Policies in MuleSoft

Policies help you to impose security regulations, control traffic, transform data, and improve the usability of an API. It’s important to know about policies, as they are quite easy and efficient to apply. They are predefined and can also be tailored as per your organizational needs.

Let’s now learn about the out-of-the-box policies in MuleSoft. The following policies are sorted as per their categories – that is, Security, Compliance, Transformation, Quality of Service, and Troubleshooting. We will also study in brief custom policies in MuleSoft.

Security

In this category, the policies mainly emphasize securing the API by means of authentication and authorization. Security policies protect an API from various security threats and attacks. Let’s learn about them in brief:

• Basic Authentication – Simple: This is the simplest of all the security policies, which helps you authenticate your application using a username...