Salt Security has recently announced its expanded partnership with CrowdStrike, where it integrates the Salt Security API Protection Platform with the CrowdStrike Falcon Platform. This integration allows customers to gain a comprehensive view of API security risks and insights into application-layer attack surfaces.
By offering robust API threat intelligence and improved cross-organization API security functions, the integration aims to streamline and enhance API auditing, monitoring, and enforcement workflows. The integration is now available on the CrowdStrike Marketplace.
Salt Security’s patented API security platform employs cloud-scale big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to automatically discover and inventory all APIs within organizations. By identifying where APIs expose sensitive data, Salt aids enterprises in blocking potential API attacks and remediating vulnerabilities, thereby strengthening their API security posture.
The partnership between Salt Security and CrowdStrike allows customers to benefit from the combination of Salt’s AI-driven insights and CrowdStrike’s award-winning AI-powered protection capabilities. This collaboration provides organizations with complete visibility into their API attack surface, along with an understanding of the business criticality of threats.
The partnership offers several benefits to customers, including additional intelligence on API vulnerabilities and threats for application-layer security, robust API threat mitigation through Salt detections integrated with the Falcon platform, and enhanced detection, investigation, and response of API-based threats through automated policy management within the Falcon console.
Gur Talpaz, the Vice President of Corporate Development and Head of Falcon Fund at CrowdStrike, emphasizes the importance of securing APIs as they serve as the core of modern technology stacks. With APIs becoming prime targets for malicious actors, Gur Talpaz believes that a diligent and comprehensive approach is required. The integration of Salt’s AI-driven intelligence with the widely deployed Falcon platform provides organizations with comprehensive visibility into their application-layer attack surface and a robust understanding of their application threat landscape.
Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security, highlights the increasing importance of API security as API abuse continues to cause havoc for unprepared organizations. He states that protecting against API threats necessitates deep visibility and robust runtime protection. Eliyahu expresses excitement about bringing Salt’s unique API security strengths to the CrowdStrike customer base through this integration. Together with CrowdStrike, Salt can provide extended posture management and runtime protections across cloud and application landscapes.
CrowdStrike’s strategic investment vehicle, Falcon Fund, invested in Salt Security in September 2022. Since then, the two companies have collaborated to enhance API discovery and runtime protection, as well as enable security testing to strengthen APIs.
In conclusion, the expanded partnership between Salt Security and CrowdStrike introduces an integration that offers customers a 360-degree view of API security risks and enhanced API security functions. By combining AI-driven insights and AI-powered protection capabilities, organizations can gain comprehensive visibility into their API attack surface and effectively mitigate API-based threats. This integration addresses the growing importance of API security and aims to strengthen organizations’ overall security posture.