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The 2022 Tech Innovator Awards
Rick Whiting
From among more than 260 applicants, CRN staff selected products spanning the IT industry – including in cloud, infrastructure, security, storage and devices – that offer ground-breaking functionality, differentiation and partner opportunity.

Security: Data Security
Winner: Salt Security API Protection Platform
The Salt Security API Protection Platform identifies risks and vulnerabilities in APIs across their entire build, deploy and runtime life cycle before they are exploited by attackers. It combines data with AI and machine learning to baseline millions of users and APIs to detect the reconnaissance activity of bad actors and block them. Through its API Context Engine architecture, the Salt platform provides API design analysis in pre-production, discovers all APIs and the sensitive data they expose, pinpoints and stops API attackers, and provides remediation insight learned during runtime that developers use to harden APIs. Salt‘s runtime protection prevents data exfiltration, account takeovers and service disruption.
Finalists:
Deep Instinct Prevention for Applications
Keeper Security One-Time Share