Salt Security vs Wiz
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API security platform using AI and behavioral ML to discover shadow APIs, prevent attacks, and identify vulnerabilities across the full API lifecycle. Serves Fortune 500 enterprises protecting complex multi-cloud API environments.
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Salt Security is an API security platform that applies machine learning to API traffic analysis to address the three core challenges of enterprise API security: discovering the complete API attack surface including shadow and zombie APIs, identifying and blocking sophisticated API attacks in real time, and finding API vulnerabilities before attackers exploit them. The platform ingests API traffic at scale through integration with existing API gateways, load balancers, and network taps, building an always-current inventory of every API in the environment and learning the behavioral patterns of legitimate API usage. This behavioral baseline enables Salt's detection engine to identify attacks that deviate from normal patterns — including credential stuffing, broken object level authorization abuse, excessive data exposure, and multi-step account takeover flows — that conventional signature-based defenses cannot catch because they match legitimate request formats.
Cloud security platform acquired by Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) for $32B in March 2025 — cybersecurity's largest-ever acquisition; grew from $0 to $500M ARR in 4 years with agentless Security Graph competing with Orca.
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Wiz is a New York-based cloud security platform — acquired by Alphabet/Google (NASDAQ: GOOGL) in a $32 billion deal announced in March 2025 (the largest cybersecurity acquisition in history) — that had raised $900 million at a $12 billion valuation from Andreessen Horowitz, Lightspeed, Sequoia, and Index Ventures before the acquisition. Founded in 2020 by Assaf Rappaport and four co-founders (former Unit 8200 cyber intelligence officers and Microsoft Azure security alumni), Wiz grew from $0 to $500 million ARR in four years — the fastest SaaS company to reach $500M ARR in history — by providing agentless cloud security visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
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