Innovator Spotlight: Salt Security

In a world where APIs have become integral to the digital and technical experience, they also represent a significant security risk, often flying under the radar of traditional security solutions. During my conversation with Nick Rago, VP of Product Strategy at Salt Security, he emphasized that many organizations are unaware of the threats lurking within their API environments. Salt Security steps in to solve problems organizations don’t even know exist by delivering comprehensive API security across the entire API lifecycle — from discovery to posture management to runtime protection.

Salt Security offers the industry’s leading API Protection Platform, designed to provide visibility, protection, and actionable insights. The platform uses AI and machine learning to detect anomalies and threats that could compromise sensitive data. It ensures continuous API discovery, protecting against evolving threats by analyzing API traffic, monitoring user behavior, and providing real-time threat intelligence.

Salt is renowned for helping organizations harden their APIs by identifying vulnerabilities that traditional tools often miss. By leveraging a vast data lake of API behavior patterns, Salt can track API activity over time, making it easier to detect drawn-out and complex attack attempts. The platform offers a streamlined, easy-to-use interface, with customizable policies and actionable insights to secure APIs across all environments.

One of Salt Security’s key customer success stories is Finastra, a global leader in financial technology. Finastra required robust API protection for its FusionFabric.cloud service, which powers its banking applications. With the help of Salt Security, Finastra was able to:

• Prevent account takeover and application exploitation attacks.
• Gain detailed visibility into sensitive data exposures through APIs.
• Ensure compliance by offering regulators the necessary transparency into API security​.

By integrating Salt into their CI/CD workflows, Finastra was also able to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities early in the development process, ensuring APIs were secure before deployment. This not only improved security but also significantly enhanced their compliance posture, providing peace of mind across their API ecosystem.

Salt Security’s platform is trusted by numerous industry leaders, including organizations in finance, healthcare, and retail. The platform’s ability to provide dynamic API discovery and continuous monitoring makes it a critical tool for businesses that depend on APIs for their most sensitive operations. Whether it’s preventing API attacks or meeting stringent compliance requirements, Salt Security helps organizations stay ahead of emerging threats.

For more information about how Salt Security can protect your APIs, visit their website.

About the Author

Kylie Amison is a proud alumnus of George Mason University where she obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Cybersecurity Engineering with a minor in intelligence analysis and on call reporter for Cyber Defense Magazine

She is working full time at a leading mobile security company as an Application Security Analyst where her main tasking involves pen-testing mobile applications, secure mobile application development, and contributing to exciting projects and important initiatives that are consistently highlighted throughout the security industry.

In addition, Kylie contributed to a startup company as a cybersecurity software developer where she was the lead developer on one of the company’s products; a geopolitical threat intelligence engine that combines a broad assortment of metrics and NLP sentiment analysis to calculate nuanced and real-time threat scores per nation state. Contributing to this initiative has been pivotal in her knowledge of creating secure software and has given her the opportunity to not only develop her first product, but to also start her own startup company, productizing the software and capabilities created in her threat intelligence engine. She is presently co-founder and CTO of Xenophon Analytics.

Throughout all of her experiences and coursework, she has gained essential skills in secure software development, penetration testing, mobile security and a plethora of coding languages. She has further aspirations of going back to school to get a graduate degree in the field of digital forensics and cybersecurity.

Beyond academics and professional life, Kylie enjoys watching anime, reading, and doing anything with nature involved. When asked her ultimate goal in life, she responded with “My goal in life is to learn every single day, and I am proud to be doing just that.”