The key to making APIs both useful to third-party developers and manageable for your staff is the creation of a layer of abstraction or indirection between what you provide internally and what third parties see externally. With the Layer 7 SecureSpan Gateway, this layer of abstraction can be easily implemented and then managed with policy-based controls that specify how the APIs get accessed, changed, tracked and translated to ensure compatibility with your partners development tools and target platforms. Layer 7's comprehensive API Management Suite, provides enterprise-strength security, access control and threat protection. The API Proxy allows enterprises to choose how they expose their APIs to internal resources and external third parties via policy-based controls that determine how APIs get accessed, changed, tracked and translated to accommodate IT infrastructure, partner development tools, mobile devices and more.