PRESS RELEASE. PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 17, 2024 /PRNewswire/ - Salt Security, the leading API security company, today announced multiple advancements in discovery, posture management and AI-based threat protection to the industry leading Salt Security API Protection Platform.
Salt leapfrogs traditional posture management by providing the industry's first API posture governance engine delivering operationalized API governance and threat detection across organizations at scale.
Industry's first API posture governance engine - Which helps organizations minimize risk on their API first journey, by having the ability to author corporate standards for API posture, and assess compliance with those standards, along with industry best practices, and regulatory requirements.
Unlike typical API security solutions that focus primarily on detection and mitigation of threats, Salt's platform introduces the first-ever engine dedicated to API posture governance.
The new functionality helps ensure that all API lifecycle stakeholders are in sync and security standards are followed as an API makes its way through its lifecycle.
New API filtering and querying capabilities - Which provides context rich API asset discovery and management, helping organizations mine more intelligence from their discovered API assets.
Enhanced behavioral threat response capabilities - Which will provide SecOps personnel with the capability to more effectively prioritize, triage, and analyze API related security events, and drastically reduce mean time to respond and resolve.
More API sprawl means more opportunity for threat actors targeting APIs.
This trend will continue in 2024, as evidenced by Salt Security's latest State of API Security Report, Q1 2023, which found a 400% increase in unique API attackers this last year and its State of API Security for Financial Services and Insurance Report where 92% of respondents say they have experienced a significant security issue in production APIs over the past year, with nearly one out of five have suffered an API security breach.
The integration of this advanced threat detection with API asset intelligence equips security teams with the tools to rapidly and effectively address API-related security events.
The platform's enhanced integrations with application security testing platforms, data enrichment through its public API, and advanced outbound integrations are designed to ensure that API security is not a standalone effort but an integrated part of the broader security infrastructure.
All of these improvements help organizations more easily share and operationalize Salt's API asset and threat intelligence with existing security technology investments.
More API sprawl means more opportunity for threat actors targeting APIs and this trend will only continue in 2024.
According to the Salt Labs State of API Security Report, Q1 2023, 94% of organizations experienced security problems in production APIs in the past year, and an unfortunate 59% have experienced application rollout delays resulting from security issues identified in APIs.
The Salt posture governance engine captures API data with ease, simplifying how organizations share and respond to API threat intelligence.
Unlike other API governance solutions, the Salt AI-based runtime engine pulls from the largest data lake in order to continuously train the engine.
Salt is the only API security company to deliver AI-based API security, advanced discovery and innovative posture gap analysis, which is needed to unlock the intelligence discovered within APIs.
Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application.
Its patented API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks.
By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and hardening APIs.
This Cyber News was published on www.darkreading.com. Publication date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 22:10:15 +0000