API gateway

Built-in security of IBM® DataPower® Gateway is designed to secure, control and mediate access to your APIs

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Keep your API traffic secure

API gateway, based on IBM DataPower, is an enterprise gateway designed to securely expose data and business applications wherever they reside, on premises and across clouds.

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Benefits
Comprehensive set of policies

It provides a comprehensive set of policies for security, traffic management, mediation, accelerations and support for non-HTTP protocols.

The gateway acts as the gatekeeper

Gatekeeper to the applications calling your APIs and helps protect your APIs at runtime.

API interaction report

It also logs and reports API interactions to analytics for insights and reporting.

Unified approach for API Gateway

A unified gateway approach that provides protected access to backend data and systems at runtime.

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Enterprise-grade security

Manage threats and exposures with a highly-optimized and security-rich transport-level connectivity layer to accelerate connectivity. Better secure access to APIs through identity assertion standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token (JWT) or third-party services.

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Manage using a command-line interface (CLI)

Easily manage your schemas, configurations and endpoints with a CLI-first approach and framework in which everything is code file based. This allows your APIs to easily and naturally fit into CI/CD pipelines.

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Built-in testing and reporting

Test, manage and monitor your GraphQL APIs through a web-based dashboard.

Learn about deploying DataPower Gateway
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Protect your GraphQL APIs with enterprise-level security

Queries, mutations and subscriptions have standards-based, easy-to-use enforcement mechanisms for authorization and authentication to ensure your APIs and data are well protected.

Learn about configuring and troubleshooting DataPower Gateway
Screenshot of Enterprise-grade security code
Enterprise-grade security

Manage threats and exposures with a highly-optimized and security-rich transport-level connectivity layer to accelerate connectivity. Better secure access to APIs through identity assertion standards such as OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JSON Web Token (JWT) or third-party services.

Learn about security management
Screenshot of a command-line interface (CLI)
Manage using a command-line interface (CLI)

Easily manage your schemas, configurations and endpoints with a CLI-first approach and framework in which everything is code file based. This allows your APIs to easily and naturally fit into CI/CD pipelines.

Learn about using policies
Screenshot of Default Availability Zone UI dashboard
Built-in testing and reporting

Test, manage and monitor your GraphQL APIs through a web-based dashboard.

Learn about deploying DataPower Gateway
Screenshot of Develop page UI dashboard
Protect your GraphQL APIs with enterprise-level security

Queries, mutations and subscriptions have standards-based, easy-to-use enforcement mechanisms for authorization and authentication to ensure your APIs and data are well protected.

Learn about configuring and troubleshooting DataPower Gateway

Resources

DataPower Gateway for developers

Explore tools, tutorials and other DataPower Gateway resources for developers.

IBM Integration Community

Check out DataPower Gateway-related discussions, blogs, best practices and more.

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