The new platform redefines API security with instant deployment, AI agent risk management, and multi-environment coverage.
The cybersecurity company and pioneer in API protection, Salt Security, has announced the launch of Salt Illuminate, an innovative platform that promises to revolutionize how organizations adopt API (Application Programming Interfaces) security. With immediate deployment and no need for technical expertise or complex integrations, this solution opens the door for mass, barrier-free adoption of API security.
Total visibility in minutes, no complex integrations
In contrast to traditional models that required weeks or even months for implementation, Salt Illuminate allows security teams to obtain a complete map of their API attack surface in just minutes, without redirecting traffic, installing agents, or reconfiguring systems. Anyone, even without prior technical experience, can activate the platform and access a real-time, comprehensive inventory of all active, inactive, and hidden APIs within the organization.
According to Roey Eliyahu, CEO and co-founder of Salt Security, “this is a radical transformation in the way API security is adopted. We have eliminated every point of friction that prevented companies from securing their environments at the speed that business demands.”
Key features of Salt Illuminate
The new platform offers a range of key capabilities aimed at reducing risks, facilitating regulatory compliance, and responding in real time to advanced attacks:
- Self-service deployment: a guided assistant connects the environment with minimal technical effort, in minutes.
- AI agent risk detection and management: reveals how copilots, bots, and AI agents interact with APIs, enabling control over their access and detection of misuse.
- Immediate attack surface reduction: identifies shadow APIs, zombie APIs, and unauthorized third parties across all environments to eliminate blind spots.
- Unified API inventory: provides an overview of all APIs (managed, unmanaged, internal, external, legacy, and partner) in a single interface.
- Compliance and security posture automation: automatically assesses misconfigurations, broken authentications, and overexposure, also offering the API Policy Hub, mapping to regulatory frameworks such as NIST, PCI DSS, NYDFS 500, or OWASP.
- Protection of sensitive data in motion: identifies data exposures such as PII, PHI, or intellectual property, enabling policy enforcement at the access point to prevent leaks.
- Real-time defense against behavior-based attacks: detects and blocks threats such as BOLA, data exfiltration, or misuse of legitimate functionalities using proprietary AI based on the attacker’s intent.
Built to scale, ready to use
Salt Illuminate requires no additional architecture or changes to network routing. Once connected to the organization’s cloud infrastructure sources, it begins generating visual maps of the entire API structure with useful, actionable information. This allows security teams and platforms to react swiftly and accurately, even in highly distributed or complex environments.
“APIs are no longer just code; they are the nervous system of the business,” states Eliyahu. “With Salt Illuminate, organizations finally have the visibility and control needed to protect that system quickly, simply, and intelligently.”
The end of an era: goodbye to slow and fragmented API security
With this solution, Salt Security puts an end to traditional approaches that offered partial coverage, required technology silos, and slowed operations. Instead, it proposes a cloud-native API security model that is agile, continuous, and accessible to any team, regardless of size or experience.
About Salt Security
Salt Security is a global leader in API security. Its platform is designed to prevent real-time threats, protect sensitive data, and secure the digital growth of modern organizations. Thanks to its AI and deep learning-based approach, Salt helps companies of all sizes protect their digital ecosystem against increasingly sophisticated attacks.
Source: salt.security