Apple chose Google's Gemini over ChatGPT for Siri's AI upgrade. This $1B/year deal reveals who's actually winning the AI race—and it's not who you think.
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Vault sprawl means duplicated secrets, fragmented access, and unclear ownership. Learn how GitGuardian's NHI Governance restores control across the enterprise.
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Introduction Following the release of Amazon Bedrock Powered by AWS Mantle, I discovered a mechanism to bypass Service Control Policy (SCP) statements limiting the use of bedrock-mantle IAM permissions. By leveraging long-lived API keys backed by Service Specific Credentials, I was able to successfully leverage bedrock-mantle:CreateInference despite an SCP statement denying that action. SCPs are […]
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Originally published at How SmugMug Strengthened Email Authentication and Deliverability with EasyDMARC by Sona Mirzoyan.
About the Customer Company: SmugMug Industry: Image Hosting ...
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In many organizations, there is a dangerous unspoken rule: The SOC handles endpoints and networks; Engineering handles APIs.
This silo creates a massive blind spot. We recently spoke with the Senior Manager of Security Engineering at a major insurance provider, who described this exact pain point. Before bringing in Salt Security, their API security was effectively an "engineering function."
The SecOps team had world-class visibility into their laptops and servers via CrowdStrike, but their API traffic, the very lifeblood of their digital business, was a black box. They relied on a traditional WAF, logs, and SIEM.
The problem? As the customer noted, "These weren't volumetric attacks or malformed requests... but behavioral attacks operating inside legitimate API usage patterns."
The Visibility Gap: You Can't Protect What You Can't SeeBefore you can secure your APIs, you have to know they exist. This customer faced a common challenge: they lacked a "living view" of their API fabric.
Like many enterprises, they relied on their API Gateway for inventory. But gateways only see what is routed through them. They are blind to "shadow" endpoints, legacy versions, and direct-to-origin connections that bypass the gateway entirely.
The customer noted that while they could perform manual investigations via the gateway, they "lacked a complete, continuously updated inventory" required to spot drift or anomalies. By integrating Salt, they automatically generated a granular, real-time inventory of every API endpoint, including the ones the gateway missed, giving the SOC the map they needed to defend the territory.
The Limits of WAF + SIEMThe customer’s experience highlights a critical industry reality: Traditional stacks cannot catch modern API threats.
The customer found that without a dedicated, AI-powered behavioral engine for API security, they couldn't distinguish between a user aggressively using the platform and an attacker slowly enumerating IDs to scrape sensitive data.
Breaking the Silo with CrowdStrike + SaltThe turning point came when the customer stopped treating API security as a standalone problem.
By integrating Salt Security with CrowdStrike Falcon, they didn't just buy a new tool; they expanded their existing ecosystem.
While this customer’s immediate goal was stopping human attackers, their architectural shift has prepared them for a much larger threat: Agentic AI.
The "logic abuse" patterns they detected, low-and-slow enumeration, unauthorized data scraping, are the exact behaviors AI Agents will automate at scale using the Model Context Protocol (MCP). By deploying Salt’s behavioral engine today, they haven’t just solved a current gap; they’ve inoculated their environment against the coming surge of machine-to-machine traffic that traditional WAFs will be completely blind to.
The Result: Operationalized SecurityThe customer's feedback was clear: "We maximized our existing platform investment and simplified operations by avoiding yet another point tool."
This is the future of API security. It isn't about buying more dashboards for your team to ignore. It's about feeding high-fidelity behavioral intelligence into the platforms you already trust. It’s about taking API security out of the "Engineering" silo and putting it right where it belongs: in the SOC.
If you want to learn more about Salt and how we can help you, please contact us, schedule a demo, or visit our website. You can also get a free API Attack Surface Assessment from Salt Security's research team and learn what attackers already know.
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Explore how Windows CardSpace’s 'Identity Agent' architecture paved the way for modern Passkeys and secure password management in 2026.
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Simplify access with Enterprise SSO for WordPress portals. Secure, seamless single sign-on integration for your enterprise users.
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Researchers investigated the zero-knowledge claims of password managers—and found some possible attack scenarios.
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The Problem with the Traditional Idea of a Site For a long time, the concept of a “site” in networking and security was synonymous with a physical office. This included: a headquarters building a branch office a campus connected to the corporate network This traditional model was built on several assumptions: employees primarily worked from...
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TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy update went viral—especially language about sensitive data like immigration status and precise location—and argue much of it reflects longstanding practices and required California […]
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An single threat actor used AI tools to create and run a campaign that compromised more then 600 Fortinet FortiGate appliances around the world over five weeks, according to Amazon threat researchers, the latest example of how cybercriminals are using the technology in their attacks.
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Secure your MCP hosts with quantum-resistant identity and access management. Learn about lattice-based signatures, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, and 4D context-aware security.
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This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Zach Hinkle and MinJi Pae about TikTok's new American ownership—and it's new rules.
