Protecting organizations from today's cutting-edge threats continues to be a challenge, with APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) playing an increasingly central and vulnerable role, especially as digital transformation continues. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (CSF) release emphasizes the urgency of addressing evolving threats and emphasizes the importance of governance in cybersecurity. Salt Security provides an API risk management platform that focuses on API Posture Governance and works seamlessly with updated NIST CSF guidelines.
What is the difference between NIST CSF 2.0?
The revised framework introduces several updates that will impact how organizations should approach their cybersecurity strategy.
- explicit governance: The new “governance” function requires establishing policies, procedures, and risk management strategies to oversee an organization's cybersecurity efforts. “Governance” is also an important part of management communication risk.
- broader inclusivity: CSF 2.0 applies to organizations in a variety of industries and sizes, as well as those in the critical infrastructure sector.
- Results-oriented adaptability: Emphasizing profiles and hierarchies means companies can customize their compliance and security approach based on their specific risk tolerance and business needs.
The critical role of APIs Risk mitigation and governance
APIs are the connective tissue of modern digital operations. The increasing prevalence and use of CSFs raises significant concerns for companies seeking CSF adjustments.
- security gap: As API usage explodes, traditional security tools can struggle to keep up, leaving your organization's API ecosystem with less visibility and less protection.
- Rising data risk: Vulnerabilities in APIs that frequently process sensitive data can lead to harmful leaks and violate compliance regulations.
- Governance challenges: Inconsistent API standards across internal teams such as security, development, and IT can create security weaknesses throughout your organization.
Salt Security's API Posture Governance Solution
Salt Security's strength lies in addressing these API-specific challenges head-on within the context of CSF 2.0.
- Comprehensive understanding of APIs: Salt Security continuously discovers, maps, and inventories APIs through an MLI-driven engine. This gives you visibility into your organization's entire API footprint and eliminates shadow and zombie APIs.
- Policy-driven governance: Organizations can use pre-built policies or establish their own granular policies tied to API design, authentication, and access controls, streamlining compliance and ensuring consistency across all APIs. Security can be ensured.
- Risk-based prioritization: Salt's behavioral analytics pinpoint anomalous API activity, highlight APIs that may exhibit high risk levels, and help teams establish remediation priorities to protect what matters most. Helpful.
- richness of ecosystem: Salt's platform seamlessly integrates with a variety of platforms such as WAFs, API gateways, and DAST tools to provide deep insights into API risk and usage patterns and support data-driven decision-making aligned to CSF. Masu.
How Salt Security fits into the NIST CSF 2.0 mandate
The synergy between Salt Security and CSF 2.0 provides tangible benefits for organizations:
- Strengthening governance: Salt Security works with CSF's Governance capabilities to make API posture governance and security the core of a comprehensive risk management strategy.
- Data-driven decision making: Real-time visibility into API risk patterns drives informed cybersecurity investments.
- Customizable compliance: Salt Security's Posture Governance Engine helps shape a CSF profile tailored to a specific organization's needs and risk tolerance.
Take-out
Salt Security's API Posture Governance approach stands out as a solution that strengthens an enterprise's security posture in an ever-evolving cyber threat landscape. The platform's natural alignment with the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 positions it as a critical solution for organizations that prioritize cybersecurity governance and establish robust API security programs.
*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog of the Salt Security blog written by Eric Schwake. Read the original post: https://salt.security/blog/salt-security-api-posture-governance-and-the-nist-cybersecurity-framework-2-0
