architecture that deploys intelligent microservices
as federated agents based on machine learning, providing intra-slice and
architectural operation security for the Slicing Future Internet
Infrastructures (SFI2) reference architecture. It is noteworthy that federated
learning approaches match the highly distributed modern microservice-based
architectures, thus providing a unifying and scalable design choice for NS
platforms addressing both service and security. Using ML-Agents and Security
Agents, our approach identified Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) and
intrusion attacks within the slice using generic and non-intrusive telemetry
records, achieving an average accuracy of approximately $95.60\%$ in the
network slicing architecture and $99.99\%$ for the deployed slice --
intra-slice. This result demonstrates the potential for leveraging
architectural operational security and introduces a promising new research
direction for network slicing architectures.