Dec. 9, 2024 – Technological improvement! The API gateway makes access to the APIs within the billing platform even more efficient while also enhancing the security of sensitive data.
An API gateway acts as a connection point between individual services and protects sensitive data through various security mechanisms. These include central authentication, authorisation, monitoring and more.
Specifically, the powercloud API gateway is a technical component that runs at the edge of the IT infrastructure and acts as an interface between the clients and the backend services. It channels all API communication so that powercloud customers and partners have a new central entry point for billing and do not have to deal with the endpoints of the various services, which increases user-friendliness.
Even more secure access to APIs
The rollout of the powercloud API Gateway goes hand in hand with the introduction of a central identity provider and upgrades the billing platform’s standard authentication to the industry-specific security standard ‘OAuth 2.0’. This strengthens security in addition to the existing ‘SSL/TLS encryption’ and simplifies authentication within the powercloud service landscape. By implementing these security mechanisms, the API gateway ensures that only authorised access takes place and that customer systems are protected against unauthorised access. It offers controlled access to APIs and prevents potential security gaps that could arise from direct communication between services.
The powercloud API gateway is now included as standard in the basic version of the powercloud SaaS licence. In future, there will be additional enhancements that offer even more flexibility and configuration options, such as:
- Self-service portal for configuring read and write permissions per endpoint
- Configuration of roles for grouping permissions
- Independent and unlimited creation and assignment of additional accesses. Customers can manage multiple users, restrict access rights and define roles
With the launch of the new API gateway, powercloud once again underlines its leading position as a modern, future-proof software provider for the energy industry and provides its customers with the highest technological standard.