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How Do I Make My API Gateway Secure?

September 21, 2022

An API Gateway is a tool that manages APIs and API traffic. Essentially it sits between remote clients (servers, browsers, mobile apps) and backend services and is responsible for routing API requests in either direction to the right source. It provides a degree of protection out of the box and in this article we’ll examine how much security you’ll get from your API Gateway and what else might be needed to secure your data and services. Read Full Story

Is an API Gateway Secure?

September 14, 2022

An API Gateway is a tool that manages APIs and API traffic. Essentially it sits between remote clients (servers, browsers, mobile apps) and backend services and is responsible for routing API requests in either direction to the right source. But how much security should you expect from an API Gateway? Read Full Story

Approov Integration for the AWS API Gateway Platform

August 17, 2021

The AWS API Gateway platform aims to act as the front gate for APIs hosted in AWS, on premise, or even in other cloud services. The fully managed platform allows developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor and secure APIs at any scale. Read Full Story

Approov Cloudflare Worker Quickstart

August 14, 2020

Cloudflare started as a CDN that quickly became popular among developers due to its efficiency in delivering customer facing Internet content from a closer location to the end user than the real location of the backend server. Here is how to integrate Approov token checking into it. Read Full Story

Approov Integration with Kong API Gateway

May 20, 2020

API Gateways have become very popular for deploying APIs at scale because they sit between the client and the API server backend This enables all kinds of integrations without the need to modify the API code itself, and that’s exactly what Kong API Gateway excels at. Read Full Story

Approov Integration With NGINX Plus

May 14, 2020

Photo by James Wheeler from Pexels NGINX first gained popularity as a fast and efficient web server with cache, load balancing and reverse proxy capabilities. With the evolution to NGINX Plus it gained additional capabilities, such as acting as an API Gateway with built in security controls. These security controls can be further extended via dynamic modules and we will utilise them to integrate Approov into the platform without changing any API code. Read Full Story