I’m excited to share the latest evidence of Salt leadership in API security, with two powerful tributes. First – Salt Security has been honored as winning the “Peace of Mind” category during the first-ever Ally Technology Partner Awards! Ally Financial, the nation’s largest digital-only bank and leading auto finance company, highlighted five suppliers for their outstanding service excellence across a broad array of criteria.

On March 7, 2023, Loom experienced a security incident caused by a settings change in their CDN. Even with extensive internal testing, the nature of the problem caused it to go unnoticed until the change landed in production. Their incident report is a great explanation of the issue itself, so I won't reiterate much of it here, but what I will look at is a related issue, and how static code analysis tools integrated into development pipelines could have prevented the issue.

Keeping our customers’ data safe so that they can move forward with business innovation is our constant north star here at Salt. But it’s even more gratifying when our mission is in service to a higher purpose, as it is with today’s announcement of our deployment at Guild Education. With its Career Opportunity Platform, Guild Education helps employees forge a better career path through education.

According to the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP, 2019), broken object-level authorization (BOLA) is the most significant vulnerability confronting modern application programming interfaces (APIs). It can be exciting to pursue innovations in the API area, but while doing so, programmers must ensure that they are adequately attentive to security concerns and that they develop protocols that can address such concerns.

Last week, three golds. This week, two more. Wow – the accolades keep coming. Salt took top honors in two Globee® Cybersecurity World Award categories: Hot Security Company of the Year for Security Software, and API Management and Security! You can read all the formal details in our announcement. We’ve earned five awards in the past two weeks, and the month isn’t even half over.

The OWASP API project has recently decided to refresh the popular API Security Top 10 threat map. The team at Salt Security has always been actively involved in this project, having been a key contributor to the initial creation of the list. And we continue to be deeply involved in the thinking process, data gathering, and brainstorming in updating it. As of the writing of this post, the final version of API Security Top 10 2023 has not been officially released.

It’s our own version of the triple crown! Salt Security has won gold in not one, not two, but three categories in the 2023 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards! It’s like being at the Oscars and winning Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Director! Check out our award announcement! This year, Salt won highest honors for: Being recognized as the top solution for API security means a lot to our team.