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

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