Name: Best Practices to Tame the Monster API Problem
Start: 2025-04-24T17:00:00Z
End: 2025-04-24T17:00:44.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 2

Salt Security is an API Security company with the only solution that governs and protects your APIs across the entire API Lifecycle.

AI agents aren’t just talking, they’re taking actions. They’re booking transactions, pulling sensitive data, and chaining tools together to get work done. As enterprises embrace these agents, protocols like the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) are enabling powerful new capabilities, but also creating invisible ecosystems of API-driven agent activity that traditional security tools can’t see or control.
In this session, we’ll walk through the newest Salt platform updates, including MCP Protect for complete visibility into Model Context Protocol traffic and out-of-the-box agentic AI policies enabled by default. You’ll learn how to identify blind spots, strengthen governance, and reduce risk, starting from first login.

Securing Agentic AI: Visibility and Protection for MCP Servers and A2A Traffic

AI agents are transforming how leading companies operate, delivering 24/7 customer service, processing thousands of transactions, and driving unprecedented operational efficiency. 

Over half (53%) of organizations are already deploying AI agents for customer-facing tasks, with market leaders running hundreds or thousands of agents to gain a competitive advantage.

These agents handle sensitive data, trigger transactions, and make autonomous decisions at machine speed. But the APIs that power them are becoming a vast, overlooked attack surface. 

In this executive session, Salt Security Co-Founder & COO Michael Nicosia will show you how agentic AI is both a catalyst for growth and a ticking security time bomb.

You'll learn why failing to adapt your API security strategy today risks millions in damages, regulatory penalties, and irreparable customer trust. 

We’ll show you: 
- How API security enables market leaders to accelerate AI adoption and operational efficiency
- Essential infrastructure decisions that determine whether your AI agents become profit drivers or liability creators
- How to secure first-mover advantage while competitors deal with preventable breaches, regulatory penalties, and customer trust erosion that can set them back years

Your AI strategy won't work without API security. The time to act is now, before a single compromised agent brings down your entire operation.

The CISO's AI Dilemma:  How Security Leaders Are Making or Breaking Their Company's Future

No Fluff, Just Real-World Threats

This isn’t your typical marketing webinar. We will cover what Agentic AI actually looks like in production, how MCP servers work to broker instructions, and what kind of new threats are emerging.

Agentic AI isn’t coming. It’s already here. Autonomous agents are now operating in production environments, reasoning, remembering, and taking real actions across your systems. They’re not just generating content. They’re triggering workflows, modifying records, and making decisions. And they’re doing it over APIs.

For CISOs, this represents a major shift in the risk landscape. You’re now dealing with a new layer of autonomous behavior, powered by Model Context Protocol (MCP), that is invisible to most current security tools.

In the session, we’ll cover:
- What Agentic AI is and how it’s changing your risk profile
- Practical attack scenarios against AI agents and MCP servers
- Why and how API traffic is exploding and going largely unmonitored
- How Salt is uniquely positioned to help you see and secure this new API fabric
- What actions you can take now to protect your organization

Whether you're hands-on in security or responsible for the broader strategy, this session will give you real, actionable insights — not marketing slides.

When AI Agents Go Rogue: What You're Missing in Your MCP Security

Artificial intelligence is rapidly evolving from a supportive role to a set of autonomous agents that manage your applications. This change, driven by complex API interactions, fosters innovation but also raises new security and governance issues. How can you ensure your AI and machine-to-cloud communications remain secure and function correctly?

A modern approach involves a layered, defense-in-depth strategy. While basic services like AWS WAF are vital for perimeter security against known threats, the dynamic and context-rich nature of AI-generated API traffic requires an additional layer of intelligent supervision.

In this webinar, AWS and Salt Security leaders will discuss building a comprehensive security and governance framework suited for the future. We’ll show how these solutions collaborate to protect your most critical applications end-to-end.

You will learn:

● The Rise of Agentic AI: How autonomous agents are changing application behavior and impacting your API attack surface.

● AI and Machine Governance: How to attain vital visibility and enforce security policies for AI-driven and machine-to-cloud (MCP) API traffic, ensuring compliance and proper operation.

● A Modern Defense-in-Depth Strategy: How AWS WAF provides initial protection, supported by a dedicated API security platform’s deep analysis of context and behavior.

● Intelligent Threat Detection: How advanced AI techniques can differentiate between legitimate and malicious API traffic, enhancing your WAF's protection.

● Future-Ready Frameworks: Practical methods to develop a resilient, multi-layered security system that grows with your AI efforts.

Leave with a clear plan to integrate AWS and Salt Security, safeguarding your APIs and preparing for future challenges.

Stronger Together: Complete API Defense with AWS + Salt

In the modern business world, the extensive adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has opened doors to innovation and growth that we never thought possible. But with hyper speed comes room for error. Join us in this insightful webinar, where we dive deep into the massive use of AI in business and explore the hidden risks that come with AI-generated APIs. Learn about the new vulnerabilities that arise with this method of development and hear how Salt Security is using AI in our platform to mitigate risk.

Key Takeaways:

Understanding the AI-Driven API Landscape: Grasp how AI is transforming the creation and utilization of APIs, accelerating innovation but also exposing new vulnerabilities.
Risk Assessment and Governance: Learn about the specific risks associated with AI-generated APIs and discover best practices for assessing and mitigating these threats.
Salt Security AI-Powered Approach: Discover how Salt Security has embraced the power of AI to enhance API discovery, strengthen governance posture, and implement advanced threat detection to safeguard your business.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to gain valuable insights into the rapidly evolving world of AI and APIs.

How Salt Infuses AI into every step of the API Security Journey

Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) analysts project that in 24 months, 78% of organizations’ applications will use APIs. This API proliferation—exacerbated by the break-neck pace of AI app development—complicates the process of gaining clear visibility into your APIs, including their context and ownership.  

Without this visibility, insecure APIs abound. And weeding out undercover, sophisticated threats, by sorting through large amounts of anomalous traffic, is like finding a needle in a haystack. 

Watch this exclusive Fireside Chat on or after April 24, 2025 with ESG Principal Analyst of Network Security John Grady, and Director of Cybersecurity Strategy at Salt Security Eric Schwake, as the pair explain how to improve API protection and the benefits of purpose-built API security tools.

After tuning in, you’ll understand how Salt Security helps organizations gather a comprehensive inventory of their APIs and deploy intent-based protection to detect and block misuse.

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