What is a Microgateway?
Airlock Microgateway is a lightweight security gateway designed specifically for container environments. With little effort, it helps DevOps engineers and application teams protect their services from unauthorized or malicious access.
Typical use cases:
- Protecting APIs against OWASP API top 10 attacks.
- Securing container applications and microservices against zero day attacks like Log4Shell
- Decentralized access control (including token validation)
Airlock Microgateway is also available as a free Community Edition.
Airlock Microgateway
Highlights▶ Multi-level security filters for protecting against known attacks (OWASP Top 10)
▶ OpenAPI and JSON Schema protection for close-meshed API security: Only what is explicitly declared is accepted.
▶ Access management in combination with Airlock IAM (including OAuth, OIDC, SAML)
▶ Authentication enforcement (including JWT token validation)
▶ Text-based configuration via YAML file for easy automation
▶ Load balancing: load distribution across multiple service instances
Benefit
Cloud-native = Lightweight and automatable
Airlock Microgateway is designed for modern container architectures, is controlled via Kubernetes and integrates easily with GitOps processes.
Agile security = more autonomy for application teams
Application-specific security rules are defined by developers and enforced by Microgateway. Manual handoffs and coordination with SecOps are largely eliminated.
Shift Left = Security from the start
Microgateways are deployed during development and testing. This means that the architecture is similar to the productive environment and any integration hurdles are eliminated at an early stage.
Zero Trust = No bypass
A Microgateway is positioned directly in front of the application, so nobody can bypass it. This helps you implement a Zero Trust architecture in multi-cloud environments.
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How it works
In this recorded webinar from our partner VSHN you can learn how Airlock Microgateway could work for you.
Toward DevSecOps
In a DevSecOps culture, every agile team has a security expert. He fulfills non-functional requirements, so the product owner includes security in the development plan.
Read this whitepaper to learn key insights on how to successfully and efficiently implement DevSecOps, what security components are needed to make it happen, and the benefits of a microgateway architecture.
Convincing performance: Gold for the Airlock Microgateway
Not only our customers, but also the independent information security community is convinced. The Airlock Microgateway was awarded Gold at the Cyber Security Excellence Awards 2022 in the Zero Trust Security category. In total, Airlock solutions have won the gold award seven times.