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Salt Security

Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Its patented API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks. By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. Deployed quickly and seamlessly in

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Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Its patented API Protection Platform is the only API security solution that combines the power of cloud-scale big data and time-tested ML/AI to detect and prevent API attacks. By correlating activities across millions of APIs and users over time, Salt delivers deep context with real-time analysis and continuous insights for API discovery, attack prevention, and shift-left practices. Deployed quickly and seamlessly in

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Salt Security is classified as AI infrastructure from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

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Salt Securitytime-tested ML/AIAPI Protection Platformpatented API Protection Platformcloud-scale big dataAPI security
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Companies similar to Salt Security

AI infrastructure · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Sqreen

match 88

Sqreen is the application security platform for the modern enterprise. More than 800 organizations trust Sqreen to protect, observe and test their applications, APIs and microservices. As opposed to pattern-based approaches, Sqreen analyses in-app execution in real time to deliver more robust security without compromising performance.

shared extracted concept terms: security; shared product terms: security, protect, apis, modern; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RASPIRE

match 80

RASPIRE is the first line of defense for applications against AI-powered fraud attacks, API abuse, and runtime threats. Unlike code scanners and pentesting tools that identify vulnerabilities before release, RASPIRE operates like a security expert running inside applications, monitoring, detecting, and blocking attacks 24/7 in real time. All without writing a single line of code.

shared extracted concept terms: api; shared product terms: application, attack, api, security; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Overwatch

match 74

Overwatch Data offers real-time AI agents to scale fraud, cyber, and security teams. Our agents automate the threat intelligence and brand protection workflow, while also conducting risk reviews at scale to detect fraud and financial crime.

shared extracted concept terms: time, security; shared product terms: real, time, scale, security; shared product theme: security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Anjuna

match 74

Anjuna makes hardware-grade application and data protection simple, fast and enterprise-ready. Anjuna software enables IT to “lift and shift” applications and data into the hardware-encrypted confines of a secure enclave, protecting them from malicious software, insiders, and bad actors. Available from every major chip, cloud, and system vendor, secure enclaves are the data security gold standard. Unlike point memory-only enclave solutions that require expensive and complicated software rewrites

shared extracted concept terms: security; shared product terms: application, protection, shift, protect; shared product theme: context and memory, developer infrastructure, security and compliance; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

MedCrypt

match 72

MedCrypt has developed a security toolkit that allows medical device developers to focus on diagnosing and treating disease, while ensuring their devices comply with security regulations and best practices. And since each installation of our software communicates with our MedCrypt network, we can use machine learning-based transaction monitoring algorithms to detect anomalous behavior, thwarting attacks in real time. This centralization of transaction data allows us to facilitate "Threat Sharing

shared extracted concept terms: security; shared product terms: security, practice, detect, attack; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance; same category: AI infrastructure; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

GreatHorn

match 70

GreatHorn is a cloud security platform that helps detect and prevent spear phishing and credential theft attacks in realtime

shared extracted concept terms: cloud, security; shared product terms: cloud, security, detect, prevent; shared product theme: developer infrastructure, security and compliance