APIs are crucial in our digital world, but they also introduce new vulnerabilities. Attackers often exploit these vulnerabilities by concealing malicious payloads within encrypted traffic, rendering them undetectable to traditional security tools. As we observe Cybersecurity Awareness Month, it's important to emphasize the significance of advanced solutions that can detect hidden threats.
eBPF: Illuminating the Dark Corners of API TrafficeBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) is a powerful method for inspecting network traffic, including encrypted traffic. It works within the Linux kernel to analyze API calls at a detailed level, identifying and blocking malicious activity with speed and efficiency. eBPF provides significant advantages in detecting and responding to hidden API threats without complex decryption processes.
Why eBPF Matters for API SecurityeBPF offers several key advantages for API security:
Salt Security, a leader in API security, has utilized eBPF to gain exceptional visibility into encrypted API traffic. By leveraging eBPF, Salt Security can:
The evolving nature of API attacks highlights the increasing importance of eBPF in API security. With its ability to offer comprehensive visibility, high performance, and flexibility, eBPF enables security teams to proactively protect their APIs from advanced threats, especially when combined with next-generation security solutions like Salt Security. Salt Security's incorporation of eBPF support demonstrates the potential for this technology to revolutionize how organizations approach API security. eBPF will be a critical component of our future API protection capabilities, allowing us to achieve comprehensive security across all layers by integrating it with our existing AI-powered engine. This integration will facilitate the identification and mitigation of threats at both the kernel and application levels, providing unparalleled protection against sophisticated attacks.
If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you on your API Security journey through discovery, posture management, and run-time threat protection, please contact us, schedule a demo, or check out our website.
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Modern businesses are increasingly reliant on APIs. They are the building blocks facilitating data exchange and communication between disparate systems. Because of their prevalence and importance, they are also under attack by actors exploiting vulnerabilities and misconfigurations. Unauthorized access, data exposure, injection attacks, broken authentication, DoS attacks, shadow or unmanaged APIs, insecure API dependencies, and [...]
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Our sincere thanks to USENIX, and the Presenters & Authors for publishing their superb 21st USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '24) content, placing the organizations enduring commitment to Open Access front and center. Originating from the conference’s events situated at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara; and via the organizations YouTube channel.
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