Tetrate Service Bridge

Tetrate Service Bridge (TSB) from tetrate.io is an 'edge-to-workload' application management platform.  It provides a service mesh management plane designed  to manage and configure networking, security, and observability.  The TSB works at the backend 'edge', at cluster ingress, between the workloads within a Kubernetes cluster.   The mesh management plane configures gateway and intra-cluster service connectivity. 

Tetrate managed environments provide an excellent opportunity for integration with Cequence monitoring and mitigation components. Typically a 'hybrid' approach is used in which the Cequence Defender is spun up in the same hosting space as the TSB, and Bot Defense and API Sentinel are SaaS based. 

Cequence Integration Architecture

The Cequence Unified API Protection (UAP) platform is comprised of a control plane and a data plane. The UAP system that includes Cequence API Sentinel and Bot Defense makes up the control plane, whereas the Cequence Defender, responsible for processing traffic, makes up the data plane.

In a hybrid model the control and analysis components of the Cequence UAP analysis, as well as the UI components, are provided as SaaS services, while Cequence Defender is deployed within the application cluster.  

In a typical hybrid Cequence/Tetrate managed environment the Tetrate Service Bridge is configured to route incoming network application traffic through Cequence Defender where it is quickly analyzed and, if safe, forwarded onto the destination application. 

When mitigation policies are enabled, the Defender actively mitigates the bad traffic issuing a preconfigured mitigation response back to the requesting client.  The Defender asynchronously sends network metadata to the Cequence UAP system that then populates the Bot Defense and API Sentinel dashboards with the traffic analysis.

Additional Information

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