Simplify API Security with Salt Ecosystem Integrations

APIs are essential, but they also represent a growing and complex risk to your organization. Intricate application architectures and an ever-evolving threat landscape already make API security a constant challenge. The increasing reliance on APIs by new technologies, including AI, further amplifies this risk. Salt Security’s ecosystem integrations are designed to help you manage this by streamlining your defenses and embedding robust API protection directly into your team’s tools and workflows daily.

Effortless API Discovery & Inventory

Tracking APIs manually across various environments is futile. Salt Security automates this essential initial step. With Salt Cloud Connect, we seamlessly integrate with AWS, Azure, and GCP to enable quick, agentless API discovery. Demonstrating this efficient methodology further, the Salt Security integration with CrowdStrike Falcon allows us to utilize your existing Falcon agents for immediate, real-time API discovery. If you are already using CrowdStrike, there’s no need for new agents or complicated setups, as your Falcon deployment can instantly enhance API visibility. The main advantages of this integrated discovery include:

• A continuously updated and unified API inventory.
• Significant reduction in manual effort.
• Freeing up security teams for strategic work.

Centralized API Risk Visibility & Governance

Once APIs are identified, it’s essential to assess their risks and ensure appropriate governance. Salt facilitates this by integrating seamlessly with your security infrastructure. To support thorough API posture governance, Salt offers detailed assessments and vulnerability data to Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools such as Wiz, enabling you to identify API security concerns within the larger context of your cloud security strategies.

Additionally, Salt provides valuable API threat intelligence straight into SIEM systems, including the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM. This integration empowers your security operations to detect and correlate attacks specifically aimed at APIs and related threat activities within your existing dashboards, enhancing your SIEM’s effectiveness with a cohesive view of API and endpoint threats. This consolidated visibility into both posture (through CSPMs) and current threats (via SIEMs) streamlines compliance and accelerates risk recognition.

Accelerated API Threat Detection & Response

Slow responses to API attacks are costly. Salt enables speed and precision in threat detection and response. Our “Dynamic Workflows” capability allows you to create tailored, automated incident response actions through an intuitive visual interface and a library of pre-built templates. This facilitates quicker, more efficient, and highly tailored responses to API security incidents. For instance, Salt can trigger automated blocking of API attacks using your CrowdStrike Falcon Firewall Management, stopping threats rapidly with tools you already use. Beyond CrowdStrike, Salt integrates with other SOAR platforms, WAFs (for actions like configuring WAF rules or managing IP lists ), and your ticketing and communication tools (like Jira or Slack), ensuring that API threat information leads to swift, decisive action. This integrated approach:

• Drastically reduces Mean Time To Respond (MTTR).
• Improves operational efficiency with automated actions.
• Ensures consistent application of response protocols.

API Security: Integrated, Not Isolated

In an era of AI-driven API complexity, your API security must be efficient and deeply integrated. Salt Security ensures comprehensive API discovery, risk visibility, and threat response become a manageable part of your operations, not another silo. By enhancing the tools you already trust, like CrowdStrike and Wiz, Salt empowers your team to defend against API threats with agility and precision.

If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you on your API Security journey through discovery, posture governance, and run-time threat protection, please contact us, schedule a demo, or check out our website.

*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Salt Security blog authored by Eric Schwake. Read the original post at: https://salt.security/blog/simplify-api-security-with-salt-ecosystem-integrations