API security company Salt Security announced its expanded partnership and new integration with cloud security provider Wiz. The integration is expected to allow organizations to detect, comprehend and respond to API security posture gaps and critical risk, directly within their cloud security infrastructure.
The complexity and size of modern cloud deployments, which frequently leverage API gateways, pose distinct security challenges for organizations. Traditional security tools cannot evaluate API posture and provide the API traffic analysis needed to identify advanced threats. Salt Security’s API Protection Platform tackles these dual issues, delivering continuous API discovery, runtime protection enhanced by behavioral analysis for threat detection and essential posture governance features.
The integration enhances cloud security by directly feeding Salt’s API security intelligence into the Wiz platform. Salt’s deep understanding of API behavior enriches Wiz’s cloud context, helping teams proactively secure APIs and accelerate response to emerging threats.
With this integration, the insight derived from Salt can be viewed directly in the Wiz security graph, allowing teams to visualize API posture challenges alongside other cloud security threats and risks identified by Wiz. By linking posture assessments and runtime events to potential attack pathways and affected cloud resources within Wiz, organizations gain a comprehensive and actionable view of their entire attack surface.
“The partnership between Salt Security and Wiz gives customers a clearer view of their API risk — enriching Wiz’s context with detailed insights that help identify posture gaps and potential attack paths,” said Wiz’s VP of product extensibility and partnerships, Oron Noah. “By combining Salt’s API intelligence with Wiz’s cloud visibility, we’re helping teams better understand which issues matter most so they can reduce risk faster and scale their API ecosystems with confidence.”
WIN enables Salt Security and Wiz customers to benefit from:
- Unified visibility into API posture and threats.
- Contextualized risk assessment, with toxic combination and attack path visibility.
- Improved compliance.
- Remediation and streamlined incident response.
- Automated workflows.
“APIs are fundamental to driving cloud adoption, however securing API ecosystems within these environments has become a paramount concern,” said Roey Eliyahu, the co-founder and CEO of Salt Security. “Our partnership and integration with Wiz significantly enhances API security in the cloud. By fusing in-depth API posture and attack intelligence with robust cloud security insights on a unified platform, organizations can augment their defenses, ensure rapid incident response and safeguard essential assets. Our integration with platforms like Wiz empower organizations to secure their APIs and cloud environments with the utmost confidence.”
Today’s news builds upon Salt’s longstanding partnership with Wiz. Salt was one of the first vendors to join the Wiz Integration (WIN) platform in 2023 and since then, the two companies have collaborated closely to build integrations that enhance API security and bolster threat detection across cloud environments.
