Secure Workload OpenAPIs

This chapter introduces the extensive capabilities of OpenAPI within Cisco Secure Workload. It explains OpenAPI's role in facilitating RESTful API interactions, emphasizing its secure digest-based authentication scheme. This scheme governs access to functionalities like policy management and system configurations. To authenticate, users must log into Secure Workload, generate an API key and secret, and utilize the Secure Workload API SDK for JSON-formatted REST requests.

Additionally, the chapter elaborates on API endpoints that support essential operations such as policy analysis, enforcement, and automatic policy discovery. It explains how APIs can analyze current policy sets and how enforcement endpoints help implement firewall rules across hosts. Advanced features like automatic policy discovery highlight the automated process of identifying and generating policies based on specific criteria.