Securing your API Connect Cloud with LDAP

Nisha Narayanan
Nov 6 · 1 min read

This is the main page of a series of articles focussed on explaining how you can secure your API Connect cloud with LDAP. LDAP is one of the most widely used protocols for user authentication. In scenarios where you have an existing LDAP deployment, you can easily leverage it to authenticate and on-board users to your IBM API Connect instance.

This series will cover a brief introduction to LDAP, how its used for user authentication and how you can secure your API Connect cloud with LDAP to meet your enterprise security needs. API Connect provides multiple login configurations for LDAP authentication, and articles in this series will also provide recommendations/examples on when you might want to use one type of configuration over another.

Below is the list of entries comprising this series:

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