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

Michelle McLean, VP of Marketing at Salt Security, explains how malicious traffic is defined and what characteristics it may have. Salt Security’s platform looks across millions of users and API calls and builds a baseline of what is normal for any given environment. Potentially malicious traffic is defined as different from normal traffic but McLean notes that you can’t decide if it is malicious straight away. Malicious activity is defined by the pattern of activity over time. McLean explains how malicious traffic can be defined and it is recognised by the Salt Security platform.

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.