API security is becoming an increasingly more prominent discussion for security teams. Notably, API security incidents have more than doubled within the past 12 months, according to recent research. The research also found that API usage is rapidly accelerating, with two-thirds now managing over 100 APIs every day. Evidently, organisations continue to struggle to keep pace with the threats associated with expanding API ecosystems, along with trying to accurately comprehend their complex behavioural attributes.
With the future in mind, API security company Salt Security have enhanced their API Protection Platform offerings, with API discovery, posture governance, and threat protection across organisations. These latest innovations empower organisations to proactively govern their API posture, gain unprecedented visibility into encrypted and unencrypted API traffic, and outsmart sophisticated bad actors with quick, AI-powered insights.
Earlier this year, Salt became the first API security vendor to launch a posture governance engine, designed to deliver operationalised API governance and threat detection across organisations at scale. These innovative capabilities marked a revolutionary change for API security, enabling organisations to establish, educate and enforce API posture standards throughout the application and API lifecycle. Building on such innovation, Salt has further enhanced its capabilities in the posture governance domain and today introduces several new advanced features that are redefining next-generation application security, including the posture governance policy hub, full lifecycle posture governance, and LLM-powered attacker insights.
Roey Eliyahu, CEO of Salt Security, said: “Growing API ecosystems are making it increasingly challenging for companies to effectively monitor and track all activity within their API ecosystems, and quickly identify malicious intent. At Salt, our mission is to provide organisations with the most comprehensive API security. An offering that not only provides rapid threat detection but also provides organisations with the means to proactively improve their posture to plug security gaps before they can be exploited. Our latest platform innovations build on this, providing customers with additional visibility into their API traffic and the AI-powered insights required to quickly mitigate threats.”
