Salt Security, an API security company, has announced that it is now a Web Application Firewall (WAF) Ready Partner for Amazon Web Services (AWS). This partnership helps customers discover validated solutions that integrate with AWS WAF and accelerates adoption of a holistic security approach. AWS WAF is available to all AWS customers and can be deployed directly from the AWS console.
The partnership sets Salt Security apart as an AWS Partner Network (APN) member with a product that works with AWS WAF. AWS WAF Ready Partners help customers quickly identify easy-to-deploy solutions that can help detect, mitigate, and analyze common internet threats and vulnerabilities.
With businesses increasingly relying on websites and applications, it is important that they are secure and protected from external threats that can lead to loss of revenue, customer trust, and brand reputation. Although implementing a WAF can be challenging and expensive, AWS WAF Ready Partners offer customers a simpler solution to deploying and maintaining their application layer security.
As an AWS Software Path Partner and member of AWS ISV Accelerate Program, Salt Security is proud to be an AWS WAF Ready Partner. The company’s unique cloud-scale API data lake architecture applies artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for API discovery and threat protection. Gilad Barzilay, head of business development at Salt Security, believes that by achieving these designations, it will be easier and faster for businesses to protect the APIs running on their AWS environments.
One satisfied customer, Jason Weitzman, senior application security engineer at Xolv Technology Solutions, said that deploying the Salt platform took almost no effort. It integrated quickly with their existing Cloudflare, AWS, Jira, and other systems. The platform started identifying errors and delivering insights on how to craft better APIs within minutes.
The Salt platform deploys out of band to avoid any interference with application performance or availability. It pairs with AWS WAF as an API traffic collection point and to block detected attackers. To support the seamless integration and deployment of solutions such as the Salt platform, AWS established the AWS Service Ready Program, which helps customers identify solutions integrated with AWS services and spend less time evaluating new tools and more time scaling their use of solutions that are integrated with AWS services.
APIs are a hot topic among cybersecurity professionals and C-suites at the moment due to their increasingly vital business roles. Earlier this year, Salt Security released a new API report that showed a 400% increase in attackers, demonstrating their prevalence.
In conclusion, the partnership between Salt Security and AWS offers customers an easier solution to deploy and maintain their application layer security solution through easy-to-deploy solutions that can help detect, mitigate, and analyze some of the most common internet threats and vulnerabilities. This will allow businesses to protect their APIs running on their AWS environments.