SALT SECURITY, INC.

Salt Security is a cybersecurity company specializing in API security, providing solutions to protect organizations from breaches and vulnerabilities associated with Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Founded in 2016 by Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia, the company's mission is to be a global leader in Agentic Security. Salt Security is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States.

The company offers a patented API Protection Platform that leverages cloud-scale big data, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning (ML) to provide continuous API discovery, real-time threat detection, and attack prevention. This platform helps identify potential design flaws and misconfigurations, offering protection across the full API lifecycle from build to runtime. Salt Security's solutions cater to enterprises utilizing modern application architectures, including cloud, mobile, and microservices technologies, across various sectors such as financial services, technology, retail, and healthcare.

In recent news, Salt Security launched its Agentic Security Platform in March 2026, designed to secure the AI stack across Large Language Models (LLMs), Multi-Cloud Platform (MCP) servers, and APIs. The company's research in April 2026 highlighted that many organizations face an unsecured API surge due to the rapid advancement of AI agents. Led by co-founders Roey Eliyahu (CEO) and Michael Nicosia (COO), Salt Security is recognized for its pioneering role and innovation in the API security market, holding a patent for its AI-driven approach to API attack prevention.