Salt Security, the leading API security company, is announcing its integration with Google Cloud’s Apigee API Management—Google Cloud’s native API management tool to build, manage, and secure APIs for any use case, environment, or scale. This collaboration centers its focus on the importance of API security, particularly as it relates to API discovery, runtime protection, and API gateway and traffic management.
Salt Security recognizes that today’s APIs are a lucrative target for threat actors, as these applications are fundamentally built to share a company’s most valuable data and services, according to Salt. APIs’ critical vulnerabilities—paired with organizations' increased reliance on APIs to power their businesses—make for a disastrous scenario.
Salt Security and Apigee’s integration tackles this growing security gap with a holistic, end-to-end API security solution that innovates in three key areas: proactive threat prevention and detection, enhanced visibility and control, and improved incident response.
To drive proactive threat prevention and detection, this combined solution features Salt’s AI and ML technologies to detect anomalies and potential attacks while identifying and blocking malicious API calls in real time. Simultaneously, Apigee incorporates policy enforcement and AI-powered monitoring to ensure compliance and surface common threats.
This integration approaches enhanced visibility and control with Salt’s capacity to automatically discover all APIs—including both shadow and deprecated APIs—for a comprehensive view. To protect APIs from abuse and ensure fair usage, Apigee acts as a single entry point for enhanced traffic management.
Salt’s detailed forensic analysis of API attacks and Apigee’s detailed analytics and monitoring capabilities serve to improve incident response. By increasing understanding of attack vectors through API usage patterns, performance metrics, and identifying potential threats, enterprises benefit from improved, better understood security postures.
Ultimately, Salt and Google Cloud’s collaboration covers the full spectrum of API security—from discovery and threat detection to prevention and incident response—to help enterprises safeguard their most sensitive information in an increasingly dynamic threat landscape.
"In today's digital age, APIs are the backbone of modern applications. Protecting these critical assets is paramount," said Roey Eliyahu, CEO of Salt Security. "Our integration with Google Cloud's Apigee API Management platform seamlessly blends together each of our individualized expertise in API security into one powerful solution. Our collaborative approach is built on a foundation of security, scalability, and reliability, ensuring that businesses can confidently embrace the power of their APIs."
To learn more about the Salt and Apigee integration, please visit https://salt.security/.