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How Can Organizations Protect Their Systems with Non-Human Identities? Have you ever considered the critical role that Non-Human Identities (NHIs) play in safeguarding your organization’s cybersecurity? Organizations are increasingly resorting to NHIs to maintain robust security protocols. These machine identities, a combination of encrypted passwords, tokens, or keys known as “Secrets,” are crucial for ensuring […]
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How Does Non-Human Identity Management Boost Security in AI Architecture? What is the role of Non-Human Identity (NHI) management in securing AI-driven architecture? With cybersecurity professionals grapple with the complexities of protecting digital environments, the management of NHIs stands as a critical strategy in enhancing security measures. Where systems autonomously make decisions, the protection of […]
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Are Non-Human Identities the New Frontier in Cybersecurity? Where cyber threats loom large, an often-overlooked challenge is the protection and management of Non-Human Identities (NHIs). Cybersecurity is evolving rapidly, and professionals across various sectors are increasingly recognizing the strategic importance of NHIs. But what exactly are these identities, and why should cybersecurity experts be optimistic […]
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Are DevOps Teams Finding Relief with Automated NHI Lifecycle Management? The integration of Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and Secrets Security Management into DevOps processes has emerged as a crucial strategy. But how exactly is this automation impacting the workflow and peace of mind for DevOps teams? The Growing Importance of NHIs in Cybersecurity Non-Human Identities, often […]
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The University of Mississippi Medical Center shut down operations at its 35 medical clinics around the state following a ransomware attack. Healthcare facilities are top targets for cybercriminals, who look to steal the sensitive data they hold for both money and intelligence gathering.
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Session 13B: API Security
Authors, Creators & Presenters: Yi Yang (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Jinghua Liu (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Kai Chen (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China), Miaoqian Lin (Institute of Information Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China; School of Cyber Security, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
PAPER
The Midas Touch: Triggering the Capability of LLMs for RM-API Misuse Detection
As the basis of software resource management (RM), strictly following the RM-API constraints guarantees secure resource management and software. To enhance the RM-API application, researchers find it effective in detecting RM-API misuse on open-source software according to RM-API constraints retrieved from documentation and code. However, the current pattern-matching constraint retrieval methods have limitations: the documentation-based methods leave many API constraints irregularly distributed or involving neutral sentiment undiscovered; the code-based methods result in many false bugs due to incorrect API usage since not all high-frequency usages are correct. Therefore, people propose to utilize Large Language Models (LLMs) for RM-API constraint retrieval with their potential on text analysis and generation. However, directly using LLMs has limitations due to the hallucinations. The LLMs fabricate answers without expertise leaving many RM APIs undiscovered and generating incorrect answers even with evidence introducing incorrect RM-API constraints and false bugs. In this paper, we propose an LLM-empowered RM-API misuse detection solution, ChatDetector, which fully automates LLMs for documentation understanding which helps RM-API constraints retrieval and RM-API misuse detection. To correctly retrieve the RM-API constraints, ChatDetector is inspired by the ReAct framework which is optimized based on Chain-of-Thought (CoT) to decompose the complex task into allocation APIs identification, RM-object (allocated/released by RM APIs) extraction and RM-APIs pairing (RM APIs usually exist in pairs). It first verifies the semantics of allocation APIs based on the retrieved RM sentences from API documentation through LLMs. Inspired by the LLMs' performance on various prompting methods, ChatDetector adopts a two-dimensional prompting approach for cross-validation. At the same time, an inconsistency-checking approach between the LLMs' output and the reasoning process is adopted for the allocation APIs confirmation with an off-the-shelf Natural Language Processing (NLP) tool. To accurately pair the RM-APIs, ChatDetector decomposes the task again and identifies the RM-object type first, with which it can then accurately pair the releasing APIs and further construct the RM-API constraints for misuse detection. With the diminished hallucinations, ChatDetector identifies 165 pairs of RM-APIs with a precision of 98.21% compared with the state-of-the-art API detectors. By employing a static detector CodeQL, we ethically report 115 security bugs on the applications integrating on six popular libraries to the developers, which may result in severe issues, such as Denial-of-Services (DoS) and memory corruption. Compared with the end-to-end benchmark method, the result shows that ChatDetector can retrieve at least 47% more RM sentences and 80.85% more RM-API constraints. Since no work exists specified in utilizing LLMs for RM-API misuse detection to our best knowledge, the inspiring results show that LLMs can assist in generating more constraints beyond expertise and can be used for bug detection. It also indicates that future research could transfer from overcoming the bottlenecks of traditional NLP tools to creatively utilizing LLMs for security research.
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“We do not know how long this situation may last. As a precaution, all of our IT systems have been taken down, and a risk assessment will be conducted before we bring things back up.” Vice Chancellor LouAnn Woodward of the University of Mississippi Medical Center uttered these words standing before cameras on Thursday, February […]
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