Salt Security, a leader in API security, is releasing the Salt Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server to offer enterprise teams a novel access point of interaction with their API infrastructure, leveraging natural language and artificial intelligence (AI).
Built on the open MCP standard, Salt’s MCP Server enables AI agents to discover, understand, and analyze API behavior with contextual awareness and enterprise-grade precision.
According to the company, an MCP server acts as an intelligent gateway, translating natural language prompts into authorized, structured queries while enforcing strict security, governance, and usage policies.
For API security, the rise of MCP servers is critical, the company said. They create a controlled interface between AI agents and enterprise APIs—ensuring that API endpoints are not blindly exposed, over-permissioned, or misused by autonomous systems. Without an MCP server, APIs risk becoming a hidden attack surface for AI-driven reconnaissance, data leaks, or abuse.
Salt’s MCP server creates a personal ChatGPT experience for our customers with new capabilities such as:
- Contextual API Search: Contextual search across their entire API inventory rather than a limited keyword-based search.
- API Explainer: Explain the use and functionality of each API in your environment so security teams can be more independent.
- Posture Gap Contextual Search and Analysis: Allow security teams to identify API posture gaps and misconfigurations in a free form search.
- Remediation Guidance: Offers AI-driven, actionable recommendations to mitigate high risk vulnerabilities.
And many more powerful capabilities to interact with the Salt API security platform in a natural language.
By combining Salt's patented API intelligence with the new MCP standard, Salt's platform offers a seamless, secure way to bridge human, AI, and API interactions—setting a new bar for proactive security and operational efficiency.
The Salt MCP Server is available now through the Salt Early Access Program. Organizations interested in early access can request a demo at salt.security.
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