Salt Security

Additional Info

Websitehttps://salt.security/
Company size (employees)100 to 499
Headquarters RegionNorth America

Overview

Launched in 2016, Salt Security pioneered and continues to lead the API security market. Its flagship offering, the Salt Security 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. With its patented approach to blocking today’s low-and-slow API attacks, only Salt provides the adaptive intelligence needed to protect APIs. By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context with real-time analysis and continuous insights into API threats and vulnerabilities, including those outlined in the OWASP API Security Top 10 list.

Salt’s posture governance engine also delivers operationalized API governance and threat detection across organizations at scale. Unlike other API governance solutions, Salt Security’s AI-based runtime engine pulls from the largest data lake in order to continuously train the engine. Salt supports organizations through the entire API journey from discovery, to posture governance and threat protection.

Since its founding, Salt Security has grown to be a company with more than 250 employees and $271 million dollars in funding from top Venture Capital firms including Sequoia Capital and CapitalG – firms that have also backed public companies including Palo Alto Networks, Check Point, Lyft, Kayak and more. Today, the Salt platform protects more than 100 global enterprises across different industries, including Siemens, American Airlines, Aon, Zoom Communications, AstraZeneca, Ally Bank, New American Funding, Berkshire Bank, City National Bank, Finastra, Markel, Jemena, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, and many others.

Demand for API security has surged, with businesses needing to protect the APIs driving their digital transformation, application mobilization, and other IT modernization initiatives. In the past 18 months, Salt has:
-Doubled its customer base
-Added extended partnerships with CrowdStrike and Amazon
-Launched a new and industry-first posture governance platform

How we are different

Salt Security leads the API security market with the most funding, highest valuation, most customers, and deepest penetration among Fortune and Global 500 enterprises. Its API Protection Platform has been in the market the longest, so its algorithms are the most advanced.


Salt has established a variety of partnerships and programs all with the objective to make its platform more accessible and operational to its customers including:
- Most recently, Salt expanded its partnership with CrowdStrike with the availability of its Salt Security API Protection Platform for purchase in the CrowdStrike Marketplace, allowing CrowdStrike Falcon customers to discover, buy and integrate Salt’s platform to gain a 360-degree view of API security risks, better equipping them to secure their APIs across the lifecycle.
- In June 2023, Salt announced its partnership and bi-directional platform integration with Wiz. This partnership provides joint customers with a robust and holistic understanding of API threats and vulnerabilities that spans both application and cloud environments.
- In August 2023, Salt announced the Salt Technical Ecosystem Partner (STEP) program to accelerate the integration of Salt with leading API ecosystem technologies including DAST leaders Bright Security and Invicti Security and IAST leader Contrast Security.


The Salt Security API Protection Platform is the only patented vendor solution that uses cloud-scale big data combined with AI and ML to baseline millions of users and APIs to detect the reconnaissance activity of bad actors and block attackers. Salt also provides the industry's first API posture governance engine, helping organizations govern their API-first journeys using API intelligence to discover and effectively manage API assets, and ensuring that corporate standards and industry best practices are followed throughout an API's lifecycle.


Salt is also dedicated to driving awareness of API security in the market, supported directly by active outreach efforts and Salt Labs research.


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