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gateway

Gateway is a network or application component that mediates and controls traffic between different networks, protocols, or domains, enabling interoperability, policy enforcement, and secure connectivity across security zones, organizational boundaries, and hybrid or multi-cloud environments in enterprise architectures.

  • 70 articles
  • 166 companies
  • Most covered: Netskope, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Aviz Networks

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166 companies that coverage ties to the term, listed by how often, each linked to its own record.

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curl -X POST https://mcp.decisioninsights.ai/api/mcp-public \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -H "accept: application/json, text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"id":1,"jsonrpc":"2.0","method":"tools/call","params":{"arguments":{"slug":"gateway"},"name":"di_get_term"}}'

REST

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