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By Roey Eliyahu
Last week, researchers at OX Security published findings that should stop every security leader in their tracks. They discovered a critical vulnerability baked directly into Anthropic's Model Context Protocol SDK, affecting every supported language: Python, TypeScript, Java, and Rust. The result: remote code execution on any system running a vulnerable MCP implementation, with direct access to sensitive user data, internal databases, API keys, and chat histories. Over 7,000 publicly accessible servers.
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By Roey Eliyahu
Anthropic just released Claude Mythos Preview. They did not make it publicly available. That decision alone should tell you everything you need to know about what this model can do. During internal testing, Mythos autonomously discovered and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. It found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD. A 16-year-old vulnerability in a widely used media codec.
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By Michael Callahan
The AI security market is crowded. Vendors are racing to protect prompts, harden models, detect jailbreaks, and scan for data leakage at the LLM layer. The investment is real. The intent is good. And most of it is missing the point. Here is the problem: agents do not just think. They act. They call APIs. They trigger workflows. They write to databases, send emails, move money, and modify production systems.
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By Eric Schwake
The recent supply chain attack involving Mercor and the LiteLLM vulnerability serves as a massive wake-up call for enterprise security teams. While the security industry has spent the last year fixating on prompt injections and model jailbreaks, this breach highlights a far more systemic vulnerability. The weakest link in enterprise AI is not necessarily the model itself. It is the middleware connecting the models to your data.
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By Eric Schwake
The era of human-centric API consumption is officially ending. Over the past year, enterprises have rapidly transitioned from simply experimenting with Generative AI to deploying autonomous AI agents that drive core business operations. These agents act as digital employees. They utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) for reasoning, Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers for connectivity, and internal APIs for execution. This evolution has fundamentally altered the enterprise attack surface.
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By Eric Schwake
The term AI agent is dominant in current cybersecurity discourse. Vendors, analysts, and CISOs all use the label, yet technical confusion remains regarding how agents actually operate and where the security risks reside. Beneath the surface-level familiarity, there is often significant confusion about what an AI agent actually is, how it operates technically, and most importantly for security teams, where the risk actually lives.
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By Roey Eliyahu
One constant I hear from CISOs I speak with is that AI agents are not coming. They are already inside organizations, reasoning through goals, selecting tools, and taking action through the same APIs that connect your most sensitive systems. And most security teams have no idea what those agents are doing.
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By Roey Eliyahu
This week’s McKinsey incident should be a wake-up call for every enterprise moving fast to deploy AI. Not because AI itself is inherently insecure. But because too many organizations are still thinking about AI security at the model layer, while the real enterprise risk sits in the action layer: the APIs, MCP servers, internal services, and shadow integrations that AI agents can reach, invoke, and manipulate. That is the part most companies still do not see.
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By Eric Schwake
When cybersecurity teams talk about risk, they usually speak in technical terms like vulnerabilities, exploits, and attack vectors. But when they walk into the boardroom, they need to speak a different language. They need to speak about cost. In the era of AI, the cost of insecure APIs has shifted from a potential liability to a tangible line item on the balance sheet. It is no longer just about the cost of a data breach.
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By Eric Schwake
For the past two years, the adoption of Generative AI has felt like a gold rush. Organizations raced to integrate Large Language Models and build autonomous agents to assist employees. They often bypassed standard governance processes in the name of speed and innovation. That era of unrestricted experimentation is rapidly drawing to a close. A massive regulatory wave is forming worldwide. Frameworks like the EU AI Act and the new ISO/IEC 42001 standard are forcing a corporate reckoning.
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By Salt Security
AI agents are operating inside your enterprise; querying databases, triggering workflows, and taking action through APIs. As AI agents are adopted, organizations cannot see, track, or control what these agents are actually doing. In this session, Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security, challenges the industry’s narrow focus on LLM safety and exposes the much larger, invisible attack surface created by agentic systems.
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By Salt Security
Sisense powers analytics experiences inside the applications businesses rely on every day. As an API-first platform, securing those connections is critical, especially as AI agents increasingly operate through APIs to access data and trigger workflows. In this conversation, Sangram, CISO and VP of IT at Sisense, and Michael Callahan, CMO at Salt Security, discuss how Sisense approached API security strategically to protect their platform, maintain customer trust, and support innovation in the Agentic AI era.
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By Salt Security
As AI adoption accelerates, a new security risk is emerging from inside organizations, driven not by attackers, but by well-intentioned employees. Across the business, teams are rapidly building AI-powered applications, workflows, and automations using low-code/no-code platforms, custom scripts, and MCP servers.
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By Salt Security
After four sessions covering the technical realities, business imperatives, and security challenges of agentic AI, Salt Security’s Co-Founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu, and Salt's CMO Michael Callahan, come together for an unfiltered conversation about where the industry actually stands and where it's headed. The gap between AI ambition and operational readiness has never been wider.
