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Salt Continues to Lead API Security With Innovation to Protect GraphQL APIs

At Salt, we have a long track record of driving innovation – today we’re continuing that tradition with the news that the Salt platform now secures GraphQL APIs.

Chris Westphal
October 20, 2021

Salt is Leading the Pack in API Security

Salt is the only pure-play API security company to make the Market Leader category in the latest KuppingerCole Leadership Compass on API management and security.

Chris Westphal
September 13, 2021

Insights into Gartner’s Tips for Protecting APIs

Recently Gartner analysts Mark O'Neill and Dionisio Zumerle teamed up on a webinar titled API Security: Protect your APIs from Attacks and Data Breaches. Read on for highlights, insights and perspective on the session covering API security.

Chris Westphal
July 26, 2021

Open Banking - Security Implications of the Global Trend

APIs are at the core of open banking, enabling financial institutions to standardize how they create and connect to an ecosystem of providers to exchange financial data. To a large degree, open banking has ushered in a democratization of banking across the globe and this has all been possible thanks to APIs.‍

Chris Westphal
June 30, 2021

5 Takeaways from Gartner Report: API Insights for Software Engineering Leaders

With the proliferation of APIs in all modern applications, understanding the ins and outs of APIs is more critical than ever.

Chris Westphal
June 18, 2021

The Award Case is Filling Up

Today we’re thrilled to announce that Salt has added yet another award to the case. This one is a GOLD for the 2021 Globee Disruptor of the Year award.

Chris Westphal
June 16, 2021

Building API Context with a New Tech Talk Video Series

Today we’re kicking off a new tech talk video series called Building Context, where we’ll be covering a range of topics around APIs and API security.

Chris Westphal
April 23, 2021

3 Reasons You Might Be Failing at API Security

As APIs have increased in prominence and as a target for attacks, organizations have become more aware of the need for proper security, but as with adopting any new technology, misconceptions persist about how to get it right.

Chris Westphal
April 15, 2021

Stopping API Attacks: Columbo, Correlation, and Context

Columbo was a master of context. The lieutenant was famous for his catchphrase “Just one more thing,” heard countless times by suspects as he chipped away at a case, gathering small, obscure pieces of the puzzle and putting them together to form the bigger picture and ultimately solve the case.

Chris Westphal
March 8, 2021

Lessons from the FinTech Trenches Securing APIs at Finastra

On a recent webinar with Security Boulevard, we were fortunate to host Nir Valtman, Finastra head of product and data security, to share insights into his API security journey. You can view the entire session on the Salt YouTube channel, and here are some of the highlights from the discussion.

Chris Westphal
February 19, 2021

Three API Security Challenges Every Security Professional Should Be Prepared For

Changes to APIs create new challenges for security teams. See what should be top of mind for any security professional tasked with protecting APIs.

Chris Westphal
December 23, 2020

APIs Have Changed – and They’re Changing the Security Landscape

The reality is, APIs today are very different from the web APIs of the early 2000s, and these changes impact the way we need to think about the API security landscape.

Chris Westphal
December 18, 2020

Securing APIs – It’s Different Than Securing Apps

I recently tuned into a CISO panel discussion and one of the panelists said something that struck me – “Application security today is less about the applications and more about the APIs.”

Chris Westphal
November 24, 2020

Is OAS Enough For API Security?

The OpenAPI Specification (OAS) is a way to describe and create API documentation. Learn some of the ways dev and security teams use the OAS and why it falls short when it comes to securing your APIs.

Chris Westphal
November 19, 2020

Can API Security Be Wholly Solved in Development?

Organizations are working hard to “shift left” with security and improve the security of code. Learn why in APIs, improving security during build and initial deployment cannot provide the full answer.

Chris Westphal
November 13, 2020

ITProTV Technado Podcast With Roey Eliyahu

Salt Security co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu joined the Technado Podcast this week to discuss arguably one of the most vulnerable things security teams often overlook: APIs.

Chris Westphal
October 30, 2020

What Are JWTs And Are They Vulnerable To Attacks?

In episode 5 of API Security With A Pinch Of Salt, we talk about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs), an open standard (RFC 7519) that defines a compact and self-contained way for securely transmitting info between parties as a JSON object.

Chris Westphal
August 28, 2020

What Can Attackers Do With API Vulnerabilities?

Episode number 4 of API Security With A Pinch Of Salt is here. In this episode Chris and Ran talk about what attackers are going after when they target APIs and what they can do if they find and successfully exploit a vulnerability.

Chris Westphal
August 4, 2020

WAFs, What Are They Good For?

Get ready for episode number 3 of our video series called API Security With A Pinch Of Salt. In this episode, Adam and Chris answer the question - WAFs, what are they good for?

Chris Westphal
July 16, 2020

The Importance Of API Documentation

It’s time for episode number 2 of our video series called API Security With A Pinch Of Salt. In this episode, Adam, Chris and Ran dig into the topic of the importance of API documentation.

Chris Westphal
June 25, 2020

Securing API Gateways - Pros and Cons

Today we kick off a video series called API Security With A Pinch Of Salt where we dig deep into API security. In this first episode, Adam, Chris and Ran tackle the topic of using API Gateways for Security.

Chris Westphal
May 6, 2020

Salt Security API Protection Explained

Are you wondering what Salt Security does, what challenges we solve for, and how we do it? Check out this explainer video that answer all of those questions in just over one minute.

Chris Westphal
February 11, 2020

What Is The OWASP API Security Top 10

The Open Web Application Security Project has been around since 2001 and is best known for the OWASP Web Application Security Top 10 which has set the standard for how orgs have approached security to protect traditional web applications.

Chris Westphal
October 8, 2019

How Martial Arts Can Help You Eliminate API Vulnerabilities

In college, a good friend of mine got deeply involved in the martial art Aikido and instead of directly attacking, the defender would wait for a move from their opponent, like a lunge, and harness that momentum to take control.

Chris Westphal
August 21, 2019

Announcing Salt Security Integration With Kong API Gateway

At Salt Security one of our philosophies is to provide solutions that help simplify processes, and save time, rather than introduce additional complexities. This is especially important when it comes to security.

Chris Westphal
August 5, 2019

How to Control Top API Security Risks

Whether you realize it or not APIs are everywhere around us and they exchange sensitive data constantly, making them a rich target for attackers, which explains why we’ve seen a significant increase in attacks targeting APIs in recent years.

Chris Westphal
April 4, 2019

Come See Us At RSAC 2019

RSA Conference 2019 is just a week away and we couldn’t be more excited. 2019 has been a big year for us already and we continue the momentum with RSAC 2019.

Chris Westphal
February 25, 2019

We’re Committed To Security and Have SOC 2 To Prove It

Confidence is important when you decide to engage with a vendor. You want to know that vendor is able to deliver the service and you want to have confidence that your data is secure in their hands (or cloud as the case may be).

Chris Westphal
January 28, 2019

Lessons Learned – USPS API Vulnerability and 60 Million Exposed Users

You’ve probably seen the news about the USPS vulnerability where an attacker with simple access to usps.com, an understanding of the API logic, and no special tools could easily manipulate that logic to get a dump of data.

Chris Westphal
November 28, 2018

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