The first platform built to secure AI agents and MCP servers.
Legacy tools weren’t built for this. Salt discovers shadow MCPs, maps AI-driven API calls, and stops the logic-based attacks that are fueling the next wave of breaches.
APIs are exploding.
AI agents are accelerating It.
APIs now drive 80% of web traffic. Agentic AI is multiplying that volume, and doing it autonomously. Each agent action, querying data, initiating workflows, making decisions, calls APIs under the hood. That’s a new attack surface. And legacy tools aren’t built for it.
The tools you already have can’t stop API attacks
Most API security tools weren’t built for how APIs work today.
They inspect payloads, not behavior. They look at configs, not usage. They miss the silent threats hiding in session abuse, logic flaws, and AI-agent actions. Salt gives you the missing layer, runtime intelligence that understands how your APIs are used, who’s using them, and what they’re trying to do.
WAF / WAAP
- Can’t detect API business logic abuse
- No session or user behavior context
- Doesn’t monitor sensitive data in APIs
- Validates schemas and rate limits
“API abuses will surpass injection attacks.”
— OWASP
CSPM / CNAPP
- Doesn’t discover APIs outside cloud config
- Can’t monitor API behavior or usage
- Doesn’t prevent data leakage via APIs
- Identifies cloud resource risks
“75% of APIs are updated weekly — CSPMs can’t keep up.”
CDN
- Not built to secure APIs or business logic
- Lacks visibility into internal API traffic
- Doesn’t inspect payloads or user intent
- Mitigates volumetric DDoS
“30.7% of APIs go undiscovered by CDN tools.”
— Cloudflare
Shift-Left Tools
- Blind to runtime behavior and abuse
- Doesn’t detect misused auth in production
- Misses logic flaws and session risk
- Finds code-level issues early
“Shift-left is essential—but not sufficient.”
API Gateways
- No behavioral threat detection
- Misses shadow and zombie APIs
- Doesn’t detect AI-agent abuse
- Handles authentication and throttling
“Gateways offer management — not security.”
Salt
- Stops business logic and behavioral attacks
- Finds all APIs — internal, external, shadow
- Maps sensitive data in motion
- Enforces posture, compliance, and governance
The only platform built for the API security lifecycle
Salt protects every stage of the API journey, not just perimeters or code. From discovery to threat prevention, Salt sees the full picture.
Solve the problems that matter most
Reduce attack surface
Quickly map your complete API attack surface and reduce risk by identifying and eliminating rogue, deprecated, and shadow APIs across all environment.
Create a unified inventory
Gain full visibility in minutes and eliminate blind spots to automatically uncover your API fabric in your organization — internal, external, shadow, and third-party APIs.
Govern posture and compliance
Assess API risk across all environments.
Enforce your security policies and achieve compliance standards by detecting misconfigurations and drift in real-time.
Extend data security to APIs
Track sensitive data in motion across APIs to uncover exposure risks missed by DSPM.
Enforce policies at the point of access to prevent leaks and meet PCI, HIPAA, and GDPR requirements.
Stop behavioral attacks
Stop logic-based and behavioral threats like BOLA and abuse of legitimate functionality with real-time, intent-based detection that goes beyond rules and signatures.
Identify AI agent risk
Assess API risk across all environments.
Enforce your security policies and achieve compliance standards by detecting misconfigurations and drift in real-time.
Leading brands. High-profile failures.
All traced to API risk.
PCI DSS, NIST, GDPR, and other frameworks now demand API-specific controls. Yet most organizations lack the visibility to enforce them. Illuminate aligns your API posture to policy, before regulators come knocking.
€290M
Uber fined by Dutch authorities for violating the General Data Protection Regulation (June 2024)
$2M
PayPal fined for exposing customers’ Social Security numbers via an API (January 2025)
€1.2B
Meta fined for unlawfully transferring Irish citizens’ personal data to the United States, violating GDPR provisions (May 2024)
$350M
Google shareholder settlement for misleading investors about a data link that exposed private user profiles via an API (February 2024)
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