Salt Security

Salt Security provides a best-in-class, AI-powered API security platform designed to protect the applications and data that are the core of modern business. In an era where APIs are the number one attack vector, traditional security measures like Web Application Firewalls (WAFs) and API Gateways are no longer sufficient. Salt Security addresses this gap by offering a comprehensive solution that covers the entire API lifecycle, from development to runtime. It leverages a patented big data engine and a highly trained Large Language Model (LLM) to create a baseline of normal API behavior, enabling it to detect and stop even the most sophisticated attacks that exploit business logic flaws. The platform is trusted by leading global enterprises to illuminate their entire API fabric, identify vulnerabilities, and protect against breaches.

How to use Salt Security

Getting started with Salt Security is designed to be seamless and provide rapid value. The process typically follows these steps:

1. Request a Demo: The initial step is to schedule a personalized demo through the Salt Security website. This allows their team to understand your specific environment and security needs.
2. Seamless Deployment: The platform is deployed without requiring any agents, code changes, or complex configurations. It integrates with your existing infrastructure and starts collecting API traffic data almost immediately.
3. Automatic Discovery: Within hours of deployment, Salt Security's AI engine automatically discovers and catalogs all your APIs, including documented, undocumented (shadow), and deprecated (zombie) APIs. It provides a complete and continuously updated inventory.
4. Gain Visibility and Insights: The platform analyzes the discovered APIs to identify security posture gaps, misconfigurations, and sensitive data exposure (e.g., PII, financial data). It presents these findings in an intuitive dashboard with actionable remediation guidance.
5. Real-time Threat Protection: Once the baseline is established, Salt Security continuously monitors API traffic in real-time. Its AI engine detects anomalous behavior and blocks malicious actors before they can cause damage, protecting against threats like those in the OWASP API Security Top 10.
6. Integrate and Remediate: The insights and alerts can be integrated into your existing security and development workflows (e.g., SIEM, SOAR, ticketing systems) to streamline remediation and foster collaboration between security and development teams.

Core Features of Salt Security

• Complete API Discovery: Continuously and automatically discovers all APIs across your environments, providing a comprehensive and always-current inventory.
• AI-Powered Threat Protection: Utilizes a patented, big data engine and LLM to baseline normal API behavior and detect/block sophisticated attacks in real-time.
• Security Posture Governance: Identifies posture gaps, misconfigurations, and sensitive data exposure, providing actionable insights for remediation and hardening your security posture.
• Runtime Protection: Provides dynamic, adaptive protection against attacks by analyzing API traffic and identifying malicious behavior that bypasses traditional security tools.
• Shift-Left Security Integration: Offers insights for developers to identify and fix security issues early in the development lifecycle, preventing vulnerabilities from reaching production.
• Compliance and Reporting: Helps organizations meet and prove compliance with regulatory standards like GDPR, HIPAA, CCPA, and PCI DSS through detailed reporting and analysis.
• Patented Attack Blocking: The only company with a patent for blocking API attacks, providing proven and effective defense against real-world threats.

Use Cases for Salt Security

Salt Security is essential for any organization that relies on APIs. Key use cases include:

• Preventing Data Breaches: Protecting sensitive customer data (PII, financial info, health records) from being exfiltrated via vulnerable APIs.
• Securing Digital Transformation: Ensuring security as companies move to microservices architectures, cloud-native applications, and increase their reliance on APIs for business operations.
• Protecting Against Business Logic Flaws: Identifying and stopping attackers who exploit flaws in the application's business logic, which traditional tools are blind to.
• Achieving Regulatory Compliance: Demonstrating and maintaining compliance with data protection regulations by having full visibility and control over API data flows.
• Securing GenAI Deployments: Managing the rapid proliferation and unique security risks associated with APIs created by or for Generative AI applications.

Advantages of Salt Security

Salt Security stands out as the market leader for several reasons:

• Pioneering Expertise: As the creator of the API security market, Salt possesses deep domain knowledge and a mature, battle-tested platform.
• Context-Rich AI: The platform's AI provides rich context for every API, reducing false positives and delivering actionable insights rather than just raw data.
• Holistic Lifecycle Coverage: It is the only solution that governs and protects APIs across the entire lifecycle, from build to runtime.
• Rapid Time-to-Value: Delivers visibility and critical insights within hours of a quick, agentless deployment.
• Proven Effectiveness: Trusted by leading global enterprises across various industries, including finance, healthcare, and retail, to stop real-world attacks.

Pricing and Plans

Salt Security's pricing is tailored to the specific needs of each organization and is not publicly listed on their website. To obtain pricing information, prospective customers are encouraged to request a personalized demo. The pricing model is typically based on factors such as the volume of API traffic, the number of applications being protected, and the specific features required. This customized approach ensures that the plan aligns with the scale and complexity of the customer's environment.