Case Study: DeinDeal achieves complete API visibility and behavioral protection with Salt Security

DeinDealy - Customer Case Study

DeinDeal, the leading Swiss flash‑sales platform behind deindeal.ch and my-store.ch, needed to rationalize and secure a new, unified API-first architecture after merging platforms. CTO Alexandre Branquart found traditional web protections (WAF, bot management) insufficient for APIs because they lost browser context and couldn’t reliably distinguish legitimate API calls, so DeinDeal engaged Salt Security for an API‑centric solution.

Salt Security deployed its API Protection Platform to auto-discover and inventory DeinDeal’s APIs (including legacy endpoints), generate Swagger definitions, baseline normal behavior with ML/AI, and automatically block abusive traffic. The Salt Security deployment revealed forgotten APIs and problematic routes, helped remediate bugs, prevented attacks, and gave DeinDeal confidence to keep older API versions active—avoiding forced app updates—while improving overall API security and remediation insight.

DeinDeal

Alexandre Branquart

Chief Technology Officer