Ensure secure client requests with Catalyst API Gateway

Catalyst API Gateway is an advanced API management tool that enables you to create, maintain, and monitor HTTP requests generated from client applications and microservices. It serves as a proxy server for the APIs to drive serverless functionalities, such as authentication, accessing end points of microservices, throttling, and many other services.

Key features

 

Advanced Security

The highly-secure API Gateway with advanced security rules offers additional authentication features, such as OAuth and API key. The Gateway handles all client requests securely while preventing certain components from being directly exposed to clients.

 

Custom API Endpoints

Create customized API end points using Catalyst API Gateway. The API Gateway can help to create significant API end points that are simple, customizable and easy to use.

 

Throttling

Enable IP based and time based throttling in your apps and microservices with Catalyst API Gateway. Set limitations and permissions to verify API requests. This will help to keep a check on unexpected app crashes, and allow only verified requests.

 

Efficient API management

Catalyst API Gateway acts as a single endpoint for all your clients, and allows you to create custom APIs with flexible definitions for each request.This eventually minimizes the number of round trips between the client and application server, improving end-user experience.

Use cases

  • Simplify API scaling
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  • API Throttling System
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  • API versioning
 

Build and scale APIs rapidly

Without an API gateway, managing applications and APIs occurs in multiple silos, which can incur human error and is inefficient at scale. As the API management footprint evolves, a flexible solution to support your business is essential. Catalyst API Gateway delivers a platform that is compliant with relevant message security protocols, offers rapid user authentication, and simplifies scaling APIs, thereby facilitating your ability to build more APIs for large global enterprises.

 

Avoid possible DoS attacks with API rate limiting

When a user sends too many requests, API rate limiting can throttle client connections instead of disconnecting them immediately. Throttling lets users still use your services while also protecting your API. Secure your backend API by configuring the Catalyst API Gateway to include automatic retry logic when a 429 HTTP response comes due to throttling. With an API throttling system in place, you can set a rate limit for API requests to avoid sudden spikes indicating possible Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

 

Manage different versions of API

Catalyst API Gateway acts as a gateway between API consumers and providers, and helps manage the different versions of APIs. Whenever a new version of API is introduced, Catalyst API Gateway can route requests to the appropriate version based on the criteria that you set allowing different versions of an API to coexist without causing conflicts or breaking clients using older versions. Additionally, the Catalyst API Gateway can easily roll back to a previous version of an API if a newer version causes issues.