In today's data-driven world, the ability to access and share information is paramount. Businesses thrive on connecting systems, empowering teams, and delivering rich experiences to customers. But this connectivity comes with a critical challenge: how do you expose your valuable data without exposing your business to risk?
Building a secure data access layer from scratch is a monumental task. It requires deep expertise in authentication, authorization, rate-limiting, and threat prevention—all complex infrastructure that distracts from your core business logic.
This is where Searches.do changes the game. Our platform is designed not just to turn complex data queries into simple APIs, but to do so with a security-first mindset. Let's explore the key security features that allow you to deliver powerful Services-as-Software, safely and confidently.
The most fundamental security principle of Searches.do is abstraction. You never expose your database, your file system, or your internal microservices directly to the outside world. Instead, you expose a purpose-built Search Agent.
Think of a search agent like find-customer-by-email. This agent is a piece of "Business-as-Code" that performs one specific, well-defined task. The consumer of the API simply provides the required parameters:
{
"searchId": "find-customer-by-email",
"parameters": {
"email": "jane.doe@example.com"
}
}
The agent's logic, defined by you in our TypeScript SDK, is the only code that runs. It retrieves the necessary data and returns a clean, structured result. The API consumer has zero ability to run arbitrary queries, snoop around your database schema, or access data they aren't explicitly permitted to see. This strict encapsulation is your first and strongest line of defense, dramatically reducing your attack surface.
Every search agent you deploy on Searches.do is automatically protected by the .do platform's secure API gateway. This gateway manages the difficult, low-level security tasks so you don't have to.
How do you ensure only the right people or systems can call your APIs? Our gateway handles this out of the box. It manages API key generation, validation, and permissions, ensuring that every single request is authenticated (we know who is asking) and authorized (we know what they're allowed to do) before it ever reaches your search agent's logic.
Malicious actors or buggy client applications can easily overload an unprotected API with a flood of requests, leading to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack and costly downtime. The .do gateway provides built-in rate-limiting and throttling to prevent such abuse, ensuring your data services remain stable, responsive, and available for legitimate use.
One of the most powerful features of Searches.do is the ability to aggregate data from multiple sources into a single response. Your search agent might need to:
Your handler function contains all this complex, multi-step logic. However, the consumer of your API sees none of it. They simply call a single, secure endpoint and receive a unified result. This encapsulation means the internal architecture of your data sources remains a complete black box, shielding it from external probing and simplifying your security model. You can swap out backend systems at will without ever changing the secure API contract.
As our FAQ states, you define search agents using a simple TypeScript SDK. The choice of TypeScript is deliberate. As a strongly-typed language, it helps you eliminate a wide range of common bugs and vulnerabilities at the development stage.
By enforcing strict types for your input parameters, you significantly mitigate the risk of injection attacks. Instead of manually concatenating strings to build a raw SQL query (a major security anti-pattern), you work with structured, validated objects. This encourages a safer, more robust development pattern by design, helping you write more secure code from the very first line.
Exposing data is no longer a choice between innovation and security. With Searches.do, they go hand-in-hand. By abstracting your data logic into secure search agents and putting them behind a managed, enterprise-grade API gateway, we offload the heavy lifting of security infrastructure.
You can focus on what you do best: defining your unique business logic. We'll handle the rest.
Ready to transform your data queries into secure, scalable, and reusable APIs? Get started with Searches.do today!