Salt Security: Enterprise-Grade API Security with Fine-Grained Authorization

Meta Description: How Salt Security integrated Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) to enhance security, compliance, and user flexibility.

Salt Security just took enterprise API protection one step further with Fine-Grained Authorization Powered by Permit.io!

A leading API security company serving Fortune 500 enterprises and large-scale technology companies, Salt Security’s platform provides security teams with real-time API visibility, risk assessment, and attack prevention. That makes authorization a critical part of their infrastructure.

As Salt grew, its customers demanded more control over roles, permissions, and integrations with identity providers. To meet these expectations, Salt’s engineering team needed a flexible and scalable authorization system.

This case study explores how Salt’s Platform Engineering Team turned to implementing Fine-Grained Authorization (FGA) with Permit.io to handle dynamic roles, policy-based access, and large-scale identity integrations rather than building a complex access control system from scratch.

Here’s how Salt Security transformed its platform to deliver enterprise-grade flexibility, speed, and compliance—and what your organization can learn from its journey.

Watch the full case study here:

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The Challenge: Enterprise-Level Authorization Demands

For security companies, the main focus of authorization is enabling customers to confidently manage their own security policies.

As Salt Security’s enterprise customer base expanded, they needed to scale their role-based access control (RBAC) system to support:

Custom role definitions, so customers could map permissions to their own teams.
Seamless identity provider integration, enabling customers to sync roles with their existing authentication systems.
Granular authorization policies that allow flexible access control at the tenant, team, and environment levels.