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By Salt Security
See your Blind Spots in Minutes, not Months: How Salt Security & AWS Simplify API Security AI agents and cloud-native architectures have unleashed a wave of APIs and with them, new attack surfaces. Most security teams are struggling to keep up, especially in dynamic AWS environments where shadow and zombie APIs can easily go undetected. This Salt Security and AWS webinar explores a better approach to API discovery and security in AWS without the burden of in-line traffic collection or sensor deployments.
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By Salt Security
No Fluff, Just Real-World Threats This isn’t your typical marketing webinar. We cover what Agentic AI actually looks like in production, how MCP servers work to broker instructions, and what kind of new threats are emerging. Agentic AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. Autonomous agents are now operating in production environments, reasoning, remembering, and taking real actions across your systems. They’re not just generating content. They’re triggering workflows, modifying records, and making decisions. And they’re doing it over APIs.
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By Salt Security
AI agents aren’t just talking, they’re taking actions. They’re booking transactions, pulling sensitive data, and chaining tools together to get work done. As enterprises embrace these agents, protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) are enabling powerful new capabilities, but also creating invisible ecosystems of API-driven agent activity that traditional security tools can’t see or control.
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By Salt Security
For most leadership teams, the question is no longer if they’ll use AI, but how to turn it into measurable business value. Success hinges on the APIs that feed, govern, and scale AI initiatives — and whether your strategy is built for speed, security, and cost efficiency. From accelerating product development to delivering real-time customer experiences, the business case for AI is clear. But without the right API strategy, AI initiatives risk falling short — driving up costs, creating compliance gaps, and limiting ROI.
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By Salt Security
AI agents are transforming how leading companies operate, delivering 24/7 customer service, processing thousands of transactions, and driving unprecedented operational efficiency. 53% of organizations are already deploying AI agents for customer-facing tasks, with market leaders running hundreds or thousands of agents to gain a competitive advantage. These agents handle sensitive data, trigger transactions, and make autonomous decisions at machine speed. But the APIs that power them are becoming a vast, overlooked attack surface.
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By Salt Security
As organizations accelerate adoption of AI agents, autonomous workflows powered by LLMs and MCP servers are rapidly proliferating across internal systems, partner networks, cloud environments, and API gateways. The result? A sprawling, often invisible attack surface: shadow APIs, duplicate endpoints, context drift, unmanaged agent access, inconsistent policies, and risk of data exposure or compliance failures.
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By Salt Security
API attacks are on the rise, and WAFs and gateways cannot stop them. A few highlights from our latest Salt Labs report on API security: Download the report now to benchmark yourself and use the findings to improve API security for your company.
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By Salt Security
API Security for Dummies walks you through how application architecture has evolved, why apps are built on APIs now, the security risk APIs present, and best practices for securing APIs. This eBook: Download this eBook to learn the most critical elements of API security and ten prioritized steps you can follow now to start securing APIs for your organization.
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By Salt Security
Securing your APIs is no longer a luxury, but it shouldn't be viewed as just a necessary burden either. Protecting your APIs opens the door to real business value including: Download this eBook to explore the business results customers are uncovering as they embark on their API security journey and how to quantify the value of API security in your organization.
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By Salt Security
API attacks include many of the tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) identified in the MITRE ATT&CK framework. This white paper analyzes and maps three common API attack scenarios to the TTPs found in the MITRE Enterprise Matrix. By understanding how the MITRE ATT&CK TTPs relate to API security threats, security leaders can: Download now to learn how to defend against API attacks by leveraging this well-known security framework.
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By Salt Security
API security has emerged as a key priority for protecting vital data and services. It's also an area where many companies lack expertise. Salt Security has compiled this list of API security best practices, drawn from field experience and customer feedback, to help guide you on your API security journey. These API security best practices fall into multiple focus areas, including: Download this guide to obtain a comprehensive list of best practices and guidance to secure your APIs throughout their lifecycle.
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By Salt Security
With API attacks on the rise, and existing security technology proving to be ineffective at stopping API attacks, organizations need to take a new approach. API security offerings must provide a range of functionality to be useful to organizations, including: Download this white paper to improve awareness of what it takes to adequately secure APIs, how to evaluate a given API security offering, and what API security capabilities are necessary to protect your business.
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By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. Deployed quickly and seamlessly integrated within existing systems, the Salt Security platform gives customers immediate value and protection, so they can innovate with confidence and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.
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- Accelerate incident response: Reduce the time needed to understand and resolve incidents.
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- Simplify compliance: Tie your API and sensitive data discovery and vulnerability remediation into GRC workflows.
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