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lightweight api gateway
LiteMesh centralizes microservice communication by routing all requests through a single gateway, streamlining workflows and boosting security.
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In an API gateway like LiteMesh, security is critical for safeguarding sensitive data, preventing unauthorized access, and ensuring compliance with privacy and security regulations.
To set the necessary environment variables,
open your profile configuration: (MAC)
The gateway serves as a central point for managing and securing communication between clients and backend services, making it the front-line for security enforcement. By securing both external access (Client-to-Gateway) and internal communication (Gateway-to-Service), LiteMesh ensures that the entire data flow is protected from potential breaches or unauthorized access.
In summary, the client-to-gateway security ensures that only trusted clients with valid credentials can access the APIs, while the gateway-to-service security guarantees secure and trusted communication within the system. This holistic approach creates a robust, secure API management platform, protecting both external and internal interactions across the microservices architecture.
Security
By securing both external access and internal communication, LiteMesh ensures that the entire data flow remains protected against potential breaches, unauthorized access, and other security threats throughout the system
Resiliency
API calls routed through LiteMesh pass through multiple layers of resiliency checks designed to handle potential failures, sudden traffic spikes, and timeouts, ensuring reliable delivery and maintaining system stability before reaching their destination.
Dynamic Routing
Facilitates on-the-fly microservice provisioning without the need for manual configuration by leveraging service discovery, load balancing, and application-specific routing rules, ensuring seamless scalability and adaptability within the system
Analytics
Provides comprehensive metrics to capture, analyze, and visually display client-to-app and app-to-client data through detailed graphical representations, enabling better insights and performance tracking
Security
In an API gateway like LiteMesh, security is critical for safeguarding sensitive data, preventing unauthorized access, and ensuring compliance with privacy and security regulations.
To set the necessary environment variables,
open your profile configuration: (MAC)
The gateway serves as a central point for managing and securing communication between clients and backend services, making it the front-line for security enforcement. By securing both external access (Client-to-Gateway) and internal communication (Gateway-to-Service), LiteMesh ensures that the entire data flow is protected from potential breaches or unauthorized access.
In summary, the client-to-gateway security ensures that only trusted clients with valid credentials can access the APIs, while the gateway-to-service security guarantees secure and trusted communication within the system. This holistic approach creates a robust, secure API management platform, protecting both external and internal interactions across the microservices architecture.
Overall Benefits of This Dual-Layer Security Model
Separation of Concerns
This dual-layer approach simplifies the architecture by keeping authentication/authorization concerns separate from service communication, allowing each layer to focus on its specific security functions.
Zero-Trust Architecture
LiteMesh's approach to security embodies a zero-trust model, where no entity (client or service) is trusted by default, and every interaction must be authenticated
and authorized.
Flexible and Scalable
Using OAuth2 and JWT allows LiteMesh to handle millions of API requests, while mTLS ensures that all internal communications are locked down tightly. This makes the platform secure at scale.
Reduced Attack Surface
By validating tokens at the gateway and enforcing mTLS for internal communication, LiteMesh reduces the attack surface, making it harder for attackers to breach or compromise any part of the system.
