Global policies are a set of policies that are associated globally to all APIs or the selected set of APIs. Global policies are supported for both SOAP and REST APIs.

By associating policies globally to all APIs or the selected set of APIs, the administrator can ensure that a set of policies is applied to the selected APIs by default. The administrator can, for example, define a global policy that attaches a WS-Security (WSS) authentication to all SOAP API endpoints within a specific IP range. In this case, any client request from the specific IP range automatically inherits the security configuration defined in the global policy for SOAP APIs.