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Reduce API Security Risks with Standardized Governance
Learn why federated API management is the key to striking a balance between agility and governance.
Solution
Innovate faster with
API governance in place
Define, apply, and enforce governance policies consistently across
API gateways, ingress controllers, and meshes.
Build higher-quality APIs across your organization
Governance ensures that APIs are developed, deployed, and managed in a consistent, secure, and compliant manner that adheres to DevOps principles, regulatory requirements, and industry standards.
Learn how Verifone, the world's leading payment provider, improved APIM time to market by 20X and reduced TCO by 75% with Kong.
The benefits of API governance
Comply with regulations without compromising development velocity
Achieve API security, consistency, and compliance through automation, collaboration, and decentralization.
Relieve application teams from architectural concerns
Provide application teams with a self-service API platform that provides the flexibility and controls to deploy and run their applications on the clouds, infrastructures, and regions of their choice.
Enhance developer productivity through adaptable APIs
Build applications faster through APIs that are secure, reusable, and of high quality across teams, ranging from dozens to hundreds.
An API governance solution that drives secure innovation
Federated API management at scale
Kong delivers a federated model deployed through an API platform that enables you to balance the architectural requirements of different application teams while ensuring compliance with regulations and corporate best practices.
Learn how GCash implemented a decentralized architecture while enforcing consistency and reliability with Kong.
Encode governance into onboarding
Grant developers tailored access to services via Kong’s role-based access control (RBAC) to provide fine-grained governance right from the beginning, starting with onboarding.
Learn how MNRB Holdings Berhad streamlined developer onboarding, intuitive content management for documentation, and role-based access control with Kong.
Govern, secure, and manage all AI traffic
Implement built-in logging, credential management, data sanitization, security, and traffic control with Kong’s AI plugins.
Remove governance friction
Kong empowers you to define, apply, and enforce governance policies programmatically and consistently across gateways, ingress controllers, and meshes in diverse operating environments and protocols.
Learn how Raiffeisen Bank ensured operational resilience by standardizing data access with fine-grained security and centralized governance.
A single location for all your API governance needs
Kong streamlines the management of your APIs through a single audit platform that delivers change tracking and monitoring across your entire API landscape.
Learn how Kong provided Fubon Financial with the ability to provision API governance in a centralized fashion across the entirety of its business.
Gartner names Kong a Leader
For the fourth consecutive year, Kong was named a Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for API Management
Related resources
Webinar
Federated API Management: Balancing Agility and Governance
See how a federated API model promotes enterprise-wide API consumption, adoption, and democratization.
Solution
Combat Risk with Extensible API Security
Learn how Kong’s built-in security features and a rich plugin ecosystem make it easy for you to customize and apply granular security policies for your APIs.
Questions about API governance?
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