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Last Updated: April 3, 2025

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API Gateway

API Gateway

Type
Network Mgmt.
D3FEND Tactic
Network Traffic Analysis (D3-NTA)Network Isolation (D3-NI)
TL;DR

Manages API requests, security, and passes them to back-end services.

Description

A server that acts as an API front-end, receiving API requests, enforcing throttling and security policies, passing requests to the back-end service, and then returning the results.

Techniques
SQL injection