Salt Security, a leading API security company, is announcing a new collaboration with CrowdStrike that focuses on protecting APIs from evolving attacks while addressing the need for integrated security solutions. The companies’ product integration—which merges the strengths of the Salt Security API Protection Platform and the CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM—works to amplify API visibility, threat detection, and resolution from within the CrowdStrike NG-SIEM.
Attacks against APIs are becoming increasingly frequent, where, according to the Salt Labs State of API Security Report 2024, API security incidents have more than doubled within the past year. The reasons for this are plentiful, ranging from APIs’ importance for modern apps and their functionality, the increasing dependence on APIs due to digital transformation, as well as APIs’ tendency to harbor sensitive information, according to Eric Schwake, director, cybersecurity, Salt Security.
For all these reasons, APIs “become attractive targets for attackers aiming to steal data or disrupt operations,” said Schwake. This is only further aggravated by the fact that “attackers continually craft new and advanced methods to exploit API vulnerabilities, making it essential for organizations to stay proactive.”
By integrating Salt Security’s leading API security solution with the CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, users benefit from enhanced API visibility, improved threat detection, and simplified security workflows. Salt Security’s API Protection Platform transfers its adaptive threat intelligence—designed specifically to block small, gradual invasions from attackers—into the CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, enabling enterprises to rapidly detect and respond to threats.
Additionally, Salt Security’s insights can trigger automatic incident creation within CrowdStrike NG-SIEM, increasing the efficiency of security teams, according to the companies.
“APIs drive digital transformation and application modernization but also create unique security challenges,” said Daniel Bernard, chief business officer at CrowdStrike. “Our collaboration with Salt Security integrates their API threat intelligence with the Falcon platform, delivering actionable insights to help organizations of all sizes identify security gaps, understand their attack surface, and proactively secure critical assets.”
“This partnership strengthens API security on CrowdStrike's platform, allowing for more effective protection against API-related threats and better contextualizing these threats with other attacks within the CrowdStrike NG-SIEM,” said Schwake. “CrowdStrike NG-SIEM users specifically benefit from increased visibility into API activities, including potential vulnerabilities and attacks, that are inaccessible without Salt Security's insights.”
This integration combines Salt’s API-based attacker telemetry—including insights on attack techniques, attacker infrastructure, attack patterns, and more—with endpoint, identity, and cloud telemetry from the Falcon platform, as well as third-party security and IT data, and AI and workflow automation. Ultimately, this product integration delivers a comprehensive view of and proactive approach to the modern attack surface, fortifying CrowdStrike NG-SIEM with vital context regarding the vulnerabilities of APIs.
To learn more about Salt Security and CrowdStrike’s integration, please visit https://salt.security/ or https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/.