API security firm Salt Security introduced Salt Illuminate, its platform to redefine how organizations adopt API security. Featuring self-service onboarding and seamless cloud-native connect capabilities, Salt claims to cut deployments from months to minutes without requiring architecture knowledge and manual integration.
With Salt Illuminate, teams can:
- Map the full API attack surface.
- Uncover shadow, zombie and third-party APIs.
- Identify and manage AI agent risk.
- Gover/man security posture and compliance.
- Extend data security to data-in-motion, rather than just data-at-rest.
- Stop behavioral API attacks in real time.
“This is a fundamental shift in the way API security is adopted,” said Roey Eliyahu, Salt Security’s CEO and co-founder. “We’ve removed every friction point of an organization’s API adoption and deployment journey. With Salt Illuminate, organizations can deploy in a large-scale environment in minutes, even without prior experience.”
Key features include:
- Self-service onboarding, featuring a guided, frictionless onboarding wizard allows teams to connect Salt to their environment with zero integration effort.
- AI agent risk identification/management, as it reveals how entities interact with APIs, helping teams detect misuse, govern access and prevent uncontrolled exposure.
- Attack surface reduction, with an attacker’s-eye view of an organization’s environment that can identify rogue, deprecated and shadow APIs across all environments, allowing teams to eliminate blind spots and reduce exposure.
- Unified, accurate inventory building by providing teams with complete, high-fidelity visibility into all APIs, including managed, unmanaged, internal, external, partner and legacy, across every part of their business.
- Posture and compliance jump-starting, automating posture evaluation across every API while checking for misconfigurations, broken authentications, overexposure and more.
- API data security extension by tracking sensitive data-in-motion across APIs, and automatically identifying where PII, PHI or IP is exposed.
- Behavioral API attack blocking, whereby organizations can leverage AI to detect and block behavioral threats such as BOLA, abuse of legitimate functionality, and data exfiltration.
- Streamlined deployment that is built for scale, with no traffic routing, agents or configuration drag.
“Your APIs are no longer just code—they’re the nervous system of your business,” said Eliyahu. “Salt Illuminate gives you the visibility and control to secure that system—faster, easier, and smarter than ever before.”
