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Preventing API Breaches Using Salt Security with AWS WAF and Amazon API Gateway

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This article explains how Salt Security, an AWS partner, provides API threat detection to complement AWS WAF and Amazon API Gateway for comprehensive API security.

  • 95% of companies suffered API security events in past 12 months
  • Traditional WAFs and API gateways cannot detect complex, logic-based API attacks
  • Salt Security uses AI and machine learning for dedicated API threat detection
  • Broken Object-Level Authorization (BOLA) represents 40% of API attacks
  • Salt integrates with Amazon API Gateway, VPC traffic mirroring, and AWS WAF
  • Salt can automatically block malicious traffic through AWS WAF rules
  • Case study: FinTech company processes millions of daily API calls securely

Salt Security provides contextual API security analysis that identifies sophisticated attacks missed by traditional security tools, enabling organizations to detect threats during reconnaissance phases.



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