The neon lights of Black Hat and DEF CON, with their flashing demos and groundbreaking presentations, often dazzle attendees and cyber enthusiasts alike. From AI-driven hacking tools to quantum encryption, the subjects covered span a vast spectrum. However, as with any vibrant city, these include areas of risk and concern. For Black Hat 2023 events, APIs are core to these areas.

It never gets old! We’re excited to share that Salt has won yet another award — our 15th award this year! This time, we have been named the “Best API Security Solution” in the renowned 2023 SC Awards. The SC Awards are cybersecurity’s most prestigious and competitive honor. The premier recognition program honors outstanding innovations, organizations and leaders that are advancing the practice of information security.

In an ideal world, security incidents result in minimal damage, and we can learn from them to improve our future defenses. Fortunately, such appears to be the case with JumpCloud. According to JumpCloud’s blog post, its recent security incident impacted fewer than 5 JumpCloud customers and fewer than 10 devices. Moreover, working together with their incident response (IR) partner Crowdstrike (also a Salt Security partner), JumpCloud has mitigated the attack vector used by the threat actor.

Salt has just released a new resource for business and security leaders – “Understanding API Attacks: Why Are They Different and How Can You Stop Them.” Salt undertook writing this eBook as part of our ongoing commitment to educate the market about API security issues and trends. In this new eBook, we take a close look at how API attacks differ from traditional attacks, and the measures organizations can take to protect against them.

API security is a pressing concern for industries undergoing digital transformation, and none more so than financial services and insurance.

We’ve taken our award-winning API security “Down Under” with our latest customer success! Today we announced that Jemena, a leading energy company in Australia, has selected the Salt Security API Protection Platform to protect its critical gas and electricity infrastructure. Here at Salt, we are honored that Jemena has chosen us to secure its API modernization project!

Salt is thrilled to share the findings from the just-released “State of the CISO 2023” report! We wanted to hear directly from CISOs/CSOs around the world about how digital transformation is impacting their role and understand the biggest challenges – both personal and professional – they’re contending with as a result.

On May 29, 2023, a critical security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2023-34362, was published, leaving users of MOVEit Transfer software at high risk. According to Progress, organizations have reported possible exploitation in the wild. Therefore it’s crucial that any business using MOVEit Transfer to take immediate action, especially since all versions of this popular file transfer software are affected by this vulnerability.

We have exciting news to share! Salt Security is building a bi-directional integration with the Wiz cloud security platform! With this announcement, Salt becomes the first API security vendor to build a two-way integration with Wiz, giving Wiz customers the deepest and most actionable insights into API behaviors – all within Wiz’s comprehensive cloud security platform.

APIs power today’s digital economy and enable organizations to succeed in their business innovation efforts. Because every company’s APIs are unique, so are its security gaps, which bad actors will inevitably try to exploit. Only through rich context and deep behavioral analysis can these attackers be stopped. Many of the APIs that enable today’s applications and business services live and breathe within the Amazon Web Service (AWS) ecosystem.