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 companies can do to better prepare for API attacks. She explains the need for Dev teams to gain a better understanding of API security as well as the need for security teams to understand APIs better. McLean notes that they have seen a good increase in the number of organizations using the OWASP API Top 10, which she feels is a good starting point. Security operations need to get a better understanding of API incidents, what call response pairs look like, and what normal looks like so that they can identify an attack. Another consideration, McLean points out is the evolving of security tooling to meet the needs of the changing application landscape.

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.