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API Authorization

The latest news and announcements about Kong, our products, and our ecosystem, as well as voices from across our community.

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Solving API Authorization Challenges in Multi-Cloud Environments

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API SecuritySeptember 9, 2021

As more and more companies move to a multi-cloud strategy and increase usage of a cloud native infrastructure , API providers are under a lot of pressure to deliver APIs at scale in multi-cloud environments. At the same time, APIs should follow each company's security requirements and best…

Nima Moghadam

Setting Access Control Policies With Kong and Okta

Kong and Okta Access Control Policies with OpenID Connect
API SecurityJune 24, 2021

In our last Kong and Okta tutorial, we will implement a basic access control policy based on Okta’s groups and planes. This series will show you how to implement service authentication and authorization for Kong Konnect and Okta using the OpenID Connect ( OIDC ) plugin. Parts 1, 2 and 3…

Claudio Acquaviva

Protect Your Services With Kong Gateway Key Authentication

Kong Gateway Key Authentication
API AuthenticationMay 25, 2021

This tutorial will walk through a common use case for the Kong Gateway Key Authentication plugin : using API key authentication to protect a route to an API server endpoint. It’s a simple use case, but it will give you the foundation to deploy and configure the plugin for your own unique project…

Aapo Talvensaari

Implementing Client Credentials With Kong and Okta

Kong Konnect and Okta Post #1
API AuthenticationMay 13, 2021

Using Kong's OpenID Connect (OIDC) plugin, Kong and Okta work together to solve three significant application development challenges: The OIDC plugin enables Kong, as the API gateway , to communicate with Okta via the OAuth/OIDC flows. That way, your app teams don't have to configure and diagnose…

Claudio Acquaviva

Authorizing Microservice APIs With OPA and Kuma

Authorizing Microservices with OPA and Kuma
KumaMarch 16, 2021

Many companies are leveraging DevOps, microservices , automation, self-service, cloud and CI/CD pipelines. These megatrends are changing how companies are building and running software. One thing that often slips through the cracks is security. With microservices, there's an increase in the number…

Tim Hinrichs

Kong Mesh 1.2 Is Here With Embedded OPA Support, FIPS 140-2 Compliance and Multi-Zone Authentication

Kong Mesh 1.2 Is Here With Embedded OPA Support, FIPS 140-2 Compliance and Multi-Zone Authentication
API AuthenticationMarch 9, 2021

We are truly excited to release Kong Mesh 1.2 today and introduce three new security capabilities that make it the most secure enterprise service mesh available today. Kong Mesh is built on open source Kuma which Kong created in 2019 and has since donated it to the CNCF . Kuma is a universal…

Marco Palladino

How OAuth2 Authorization Works: Kong API Gateway 4 Step Tutorial

Kong Gateway Oauth2
API GatewayMarch 8, 2021

In this tutorial, I'm going to walk through adding OAuth2 authorization and authentication to your service with the Kong API Gateway OAuth2 plugin . First, I'll cover the fundamentals. If you're already familiar with how Kong Gateway and OAuth2 work, skip ahead to the tutorial . Interconnected.…

Aapo Talvensaari
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