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Gartner® Insights: Navigating the Evolving API Protection Market and Taking Action

Eric Schwake
Aug 13, 2024

Securing your API ecosystem is increasingly complex, leaving organizations unsure where to begin. Gartner's®  2024 Market Guide for API Protection offers clear guidance:

"Start using API protection products to discover and categorize your organization's APIs. Identify critical APIs that are publicly exposed and provide access to sensitive data."

Understanding your API attack surface and prioritizing your security efforts is crucial. Once you have visibility into your API landscape, you can implement appropriate security measures to protect your APIs from abuse and access violations. This might involve deploying an API protection product, implementing security best practices, and conducting regular security assessments.  It also becomes critical to design and develop APIs from the start that meet your organization’s governance standards.

The API protection market is undergoing a period of rapid evolution, with consolidation and new entrants from various sectors. According to one of the findings in the 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for API Protection,

"While the early adopters of API protection have been acquiring products from specialized vendors, the market is rapidly consolidating with offerings from web application and API protection (WAAP), API management and cloud infrastructure and platform service (CIPS) providers competing with stand-alone API protection providers."

While these traditional application security providers offer some API security capabilities, they often don’t have the depth and specialization of dedicated API security vendors such as Salt Security.

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Salt Security is a specialized API security vendor uniquely positioned to address the evolving API threat landscape. Our platform is purpose-built for API security, leveraging deep API expertise and cutting-edge AI-infused technology to provide comprehensive visibility and protection for all APIs. We are committed to staying ahead of the curve, ensuring our customers have the best API security solution.

Salt Security's API Protection Platform makes it easy to get started with API protection. Our platform quickly and easily discovers all your APIs, giving you the visibility you need to secure them. We also offer comprehensive security posture governance and runtime protection capabilities to help you mitigate API risks and prevent attacks. Take action now to protect your APIs and safeguard your sensitive data before it's too late.

If you would like to learn more about Salt and how we can help you on your API Security journey through discovery, posture management and run time threat protection, please contact us, schedule a demo, or check out our website.

*Gartner, Market Guide for API Protection, Dionisio Zumerle, Aaron Lord, et al., 29 May 2024 GARTNER is a registered trademark and service mark of Gartner, Inc. and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and internationally and is used herein with permission. All rights reserved.

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