Application security is essential in any IT architecture. With software and applications deployed across multiple clouds, data centers, and architectures, today’s IT environments are complex and continue to expand at a rapid pace. Securely exposing mission-critical assets and building connectivity between disparate data sources is a top priority for improving visibility and supporting digital transformation. Secure, scalable integration is essential for delivering new experiences, services, and products to customers. Furthermore, 62% of cybersecurity professionals reported an increase in their workloads, while 38% also reported being understaffed, leading to many feelings of burnout.
The IBM DataPower Gateway X3 is the latest application gateway appliance from IBM, building on a long history of DataPower appliances custom built for securing, integrating, and automating applications and services. The X3 is designed to extend IBM DataPower’s capabilities with improved performance, security and usability features. IBM DataPower Gateway X3 equips businesses with a powerful application gateway to protect, control, optimize, integrate,and automate modern, traditional and hybrid cloud workloads.
Protecting our clients’ assets is core to our focus at IBM. The DataPower Gateway X3 is custom built for robust security and integration, and protects applications and services while maintaining ease of use and low total cost of ownership. The DataPower Gateway X3 protects applications that leverage traditional web services, but it also extends a common security framework for capabilities like API management and real-time streaming services utilizing Kafka™ and GraphQL™.
IBM DataPower Gateway X3 is built to provide the following:
- Increase processing capacity, additional memory and network bandwidth (as compared to the X2) to help alleviate bottlenecks and achieve the most efficient transactional processing.
- Tamper resistance, high security cryptographic operations and message and access protection, offering enterprise-grade security in a hardened physical appliance.
- Leverage integration capabilities that connect modern event-based and API workloads with other traditional services.
- Optimize web management interfaces for building DataPower services that helps improve ease of use and enhances developer productivity.
The DataPower Gateway helps enable a common security framework for on-premises, on cloud, or a combination of both in a hybrid environment. For instance, the new DataPower Gateway X3 appliance can be deployed at the edge of an organization’s network, fighting unwanted access and denial of service attacks and optimizing routing across the network.Used in conjunction with DataPower Virtual Edition, this same level of protection can be extended to cloud deployments, allowing a common and efficient application security infrastructure across all environments.
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