Alexandra Charikova - Escape DAST - Application Security Blog

Why context is king in Attack Surface Management (ASM): Key insights from my conversations with security leaders

When I launched this research, my goal was to understand the current perception of security practitioners regarding Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions. Unlike in my previous article, "What is wrong with the current state of DAST?" I didn't start with an overall negative perception from the

Product updates

Introducing AI-Powered Exploit Validation and Remediation Guidelines

Security teams know that finding a vulnerability is only half the battle. The harder part is validating that it can be exploited and applying the right fix with confidence. Too often, remediation guidance is static, generic, or incomplete, leaving engineers guessing. This also strains the relationships between security and developers.

Application Security

[Webinar] From Business Logic Vulnerabilities to Actionable Insights: AI-powered Pentesting + ASM in Action

For years, security teams have relied on human penetration testers to uncover critical vulnerabilities hidden in complex business logic. These flaws are subtle, context-dependent, and unique to every system’s workflow. Even modern scanners struggle to capture them, focusing only on a limited range of vulnerabilities displayed in their UI.

Product updates

August Product Updates: Enhancements to the Escape Public API and CLI, and the Introduction of Global Configuration Management

August is usually synonymous with vacations, beach days, and relaxation. But here at Escape, we’re not taking a break from empowering security teams (just kidding, we still took a break, but we shipped more efficiently!). While many are winding down, we’re cranking up the pace with some exciting

Podcast

Security Culture: When Are We Really Creating Change? with Marisa Fagan

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Marisa Fagan.

Application Security

How to Automate Your Penetration Testing?

AI is revolutionizing penetration testing, transforming traditionally manual exploits, once spanning several days, into automated systems that can now handle reconnaissance, scanning, and fuzzing in a matter of hours. "AI is already transforming pentesting. If you look at automated reconnaissance and scanning, finding those low-hanging fruits, or threat intelligence

Podcast

The Future of Pentesting: Can AI Replace Human Expertise? ⎥ Jyoti Raval

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Jyoti Raval

Podcast

Security Wins Only When Institutionalized – Here’s Why! ⎥ Kevan Bard

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Kevan Bard.

Podcast

Why Your Security Program Might Be Failing Before It Even Starts ⎥ Sean Finley ⎥The Elephant in AppSec Podcast

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Sean Finley.

Announcement

Escape Honored with Inaugural Wiz Integrations (WIN) Partner Award

Escape has been recognized by Wiz as a winner in the inaugural WIN awards, earning the WINvaluable Award for its outstanding partnership! This recognition highlights Escape's track record of delivering real outcomes for joint customers through the WIN program. 💡Launched in 2023, WIN is Wiz’s open, bidirectional

Product updates

More Support for Complex Authentication Flows: TOTP MFA and Text-Based CAPTCHA

This June, we’re making it easier to test real-world applications with complex authentication flows without sacrificing automation. Security teams need to test applications exactly as they exist in production, including MFA and CAPTCHA-protected flows. Historically, these protections aren’t "scanner-friendly" and often introduce friction into DAST workflows.

Application Security

[Webinar] Securing AI-driven applications with DAST

Join us for a live webinar with application security experts and Escape clients - Seth Kirschner (DoubleVerify), Nathan Byrd (Applied Systems), Nick Semyonov (PandaDoc), as they break down how their teams are rethinking testing strategies to keep up with AI-influenced codebases.

Product updates

Meet Escape Copilot: Automate App and Scan Management via MCP

Meet Escape Copilot. Powered by the MCP over the Escape Public API, it helps you boost productivity and get more done with less context switching inside Escape.

Product updates

From Alert to Action: Escape’s Jira Integration Explained

Ticketing systems are an essential part of modern DevSecOps. They orchestrate cross-functional collaboration, ensure accountability, and drive issues to resolution. But in application security, the value of ticketing hinges on one critical factor: context. Too often, security tools generate vague alerts or findings without right context associated with them that

Case Study

How Escape Enabled Deeper Business Logic Testing for Arkose Labs

Arkose Labs is a global cybersecurity company that specializes in account security, including bot management, device ID, anti-phishing and email intelligence. Its unified platform helps the world’s biggest enterprises across industries, including banking, gaming, e-commerce and social media, protect user accounts and digital ecosystems from malicious automation, credential stuffing

Case Study

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 DAST: Escape DAST

Explore how Escape DAST serves as a superior alternative to Acunetix, offering advanced vulnerability detection for web applications and APIs, seamless integration into modern development workflows, and scalable solutions for enterprises.

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

Escape vs Detectify: The Best Detectify Alternative for Modern AppSec

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

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

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.

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,

Competitor Comparison

Escape vs Bright Security: Full DAST Comparison 2025

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