Guest: Michelle McLean (LinkedIn)
Company: Salt Security (Twitter)
Show: To The Point
Keyword: API Security

Michelle McLean, VP of Marketing at Salt Security, explains what makes API security different from other types of security. When people are looking to attack applications, they are figuring out how APIs work and the mechanisms they can manipulate to breach the API’s security. However, there is no way for an attacker to follow a known pattern as one API differs from another API. So in order to attack the API, the attacker needs to figure out how it works and how he is going to be able to attack it. This can take time and a series of attempts. In this clip, McLean explains why defense mechanisms need to be different compared to cloud and traditional security.

About Michelle McLean: Michelle has more than 20 years of market positioning, GTM, and demand gen experience at a variety of enterprise security and other software companies. She’s held marketing leadership roles at StackRox, ScaleArc, Silver Spring Networks, and Peribit Networks. She advised clients on technology and strategy at research firm META Group and started her career as a technology journalist. Michelle earned her BA in English from the University of California at Berkeley.

About Salt Security: Salt Security protects the APIs that form the core of every modern application. Its API Protection Platform is the industry’s first patented solution to prevent the next generation of API attacks, using machine learning and AI to automatically and continuously identify and protect APIs. Deployed in minutes, the Salt Security platform learns the granular behavior of a company’s APIs and requires no configuration or customization to pinpoint and block API attackers. Salt Security was founded in 2016 by alumni of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and serial entrepreneur executives in the cybersecurity field and is based in Silicon Valley and Israel.