Escape - The API Security Blog

How DoubleVerify Achieved Full API Visibility and Security with Wiz and Escape

Discover how implementing Escape x Wiz integration helped the DoubleVerify AppSec team achieve full API visibility and accelerate targeted remediation.

Application Security

The Alternative to Acunetix: Escape DAST

If you're searching for a reliable Acunetix alternative, you’ve probably come across a few options. Acunetix (and its advanced version, Invicti (formerly Netsparker DAST) is widely used for web vulnerability scanning, but it may not always be the best fit—especially for businesses that need to scale

Announcement

Escape Joins the AWS ISV Accelerate Program to Drive the Future of DAST in Enterprises

A couple of weeks before the RSA conference, we're thrilled to share that Escape has officially joined the AWS ISV Accelerate Program! This is a huge milestone for us, and it marks an exciting new chapter in our mission to transform how enterprises approach application discovery and dynamic

Competitor Comparison

Your Detectify Alternative: How Does Escape DAST Stack Up?

Detectify is one of the known DAST tool that helps users identify how attackers might exploit vulnerabilities in their Internet-facing applications. Detectify offers two key products: Surface Monitoring, which continuously discovers and monitors all of your Internet-facing assets, and Application Scanning, designed to identify and remediate critical vulnerabilities that could

Application Security

[Webinar] How to secure modern, cloud-native applications with Escape and Wiz

Learn from Escape and Wiz’s joint customer, Sr. AppSec Manager Seth Kirschner at DoubleVerify, on how to leverage the Escape x Wiz integration for code-to-cloud security.

Product updates

Product Update: Automate alerts to your social media

Escape has created the first ever push-to-post automation to revolutionize vulnerability management by giving you the recognition you deserve.

Product updates

We now support complex authentication in DAST scans

We all know how frustrating the authentication process can be when running DAST scans. It's one of the most common pain points our customers face, and it often becomes a roadblock that slows down testing cycles. Whether it's dealing with complex custom authentication processes or navigating

Compliance

How to maintain security compliance at a Fintech: A complete guide

If you're responsible for security at a financial services or fintech company, here is your comprehensive overview of what you need to do to be compliant.

Product updates

Our Latest Product Updates: API Lifecycle Graph and Others

In addition to our bi-directional Integration with Wiz, we have more product updates for you this month!

Application Security

Escape + Wiz: Unified Security for Modern, Cloud-Native Applications

A new technology partnership enables mutual customers to gain full cloud and application context, establish clear ownership, and accelerate the remediation of critical risks.

DAST

The Top 10 DAST Tools for DevSecOps in 2025

Discover the best DAST tools to enhance application security. Learn how to identify and fix vulnerabilities, ensuring compliance and robust protection.

Application Security

How to build a strong business case for replacing legacy DAST with a modern solution —a practical guide

Legacy DAST tools have long been a component in product security programs, but many have become outdated today. Traditional DAST tools were built for yesterday’s web, often providing only basic web scan results and struggling with modern languages like GraphQL or React JS . They tend to be slow, noisy,

Announcement

Spring 2025 Events Spotlight

Discover all of the exciting events you can find us at this March and April!

Webinar recap

Webinar recap: The security mistakes everyone makes in M&A

Discover exactly how to avoid the common security pitfalls during M&A from our panel of experts, who are drawing from decades of experience in the field.

Competitor Comparison

Bright Security vs Escape

Explore how Bright Security differs from Escape, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of both, and determine the best fit for your company.

Webinar recap

Webinar recap: How to combine SAST and DAST for complete application coverage

Modern applications come with a whole host of challenges that legacy SASTs and DASTs simply cannot keep up with. If you want to be sure no vulnerabilities slip through the cracks in these applications, the key is combining a modern SAST and DAST. Why? Last week, Escape’s CEO Tristan

Webinar

Webinar: The security mistakes everyone makes in M&A

If you often manage security across diverse brands or handle mergers and acquisitions, this webinar is not to be missed, as a panel of guest experts take you through all of the real-world security pitfalls when bringing companies together.

Competitor Comparison

Escape DAST vs Probely DAST (acquired by Snyk)

Discover the differences between these tools for Application Discovery and DAST.

Product updates

Kickstart 2025 with New DAST Scanner Features

The start of a new year brings exciting updates to our DAST scanner! Our goal is simple: to improve testing accuracy by leveraging real, concrete examples of API requests when they might be required. While we don’t need to have direct access to live traffic to start in-depth testing,

Webinar

Webinar: How to combine SAST and DAST for complete application coverage

Join experts Amit Bismut and Tristan Kalos as they give you actionable insights and practical examples on how to harness SAST and DAST together to create a robust security strategy.

DAST

What is wrong with the current state of DAST? Feedback from my conversations with AppSec engineers

And a deep dive into how the state of DAST is changing.

Product updates

Introducing Kubernetes Integration: Discover APIs in Kubernetes

Identify undocumented and potentially vulnerable APIs in your Kubernetes clusters with ease.

Product updates

Escape DAST Now in Beta: SPAs Testing Made Easy

Escape expanded into front-end web app and single-page application (SPA) security testing. Help us build a better DAST by joining the closed beta.

Application Security

Qualys DAST: Key Features and Top Alternatives

Dynamic application security testing (DAST) is a cornerstone of any robust Product Security Program, yet finding a top DAST tool that combines thoroughness with usability remains a challenge. Qualys DAST took its place as a solution for hundreds of organizations, but when we talk with AppSec engineers, questions often arise

Product updates

Introducing Private Locations: Securely Scan Your Internal Applications

While public applications often receive focused attention, the reality is that many critical applications operate behind firewalls, VPNs, or in private networks. These internal apps can be just as vulnerable to attacks—but securing them without disrupting your infrastructure can be a challenge. Today, we’re introducing Private Locations, a