Salt Security Continues to Innovate as Leader in API Security

The API security landscape is changing rapidly, and cybercriminals are becoming increasingly sophisticated. According to the Salt Labs State of API Security Report 2024, API security incidents have more than doubled in the past 12 months, while API usage is rapidly increasing. Organizations are finding it challenging to keep up with the threats associated with expanding API ecosystems and fully understand their complex behavioral attributes.

In response to these challenges, Salt Security, a leader in the API Security market, is excited to announce its Q2 2024 Innovation Launch. This launch introduces groundbreaking features that redefine API posture governance and empower organizations to secure their APIs across their entire lifecycle proactively.

Key Innovations:

Panoramic Discovery with eBPF and Salt Surface: This enhanced API discovery functionality extends governance visibility by improving the discovery of API traffic, vulnerabilities, and sensitive data, even in encrypted and complex environments. It provides unparalleled visibility into all API traffic, including shadow and zombie APIs, enabling organizations to uncover and address vulnerabilities before attackers can exploit them.

Salt Posture Governance Policy Hub: This improvement allows organizations to easily set up, customize, and enforce API security standards at every stage of development. It uses pre-built governance rules and allows for the creation of custom rules to fit specific security or compliance needs. This guarantees that both next-generation applications and GenAI initiatives follow industry best practices and internal security policies.

Full Lifecycle Posture Governance: The Salt Security platform has been updated to assist organizations in implementing API posture governance at an earlier stage. The platform now allows organizations to effectively identify security posture noncompliance and set up posture validation checks during the design and testing phases of an API in addition to the production phase. This is made possible through new ecosystem enhancements, integrations, and improved in-platform posture validation functionality. This holistic approach ensures that Salt's Posture Governance Engine enables the reduction of risk at every stage of an API's lifecycle.

LLM-Powered Attacker Insights for Rapid Response: Salt has created an innovation using a custom-built Large Language Model (LLM) to translate complex attack patterns into clear, concise, actionable insights. This allows security teams to comprehend the attacker's identity, tactics, and intent rapidly, thus significantly expediting incident response and remediation efforts.

Advanced Detection of Automated Attacks: Salt Security's platform uses advanced detection methods to distinguish between abnormal traffic generated by automated scanners, bots, and human attackers. It accurately determines whether traffic from these sources is malicious. This capability offers a thorough understanding of attack motivations, allowing security teams to prioritize and address the most significant threats.

Benefits of Salt Security's Q2 2024 Innovations

• Proactive API Security: Make the shift from reactive to proactive API security to prevent attacks before they occur.
• Unparalleled Visibility: Obtain complete visibility into all API traffic, including encrypted and shadow APIs.
• AI-Powered Insights: Utilize the power of AI to understand and respond to sophisticated attacks quickly.
• DevSecOps Enablement: Empower developers to identify and address vulnerabilities early in the development cycle.
• Reduced Risk and Improved Compliance: Safeguard sensitive data and ensure compliance with industry regulations.

Conclusion

Salt Security's Q2 2024 Innovation Launch establishes a new standard for API security, enabling organizations to achieve comprehensive API posture governance throughout the lifecycle. These cutting-edge features empower organizations to proactively secure their APIs, gain unparalleled visibility, and outsmart even the most sophisticated attackers.

If you would like to learn more about Salt and how we can help you on your API Security journey through discovery, posture governance, and run-time threat protection, please contact us or schedule a demo today!