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Salt Security API Protection Platform

bySalt Security
in API Protection
4.6

Overview

Product Information on Salt Security API Protection Platform

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Salt Security API Protection Platform?

Salt Security API Protection Platform is a software that provides solutions for identifying, monitoring, and securing APIs throughout their lifecycle. The software enables organizations to detect vulnerabilities, prevent threats, and maintain compliance by analyzing API traffic in real time. It offers capabilities such as automated discovery of APIs, risk assessment, and adaptive intelligence to recognize new and existing threats. The software helps address business challenges associated with unauthorized data exposure, API misuse, and attack prevention by delivering continuous protection and visibility into API ecosystems. It is designed to support incident response, policy enforcement, and forensics, aiming to reduce risks associated with API-driven architectures.

Salt Security API Protection Platform Pricing

Salt Security API Protection Platform software offers a subscription-based pricing model with options typically structured according to the volume of API traffic and selected features. Pricing tiers may vary based on deployment scale, customer requirements, and additional security functionalities included in the software package. Detailed pricing information is provided directly by the provider upon request.

Overall experience with Salt Security API Protection Platform

Chief Information Security Officer
500M - 1B USD, Telecommunication
FAVORABLE

“SALT Security API Protection Review”

4.0
Feb 4, 2026
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IT Security & Risk Management Associate
3B - 10B USD, Insurance (except health)
CRITICAL

“Salt is a helpful security API platform, with some caveats”

3.0
Jan 13, 2026
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About Company

Company Description

Updated 5th March 2024

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.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2018
Head office location
Palo Alto, United States
Website
https://salt.security

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Peer Discussions

Salt Security API Protection Platform Reviews and Ratings

4.6

(56 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
68%
4 Star
29%
3 Star
4%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
0%
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  • Chief Information Security Officer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    SALT Security API Protection Review

    4.0
    Feb 4, 2026
    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
  • Chief Information Security Officer
    50M-1B USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    SALT Security API Protection Review

    4.0
    Feb 4, 2026
    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 API Protection Platform Likes & Dislikes

Like

The product creates a comprehensive catalogue of APIs using all methods. The crawling capability is great for discovering publicly accessible APIs without onboarding the applications. Furthermore, it tells you the technology stake of the host.

Like

The product creates a comprehensive catalogue of APIs using all methods. The crawling capability is great for discovering publicly accessible APIs without onboarding the applications. Furthermore, it tells you the technology stake of the host.

Like

The product creates a comprehensive catalogue of APIs using all methods. The crawling capability is great for discovering publicly accessible APIs without onboarding the applications. Furthermore, it tells you the technology stake of the host.

Dislike

Could not integrate it as easily as we wanted with Okta with DPOP. Documentation could have been a bit better for our non-standard API implementations. Caused some APIs to not work under a set of conditions where we thought they should.

Dislike

Could not integrate it as easily as we wanted with Okta with DPOP. Documentation could have been a bit better for our non-standard API implementations. Caused some APIs to not work under a set of conditions where we thought they should.

Dislike

Could not integrate it as easily as we wanted with Okta with DPOP. Documentation could have been a bit better for our non-standard API implementations. Caused some APIs to not work under a set of conditions where we thought they should.