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Secure Your APIs with Salt's API Security Platform.

APIs are carrying more and more sensitive organizational data than ever before. Salt is the only solution that governs and protects your APIs across the entire API Lifecycle.

API Proliferation is a Monster Problem.

APIs are built expressly to share a company’s most valuable data and services. This makes them a lucrative target for bad actors. We’ve already hit the tipping point — APIs are now THE way in.

Expanding Attack Surface

Not only are APIs proliferating through organizations, but they are carrying more and more sensitive information. This extends the potential attack surface, making applications and data more susceptible to breaches, unauthorized access, and other cyber threats that want access to the information.

GenAI Accelerates the Risk

Most developers use GenAI to increase productivity. From a security perspective, the benefit has an unintended consequence; super fast creation and increased volume of APIs makes it challenging to discover and secure those APIs. Legacy technologies couldn't keep up before and are hopeless today.

Regulatory & Compliance Pressures

The increase in APIs also brings heightened regulatory scrutiny. Ensuring compliance with data protection standards (like GDPR, HIPAA, etc.) becomes increasingly complex and critical. But a company's own policies are also under pressure with little technologies available to help.

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Not all API Security solutions are the same.

Salt created the API security market and stands above other solutions in ease of use, time to value and key functional areas. Only Salt delivers the below.

  • Seamless deployment, no agents, no code changes, no configuration
  • Complete and continuous AI-enabled discovery and risk assessment within hours
  • Out of the box policy templates that can be deployed in minutes to easily govern API posture
  • The only company with a patent for blocking API attacks

It only takes a few minutes to see the Salt difference.

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Groundbreaking Posture Governance

To keep pace with rapid API growth, Salt is the only solution with an integrated Policy Hub (like an app store for API governance policies) that allows you to deploy, track and manage policies in minutes.  You can create your own quickly or enable any of the dozens of pre-built policies based on real world usage across various industries. You can rest assured you are complying with all internal and external security standards

World-Leading Behavioral Threat Protection

Not all AI and ML systems are the same.  Salt not only models attacks but more importantly, determines intent. No other API security solution is capable of delivering intent insights. Why is this important?  With billions of API calls to sift through over extended periods of time, Salt is able to tell your team where to focus to reduce the risk to your organizations.

Unmatched Enterprise Scale

What does enterprise scale mean? It means your solution is able to scale past surface requirmenets to ensure you are deliveirng against the needs of the business. This scale includes privacy controls that adhere to all of the privacy regulations, granular access control based on roles and automated incidence response workflows.

Salt sees more than anyone else, so we stop more attacks than anyone else.

32% Fewer undocumeted APIs

19X Faster to resolution

88% Fewer alerts

75% Time savings for compliance

Gartner Peer Insights

“Easy to use and intuitive, as well as powerful in detecting possible security incidents, always updated with OWASP API Top 10.”

— IT Security and Risk Management, Retail Industry

“Best tool to secure and manage our API inventories in all stages.”

— IT, Software Industry

“Salt Security API protection platform has easy to navigate through interface and it has authorisation and authentication and also has realt time threat analysis and providing end to end encryption and doing security checkups for any threats in security.”

— IT, IT Services Industry

“Salt analyzed all our APIs including those developed in-house and by third-parties within a few hours of deployment and started providing us insights with immediate actionable steps to cover loopholes that were detected.”

—Engineering, Healthcare and Biotech Industry

G2

“Clear API visibility — identifies attacks and PII data that’s not supposed to be relayed.”

—CISO

“Excellent tool for API security and helpful, responsive support. Covers gaps in our WAF.”

—Senior Security Engineer

“Finding needles with Salt — informs us on our public API endpoints including potential threats.”

—Principal Cyber Engineer

Everyone says they do API security. Salt is the only one who really does.

In reality, most others do a portion of API security. But to remain relevant, get into a hot space, or grow their reach, vendors of all stripes are claiming they do API security. You've got the tough job of sorting through all the noise — you need to get clear on what API security really is and the architecture needed to do it right. Salt gives you complete API security.

OAS

Is OAS Enough For API Security?

Some of the ways development and security teams use the OAS and why it falls short when it comes to securing your APIs.

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Gateways

Securing API Gateways — Pros and Cons.

While API gateways play an important part in the overall API security strategy, they cannot protect against the top API threats, including those defined in the OWASP API Security Top 10.

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WAFs

Successful SQLi WAF Bypass Shows how WAFs Cannot Stop API-based Attacks.

See how WAFs perform against traditional app attacks and more sophisticated API attacks.

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The OWASP API Top 10 — a starting point

Understanding that attacks themselves are different when APIs are the target is an important starting point for learning how to defend against them. The game has changed — these attacks are rooted in finding business logic flaws, and most solutions aren't up to the task.

Chart of OWASP top-ten threats showing that Salt is the only solution to protect against them all.

Recognized as the leader in API Security.

Carrefour
Cathay Bank
Kingston Technology
Stryker
Vermeer
Hyundai
Finastra
Armis
Telefonica Brasil
Jemena
Mail Boxes Etc.
Coralogix
Augmedix

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