Saltsecurity

Salt Security was founded in 2016 by Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia. The company maintains dual headquarters in Palo Alto, California, and Tel Aviv, Israel. It operates as a private company, last reaching a $1.4 billion valuation during its $140 million Series D funding round in February 2022, led by CapitalG. The company provides a dedicated API security platform that discovers APIs and blocks API-specific attacks.

The core product is the Salt Security API Protection Platform. It addresses vulnerabilities such as Broken Object Level Authorization (BOLA) and the proliferation of "shadow APIs" deployed without security team oversight. The platform analyzes API traffic using machine learning to establish a baseline of normal behavior and flag anomalies. It is sold primarily to enterprise security and application security (AppSec) teams. The platform deploys out-of-band, integrating with existing infrastructure like API gateways (such as Kong and Apigee) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP) without requiring software agents.