Unified Governance of Hetereogenous Environments
Ensure high-quality, consistent APIs while maintaining security and compliance across your enterprise. Leverage advanced policy management and robust access control to meet even the most complex API requirements.
Why it matters
API governance is important to gain control and visibility over how API developers manage their APIs, ensuring consistent application of data compliance, standard authentication, rate limiting, and providing observability into costs and usage. A proper governance framework for APIs would help you to:
Standardize API design
Enforce established standards for all API developers
Control
API growth
Eliminate redundant APIs and reduce
API sprawl
Secure APIs by default
Block unsecure APIs to ensure production security and compliance
Monitor compliance
Provide dashboards for insights into API usage and compliance
Protect data and users
Implement guardrails to ensure regulatory compliance and data protection
WSO2 API Platform includes a dedicated, built-in governance framework that provides the capability to set and enforce policies and standards for how APIs are designed, documented, secured, and used within an enterprise.
Key capabilities
Improve API quality, security and lifecycle control, while also empowering both administrators and
API teams to maintain compliance collaboratively.
Define rulesets
Define a collection of rules to be enforced on APIs covering aspects such as security, compliance, performance and operational guidelines.
Define policies
Define policies containing a collection of rulesets that can be applied on different groups of APIs based on organizational needs.
Monitor compliance
- Produce a detailed compliance dashboard to organization administrators for tracking policy adherence, identifying violations and taking corrective actions.
- Provide access to a dedicated compliance section for API developers to monitor and address governance issues for an API during development.