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How to secure communication between Apigee Edge Proxy and Backend service?

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I have read a lot of documentation about configuring apigee's proxies and it seems there are not many options to secure your backend endpoint (which is behind the proxy)

  • with white-list policy - in that way backend endpoint will accept requests only from apigee proxy and deny everything else;
  • two-way TLS as described here

Which one is a best practice? Is there any other way to secure backend endpoint? Please, share your experience and, if possible, point me to some resources I can read about security measures you have applied.

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Here's the documentation describing the configuration of two-way TLS: http://docs.apigee.com/api-services/content/configuring-ssl-edge-backend-service#configuringtwowaytl...

I believe there is a video; I'll try to track it down if someone doesn't beat me to it.

You can combine whitelisting with two-way TLS if you wish to add that extra bit to the equation; it's not a one vs. the other sort of thing.

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