Secure
your APIs
Modern businesses need to protect their APIs from intensifying threats. IBM API Connect® makes it easy.
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Learn how to unlock the full potential of your APIs
Protect sensitive
API data from vulnerabilities
IBM API Connect offers a range of capabilities to secure, control and mediate access to your APIs. Control access to APIs through authentication and authorization using OAuth, OpenID Connect and third-party services. Deploy anywhere, from a DMZ to co-located with your cloud-native apps and microservices, protecting access at runtime, anywhere
Secure to the core
With a signed, encrypted gateway and trusted API security policies, your data and services will have multiple layers of protection.
Open Authentication (OAuth)
Secure API access with OAuth, a token-based authorization protocol that allows third-party websites or applications to access user data without requiring the user to share personal information.
Learn to protect your APIs
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
Secure transmission of data over the network to better protect sensitive information against man-in-the-middle attacks like eavesdropping and data tampering.
Learn to secure data transmissions
User registry authentication
Learn to control access
Learn to secure data transmissions
Benefits
Secure
IBM® DataPower® Gateway (included with IBM API Connect) is a trusted, security-hardened gateway designed for high performance and enterprise-grade security, with the highest level of assurance certification to protect your critical business applications.
Efficient
DataPower Gateway delivers enterprise-grade security and high performance without the need for multiple gateways.
Reliable
DataPower Gateway can achieve up to 30,000 TPS, and we publish performance data across both simple and robust policy use cases for full transparency.