API attacks have dominated the cybersecurity news cycle lately. In early 2023, T-Mobile made news for an API-based breach of 37 million PII records of its past and present customers. And last year, Optus, a major telecommunications company in Australia, experienced an API security incident that exposed around 10 million customer records. And API attacks that aren't quite as ”newsworthy” happen every single day.
Salt has long benefited from the unique support that comes from being part of the Y Combinator accelerator program (Salt was in the Winter 2016 batch), and all these years later, we’re thrilled to have been named to not one but two of YC’s Top Company lists – the Top Private YC companies 2023 and the YC Breakthrough Companies 2023. For the Top Private list, it’s deja vu all over again, since we made that list last year as well.
OAuth (Open Authorization) is a modern, open authorization standard designed to allow cross-application access delegation – for example, allowing your application to read data from your Facebook profile. Combined with the proper extensions, OAuth can also be used for authentication – for example, to log into your application using Google credentials. Since its first introduction in 2006, OAuth has gained tremendous popularity.
We are mere weeks into our new fiscal year, but the good news – and the good times – have already started! First – the good news! Today we announced that Salt Security has been recognized by CRN with inclusion in its prestigious Security 100 list for technology innovation in application security! According to Blaine Raddon, CEO of The Channel Company, the Security 100 list acknowledges industry-leading companies that deliver pioneering security offerings to the IT channel.
With hundreds of contributors, the MITRE ATT&CK Framework has become a vital resource of open source knowledge for the security industry. CISOs and cybersecurity professionals around the globe rely on the framework to increase their understanding about different cyber-attack tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). With insights about TTPs relevant to their specific platform or environment, organizations gain tremendous value to combat cyber threats.
Confused about the difference between a web application firewall (WAF) and a web application and API protection platform (WAAP)? Curious how intelligent a next-gen “intelligent WAF” really is? Wondering whether you need dedicated API security if you have a WAAP? Can you really trust a WAAP to secure your critical data and services? In a session from the Salt Security API Security Summit, Mike Rothman, Techstrong Research, stated.
Today we announced the immediate availability of the Salt Security API Protection Platform on Google Cloud Marketplace and our acceptance to the Google Partner Advantage program! Salt now provides the cloud trifecta, enabling customers to adopt the Salt platform on the AWS Marketplace (followed by the AWS ISV Accelerate Program), on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, and now on Google Cloud!
