Founders Corner

Salt Security was born from a realization that the way companies build and connect applications had changed, but security hadn’t kept up. When APIs became the backbone of digital innovation, Roey Eliyahu and Michael Nicosia saw an entirely new attack surface emerging, one that traditional tools couldn’t see or protect.

Drawing on Roey’s experience in Israel’s elite cyber units and Michael’s deep enterprise and cloud security background, they founded Salt Security to solve that problem. Their mission was simple but bold: make it safer and easier for organizations to innovate by securing the APIs that power every digital experience.

Instead of relying on static, rule-based tools, they built a platform that uses AI and big data to automatically discover, understand, and protect APIs in real time. What started as a response to an invisible risk has now become a category-defining company at the heart of API and AI-driven security.