Apigee
Overview
Apigee is APIs leader three times running. Apigee positioned highest for execution and completeness of vision in full lifecycle API management.
The Challenge
- Keeping track of APIs is difficult, even if they’re used only by internal developers
- Making APIs available to outside developers opens up your ecosystem to millions of calls and threats
- Ensuring APIs can scale adequately can help create a new revenue stream
- Maintaining API version control, securing, and managing APIs puts an enormous strain on IT
The Solution
Create, test, publish, and produce APIs from a single environment, and automatically generate API documentation
Maintain tight version control, so developers are always accessing the correct version of any API at all times
Provision API access as easily as provisioning application access and define access with flexible policies based on user profile, groups, network, client, and consent
Update or revoke access to APIs instantly with user permissions based on user profile and status
Meter usage to ensure that developers are accessing APIs only as often as agreements allow
Create, maintain, and audit API access policies from one user-friendly console—no custom coding required
Grant appropriate access to APIs with Okta’s modern, identity-driven approach to API access management handles authentication from a variety of apps, protocols, and directories (including Active Directory and SAML) and grants the appropriate access tokens based on policies set up through the simple Okta admin UI.
Centralize API management with the Apigee API Platform. It provides tools for managing the entire API lifecycle—from design through implementation, management, and monetization—in one place. Build, secure, manage, scale, analyze, and connect all APIs, making them safely available to all authorized users, and create the foundation for new sources of revenue and growth.
Protect your APIs with Okta's centralized, identity-driven access management and Apigee's enterprise-grade security, traffic management, and threat protection. Together Okta and Apigee help ensure that APIs, apps, ecosystems, and data stay safe—without blocking legitimate access to developers and users.
Put control back in the hands of IT with powerful tools for version control, access metering, and generating documentation. The Okta + Apigee integration puts control of the process back in the hands of IT, while giving developers everything they need to build, maintain, secure, and scale their APIs.
Capabilities
Access
- OIDC OpenID Connect is an extension to the OAuth standard that provides for exchanging Authentication data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP) and does not require credentials to be passed from the Identity Provider to the application.
- WS-Federation
- SAML Security Assertion Markup Language is an open standard for exchanging authentication and authorization data between an identity provider (IdP) and a service provider (SP) that does not require credentials to be passed to the service provider.
- SWA Secure Web Authentication is a Single Sign On (SSO) system developed by Okta to provide SSO for apps that don't support proprietary federated sign-on methods, SAML or OIDC.
Provisioning
- Create Creates or links a user in the application when assigning the app to a user in Okta.
- Update Okta updates a user's attributes in the app when the app is assigned. Future attribute changes made to the Okta user profile will automatically overwrite the corresponding attribute value in the app.
- Deactivate Deactivates a user's account in the app when it is unassigned in Okta or their Okta account is deactivated. Accounts can be reactivated if the app is reassigned to a user in Okta.
- Sync Password Push either the users Okta password or a randomly generated password to the app. This feature is not required for all federated applications as user authentication takes place in Okta, however some apps still require a password.
- Group Push Push existing Okta groups and their memberships to the application. Groups can then be managed in Okta and changes are reflected in the application.
- Group Linking Link Okta groups to existing groups in the application. Simplifies onboarding an app for Okta provisioning where the app already has groups configured.
- Schema Discovery Import the user attribute schema from the application and reflect it in the Okta app user profile. Allows Okta to use custom attributes you have configured in the application that were not included in the basic app schema.
- Attribute Sourcing The application can be defined as the source of truth for a full user profile or as the source of truth for specific attributes on a user profile.
- Attribute Writeback When the application is used as a profile master it is possible to define specific attributes to be sourced from another location and written back to the app. For example the user profile may come from Active Directory with phone number sourced from another app and written back to Active Directory.