The Cequence Bridge is one of the data plane components for the Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) platform. The core functionality of Cequence Bridge is to receive incoming HTTP transaction data, transform that data into a standard format that the Cequence UAP platform uses, and transmit the transformed data to the Cequence UAP platform. Cequence Bridge also enables you to specify sensitive data patterns to mask, and to filter traffic according to your requirements.

Architecture

You can deploy Cequence Bridge using a Helm chart, as a Docker container, or as an Azure serverless app.

The Cequence Bridge consists of a producer and a consumer. The producer writes HTTP transaction data from the API being protected to a shared directory in the pod. The consumer component reads the transaction data from the shared directory, transforms the data to the standard Cequence UAP platform format, and transmits the transformed data to the Cequence UAP platform for analysis. You can configure the consumer component to group transactions into batches of configurable size before transmission.