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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.

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 teams

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 2026

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

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 Snyk DAST (Probely): Complete Comparison 2025

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,

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

Looking to learn more about Qualys DAST? Discover its key features and alternatives.

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