Salt Security Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Gartner defines API protection products as a category of specialized stand-alone security products focusing on protecting APIs from exploits, abuse and access violations, and assisting in remediating API exposures. These products offer features such as API discovery, API security testing, API posture management and runtime protection utilizing behavioral analysis. They should provide coverage for the internal- and external-facing APIs, and third-party APIs that organizations may consume. API protection products are delivered as cloud-based and on-premises solutions. Deployment can be offered in-line by intercepting ingress/egress API calls or out-of-band by deploying agents on application workloads and/or scanning code repositories.

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Salt Security API Protection Platform

Salt Security

HEAD OF CYBER DEFENSE CENTER

We deployed Salt Security API protection across our API eco-system in our organization and i should it now plays a key role in our end to end security operations. The platform uses AI to discover shadow and zombie API's , monitor traffic in real time and block attacks from top global threats. Deployment was even straightforward with agent less. 

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IT Security & Risk Management Associate

It's fairly flexible and easy to work with. I appreciate the versatility. Fairly responsive.

Chief Information Security Officer

The experience was quite good, but the support model was a challenge in that its all remote and no service providers who can support the implementation

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Salt Security is a provider of API security solutions. The company's API Protection Platform uses cloud-scale big data and ML/AI technologies to detect and block API attacks, offering security across all stages of the API lifecycle. Salt's platform offers real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and integrating security practices early in the development process. The unique API Context Engine (ACE) part of the system facilitates pre-production design analysis, API discovery, API attack mitigation, and remediation insights.


Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Its patented API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks. By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context and actionable intelligence with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. Deployed quickly and seamlessly integrated within existing systems, the Salt Security platform gives customers immediate value and protection, so they can innovate with confidence and accelerate their digital transformation initiatives.

By delivering context-based insights across the entire API lifecycle, Salt enables users to detect the reconnaissance activity of bad actors and block them before they can reach their objective. Through its unique API Context Engine (ACE) architecture, the Salt platform provides design analysis in pre-production, discovers all APIs, pinpoints and stops API attackers, and provides remediation insights. 

With a total funding of $271 million, Salt Security has a valuation of $1.4 billion. Its latest $140 Series D round, led by CapitalG, Alphabet's independent growth fund, included participation from all existing investors, including Sequoia Capital, Y Combinator, Tenaya Capital, S Capital VC, Advent International, Alkeon Capital, and DFJ Growth.

Salt Security holds the only granted patent for using AI to identify and prevent API attacks and is the only solution that automatically and continuously discovers all APIs. This approach enables a complete and up-to-date inventory of all APIs. The Salt API security platform leads the market with the simplest, most comprehensive, and most effective API security offering.

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