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4 Ways Today’s CISOs Must Address API Security

At our recent API Security Summit – the industry’s first summit dedicated entirely to API security – we had the opportunity to chat with six senior security executives about their approaches to protecting these vital assets.

Jennifer Dignum

March 10, 2022

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

How Shift-Left Extremism is Harming your API Security Strategy

Establishing and gaining adoption of secure build pipeline approaches is a multi-year endeavor for organizations.

Michael Isbitski

April 26, 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

MythBusters API Edition: Zero Trust and its limitations for API Security

Zero trust principles and the technologies that have emerged inevitably promote dynamic access control that is informed by application context, identity, and behaviors.

Michael Isbitski

April 20, 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

Top Findings from Industry’s First State of API Security Report

Learn what pain points we uncovered as we set out to understand the state of API security – a critical window into broader enterprise security trends given that APIs underlie every revenue-generating application today.

Michelle McLean

February 3, 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

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

Protecting Digital Platforms – What I’m Hearing From CISOs

In light of accelerated transformation, digital platforms are now a more critical part of our lives and I’m thankful for the companies that continue to provide these services. Had we seen a similar situation 15 or 20 years back, how would we have managed?

Roey Eliyahu

April 7, 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

How Modern Web Applications Changed the Way Enterprises Should Handle Security

The non-stop news of security breaches in recent years underscores a growing realization that organizations need to fundamentally rethink the way they protect their applications and data.

Roey Eliyahu

March 21, 2019

API Protection – What You Need To Know In The New API Economy

Technology is constantly evolving. We’ve seen this in recent years in the way applications are developed (e.g. CI/CD), delivered (e.g. microservices and cloud), and consumed (e.g. more SaaS and mobile devices).

Salt

November 14, 2018

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4 Ways Today’s CISOs Must Address API Security

Insights into Gartner’s Tips for Protecting APIs

Open Banking - Security Implications of the Global Trend

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

How Shift-Left Extremism is Harming your API Security Strategy

Building API Context with a New Tech Talk Video Series

MythBusters API Edition: Zero Trust and its limitations for API Security

3 Reasons You Might Be Failing at API Security

Stopping API Attacks: Columbo, Correlation, and Context

Lessons from the FinTech Trenches Securing APIs at Finastra

Top Findings from Industry’s First State of API Security Report

Three API Security Challenges Every Security Professional Should Be Prepared For

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

Securing APIs – It’s Different Than Securing Apps

Can API Security Be Wholly Solved in Development?

Protecting Digital Platforms – What I’m Hearing From CISOs

Salt Security API Protection Explained

What Is The OWASP API Security Top 10

How Martial Arts Can Help You Eliminate API Vulnerabilities

How Modern Web Applications Changed the Way Enterprises Should Handle Security

API Protection – What You Need To Know In The New API Economy

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