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Founder's Corner: Episode 1

Welcome to Episode One of Salt Security’s New Series: Founder’s Corner This series will share insights and conversations from founders on markets, technology, trends, and other interesting topics of the day. Starting off the series with Salt’s Co-Founders, Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia, as they talk about how they became founders, what inspired them to start Salt Security, where the name came from, and the future of API Security.

Becoming A Secure API First Company

Join Nick Rago (VP of Product Strategy at Salt Security) and Claudio Acquaviva (Software Architect of Kong Inc.) in this informative webinar (live April 11). They discuss what being API-first really means, the essentials to success, and walkthrough the lifecycle of an API from design to deployment and how combining Salt Security with Kong through that API lifecycle can help provide a risk-free API-first journey.

A New Strategy for Reducing API Risk

As organizations increasingly embrace APIs, a new challenge has emerged - the complexity of managing, securing, and understanding the sprawling API landscape within an organization. To tackle these concerns head-on, Salt Security has pioneered the industry's first API posture governance engine and a suite of advanced capabilities designed to bring clarity, security, and efficiency to your API ecosystem.

STEP Program with Bright Security: DAST Solutions and API Testing

We’re all in this together, which is why awareness about APIs and connecting with one another is crucial to cyber security. Salt Security has recently announced our Salt Technical Ecosystem Partner Program which can help demonstrate the role of application security testing when it comes to API security and where it fits in a good API security program.

OAuth security gaps at Grammarly (now remediated)

This short video explains how Salt Labs researchers identified several critical security flaws on the popular site - Grammarly. The flaws were found in the site's authentication functionality and could have allowed a malicious attacker to take over user accounts, access profile information, and take actions on behalf of the user. All issues were reported to Grammarly and have been resolved with no evidence of these flaws being actively exploited in the wild. In the research, they also found similar vulnerabilities in Vidio.com and Bukalapak.com.

Understanding API Attacks: Why they are different and how to stop them

API attacks aren’t like traditional application attacks. Understanding those differences is crucial to protecting the valuable data and services your APIs enable. Nick Rago, Salt Security Field CTO, discusses in this webinar: We hope you enjoy the webinar on the changing nature of API attacks and learn the best practices to keep your organization safe.

State of API Security for Financial Services and Insurance

As financial services and insurance organizations have increasingly turned to APIs to accelerate business innovation, attackers have also changed their tactics, making APIs their prime target. This short video discusses findings from the first industry-specific version of the State of API Security report and draws on a combination of survey responses and empirical data from the Salt Cloud. Key trends revealed by the survey include.