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HCL AppScan API Security: embedded API security for enterprise-scale transformation

APIs drive modern business. Salt and HCLSoftware keep them secure. Together, we deliver smart, scalable API security to fuel digital transformation across industries. Whether it's modernizing banking infrastructure, scaling retail platforms, or ensuring healthcare compliance, our integrated solution provides the protection and intelligence needed to keep critical services secure and resilient.

Why Salt + HCLSoftware?

Recognized as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Application Security Testing, HCLSoftware leads global enterprises through complex digital transformations. Salt ensures those journeys are secure from day one:

Combined capabilities:

  • Integrate seamlessly into HCL DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
  • Build and enforce vertical-specific posture and compliance standards
  • Co-develop threat detection and incident response playbooks
  • Extend API visibility across hybrid, legacy, and multi-cloud architectures

End-to-end API security starts here

Salt’s API discovery and posture governance, combined with HCL AppScan’s security testing,
provide a complete solution to identify, assess, and secure APIs with speed and precision.

Continuous discovery:
AI-infused discovery platform to find and inventory all your API assets
Posture governance:
Advanced Posture Governance engine for custom policies and risk prioritization
Dynamic analysis:
Hyper accurate API-specific DAST vulnerability testing
“With Salt integrated from the start, we give clients both the visibility and the protection they need as they modernize critical systems.”
—HCL Program Lead

Key benefits

Verticalized readiness:
Tailored to regulated industries with specific API risk profiles
Compliance confidence:
Automated discovery and posture evidence for audits
Global scalability:
Designed to handle large, complex
API ecosystems across environments
Faster time to value:
Quick deployment and integration for
immediate security insights

Together, Salt and HCLSoftware provide a security-first foundation for digital transformation, enabling faster innovation, reduced risk, and enterprise-grade resilience from API to app.

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