Posts tagged with mutual-auth

The last thing you want after carefully setting up your system with apiman is for someone to be able to call around the gateway and hit your APIs directly. The typical solution for this is to lock down your network so that the only publicly accessible part is the apiman gateway, whilst APIs are hidden in the private part of the network, which apiman can access, but not someone in the outside world. However, in some situations fine-grained network controls may not be available, such as the cloud; or, you may wish to have an additional layer of security to be reassured that no funny business is going on (such as imposters).

The class of solutions to this problem generally falls under the banner of mutual authentication. One such mutual auth offering apiman supports is Mutually Authenticated TLS^[1].