The Secure Gateway Service provides a quick, easy and secure solution to connect anything to anything. The solution provides a persistent connection between on-premises or third-party cloud environments and the IBM Cloud®.
Quickly set up gateways to connect your environments, manage the mapping between your local and remote destinations, and monitor all of your traffic.
All communication with Secure Gateway is easily configurable to provide TLS encryption and mutual authentication.
Monitor all your gateways from the Secure Gateway Service dashboard or monitor individual gateways from the Secure Gateway Service client.
Simple access management controls are available from the Secure Gateway Service client to allow or deny access on a per-resource basis to prevent any unauthorized access. This list will automatically synchronize to any client connected to the same gateway.
With Professional and Enterprise plans, you can connect multiple instances of the Secure Gateway Service client to your gateway to automatically use built-in connection load balancing and connection fail-over if a client instance goes down.
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Available free: one gateway, one destination and one client, transferring up to 500 MB per month
Offering five gateways with five destinations each and 50 GB per month throughput included. Connect to two clients per gateway for HA and load-balancing.
Offering 25 gateways with 25 destinations each and 500 GB per month throughput included. Also includes a dedicated hostname and static IP for users that require static IPs for their networking needs.
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Frequently asked questions
The IBM® Secure Gateway Service is not a VPN. It uses a server-client pairing to create a persistent, secure connection from the on-premises network to IBM Bluemix® that allows connections to specific resources in the on-prem network. Rather than bridging the environments at the network level, it provides granular resource control on both the cloud and on premises. Rather than starting with everything exposed and limiting connectivity with a VPN, we only require two outbound requests from the on-prem network, and default to denying access to local resources.
The Secure Gateway service represents layer 4 of the OSI model.
The Secure Gateway Service supports TLS version 1.2.
For the encrypted protocols, we offer both server-side and mutual authentication. Beyond that, we also offer iptables for these public-facing listeners to ensure only specific locations can initiate connections. From the Secure Gateway Client, there is also an Access Control List that determines what the client is allowed to connect to. This means that just because a resource has been defined and a public endpoint has been provided, no resource will be exposed until the Access Control List has been modified.
We currently support TCP, TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, and UDP. In theory, anything operating on top of those protocols should be possible to use. Once a resource has been defined within Secure Gateway, we will provide a unique public connection point to access the resource.
See the official IBM® Secure Gateway Service documentation to help you get started. Find info on basics, technical specifications, guides and more.
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