Strengthening Cloud Security: API Posture Governance, Threat Detection, and Attack Chain Visibility with Salt Security and Wiz
Introduction
In the current cloud-centric environment, strong API security is essential. Google’s acquisition of Wiz underscores the urgent necessity for all-encompassing cloud security solutions. Organizations should focus on both governing API posture — ensuring secure configuration and deployment to reduce vulnerabilities and assure compliance — and on effective threat detection and response. Salt Security’s API Protection Platform stands out by offering both aspects, integrating smoothly with cloud security platforms such as Wiz. This integration not only provides solid threat protection and highlights API posture vulnerabilities within Wiz but also supplies comprehensive API threat information that strengthens Wiz’s attack chain analysis, granting organizations a cohesive and detailed perspective on their cloud security risks.
The Dual Challenge: API Posture and Threats in the Cloud
Cloud environments present complexity, and while APIs are vital, they also pose risks due to inadequate security measures and potential malicious attacks. Conventional security tools frequently fall short in evaluating API posture, including aspects such as authentication setups, data handling methods, and compliance with security best practices, along with the comprehensive analysis of API traffic necessary to identify advanced threats. Salt Security’s API Protection Platform tackles this dual issue by offering continuous API discovery, runtime protection enhanced by behavioral analysis for threat detection, and essential posture governance features.
Salt Security and Wiz: A Unified and Contextualized View of API Risk
The integration of Salt Security and Wiz offers a robust solution for overseeing both API security posture and threats specific to APIs. Salt provides in-depth insights into API vulnerabilities, addressing posture gaps and ongoing attacks, which are displayed directly in the Wiz dashboard. This enables security teams to view API posture challenges alongside various other cloud security threats and risks in Wiz’s comprehensive interface. By linking posture assessments and threat activities to potential attack pathways and affected cloud resources within Wiz, organizations achieve a much clearer and more actionable grasp of their overall risk landscape. For instance, if Salt identifies an API with a Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) vulnerability (indicating a posture gap) and detects an active exploitation attempt, this information can help Wiz emphasize the critical risk associated with this API within a broader attack context.
Key Benefits for Our Shared Customers:
- Unified Visibility of API Posture and Threats: Gain a single-pane-of-glass view in Wiz, combining Salt’s API posture assessments and threat detection with Wiz’s comprehensive cloud security posture governance.
- Proactive Posture Governance and Threat Response: Identify and remediate API posture vulnerabilities before they can be exploited and detect and respond to active API attacks in real-time.
- Contextualized Risk Assessment with Attack Chain Visibility: Understand the real-world risk of API posture gaps and active attacks by correlating them with potential attack chains and impacted cloud resources within Wiz.
- Improved Compliance: Streamline compliance efforts by using Salt to identify posture gaps that violate regulatory requirements or internal security policies.
- Efficient Remediation and Incident Response: Utilize advanced workflows to prioritize remediation efforts based on the severity of posture vulnerabilities and their potential impact on the overall cloud environment and respond quickly and effectively to active API attacks, all visualized within Wiz.
Salt Security: Enabling Secure API Posture and Robust Threat Protection
Salt Security is dedicated to helping organizations secure their APIs and improve their overall security posture while also providing robust threat protection. By integrating with platforms like Wiz, we provide the crucial API-specific posture governance and threat detection capabilities that organizations need to thrive in the cloud.
If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you on your API Security journey through discovery, posture governance, and run-time threat protection, please contact us, schedule a demo, or check out our website.
