Is Your API Management Solution Really Secure?
Is Your API Management Solution Really Secure? NGINX is the industry’s most ubiquitous API gateway, an infrastructure component that processes API traffic in API management solutions like those from Apigee, Axway, IBM DataPower, Kong, Red Hat 3scale, and Torry Harris. Combine that with the fact that more than 40% of the users we surveyed in 2018 have deployed NGINX Plus as an API gateway, it’s fair to say that NGINX is processing most of the world’s API traffic. That’s not too shabby, considering that Akamai puts API traffic at 83% of the world’s Internet traffic. Why is NGINX so ubiquitous in the world of APIs? Because NGINX delivers high performance, security, and authentication services – all critical to your API environment. NGINX prevents DDoS attacks by enforcing rate limits on requests or bandwidth limits on specific users, and NGINX Plus provides authentication and fine‑grained access control to protect [ more… ]
