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Roey Eliyahu

CEO & Co-Founder, Salt Security

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Recent appearances

  • The Security & Compliance Show: Securing the Enterprise in the Age of AI Agents

    May 07, 2026 · 📺 UC Today News

    In this UC Today roundtable, host Kristian McCann brings together leading security experts to confront the escalating risks of agentic AI—autonomous systems that make decisions, take actions, and roam across enterprise tech stacks often without human oversight. You’ll hear from Irina Tsukerman, President at Scarab Rising; Shlomi Beer, Co-Founder & CEO at ImpersonAlly; and Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder & CEO at Salt Security. Together, they reveal how rapid adoption in customer support, sales, and finance is outstripping governance, enabling silent breaches via prompt injections, privilege accumulat…

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  • Everyone is Deploying AI Agents. Almost Nobody Knows What They're Doing

    April 06, 2026 · 📺 Salt Security

    AI agents are operating inside your enterprise; querying databases, triggering workflows, and taking action through APIs. As AI agents are adopted, organizations cannot see, track, or control what these agents are actually doing. In this session, Roey Eliyahu, Co-Founder and CEO of Salt Security, challenges the industry’s narrow focus on LLM safety and exposes the much larger, invisible attack surface created by agentic systems. Today’s security tools focus on the “brain.” But AI agents don’t just reason, they act. They operate across three interconnected layers: LLMs (reasoning), MCP server…

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  • Agentic Era: The Myths and Realities of It All

    December 17, 2025 · 📺 Salt Security

    After four sessions covering the technical realities, business imperatives, and security challenges of agentic AI, Salt Security’s Co-Founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu, and Salt's CMO Michael Callahan, come together for an unfiltered conversation about where the industry actually stands and where it's headed. The gap between AI ambition and operational readiness has never been wider. While 53% of organizations are already deploying AI agents and many are running 6–20+ different agent types, only 37% have dedicated API security in place, and most have limited visibility into what their agents are…

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  • MCP Security: How Rogue AI Agents Leak Data and Get Exploited

    December 09, 2025 · 📺 Salt Security

    In this webinar, we cover what Agentic AI actually looks like in production, how MCP servers work to broker instructions, and what kind of new threats are emerging. Roey Eliyahu and Aviad Carmel from Salt Security walk through what MCP security actually means once AI agents start calling your APIs in production. They cover how large language models, AI agents, and Model Context Protocol servers fit together, then move into three attack scenarios drawn from real API traffic: prompt injection with privilege escalation, shadow MCP servers exposed by accident, and sensitive data leaking to third-…

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  • Securing AI Agents: How to See MCP Servers and A2A Traffic with Salt Security

    December 09, 2025 · 📺 Salt Security

    AI agents have moved past conversation into action. They book transactions, pull sensitive data, and chain tools together through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Agent-to-Agent (A2A) traffic. Every one of those actions runs on APIs, and that connective tissue is where the risk sits. Salt Security Co-Founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu and VP of Product Strategy Nick Rago walk through the risks in the agentic action layer and show what Salt does about them. Roey frames the three buckets of risk that AI agents create: an expanding attack surface, sensitive data leakage through connected systems,…

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  • From Quiet Niche To Explosive Growth: How AI Agents Are Transforming API Security #0030 Roey Eliyahu

    December 04, 2025 · 📺 The Spiro Circle

    In 2016, Salt Security Co-founder and CEO Roey Eliyahu spotted a risk few others were focused on. As the internet evolved and companies became increasingly dependent on APIs to power their digital services, he recognized that vulnerabilities hidden in those interfaces would soon become one of the most significant threats facing businesses across every sector. Together with Co-founder and COO Michael Nicosia, Eliyahu built what would become the first dedicated platform for securing API-driven systems, and more recently, the AI agents and MCP servers now powering the next wave of automation. T…

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  • How to Win by Putting Customer Success First — Not Just Security

    August 15, 2025 · 📺 Innovators Inside

    What makes Salt Security stand out in a crowded cybersecurity market? It's not just their product — it’s their obsession with solving real customer problems. Roey Eliyahu explains how Salt Security’s customer-first mindset shapes every part of the business: Building solutions by identifying pain points before writing code Designing the fastest API discovery experience on the market Creating a Policy Hub to simplify posture governance for clients Measuring internal success by outcomes: attacks blocked, vulnerabilities fixed Ian Bergman and Roey discuss why true innovation means preparing…

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  • Founder's Corner, Episode 9

    July 24, 2025 · 📺 Salt Security

    Thank you for tuning into Episode 9 of our Founder’s Corner Podcast with Salt’s CEO and Co-Founder, Roey Eliyahu, and CMO, Michael Callahan. For more information on Agentic AI and MCP, join us for our webinar on July 29th → https://content.salt.security/25-07-2... #FoundersCornerPodcast #podcast #podcasts #podcastseries #APIsecurity #AgenticAI #MCP #ai #cybersecurity #apis #CEO #CMO #thoughtleadership

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  • Salt Illuminate: AI-Native API Security Deployed in Minutes, No Architecture Required

    July 10, 2025 · 📺 TFiR

    In this in-depth interview, Salt Security CEO and Co-founder Roey Eliyahu introduces Salt Illuminate, a breakthrough platform for API security that requires no prior architecture knowledge and deploys in minutes—not weeks. Roey explains how Illuminate enables immediate discovery of API surfaces using passive external scanning, followed by seamless integration into cloud environments (AWS, Azure, API gateways, etc.) using read-only access. The platform’s innovation lies in its simplicity: advanced threat detection, API behavior monitoring, and AI agent governance—all through a self-serve interf…

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  • Ep1141: Securing APIs at Enterprise Scale with Roey Eliyahu

    May 11, 2025 · 📺 The Matias Experiment

    At nine, Roey Eliyahu was already coding. By 11, he was freelancing. His path from an IDF cybersecurity unit to founding Salt Security reflects a deep understanding of how microservices and GenAI transformed APIs from simple gateways to complex security risks. He shares why discovery, governance, and protection are now essential pillars for any enterprise navigating rapid innovation—and how early insights shaped a category-defining solution. #20MinuteLeaders #APISecurity #CybersecurityLeadership #EnterpriseTech

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  • API Security, Governance, and Generative AI's impact on API Development with Roey Eliyahu | CPP 346

    May 07, 2025 · 📺 The Cyber Pro

    Rick and Roey discussed the importance of API security. Roey, the CEO of Salt Security, explained that APIs are like doors and windows in a building, and they need to be properly secured and monitored. He emphasized the need for a solution that can quickly discover all APIs, govern them, and protect them against malicious attacks. Roey also mentioned that their solution can detect and prevent unauthorized access to sensitive data. Roey explained the concept of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) as the glue that connects systems and enables data exchange between them. He used examples l…

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  • Founder's Corner, Episode 8

    April 17, 2025 · 📺 Salt Security

    Welcome to Episode 8 of Founder's Corner 🧂 Join Salt’s CEO and Co-founder, Roey Eliyahu, and CMO, Michael Callahan, as they discuss Gen AI and its impact on API security. Key coverage: How Gen AI is being utilized in the creation of APIs What the reliance of Gen AI in coding can lead to Pros and cons of AI in the API security space How Salt uses AI to combat security threats Be proactive in your API Security. Learn more on our site: https://salt.security/?utm_source=you...

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