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implementing-api-gateway-security-controls

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'Configures API gateways such as Kong, AWS API Gateway, Azure APIM,

When to use

• Deploying a centralized authentication and authorization layer for microservice APIs
• Implementing rate limiting, throttling, and quota management across all API endpoints
• Configuring request/response validation against OpenAPI specifications at the gateway level
• Setting up TLS termination, mutual TLS, and certificate management for API traffic
• Integrating WAF rules with the API gateway to block injection, XSS, and known attack patterns

When not to use

• sole security layer

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