Alexandra Charikova

Alexandra leads Growth & Community at Escape and hosts The Elephant in AppSec podcast, focusing on application security. She’s active in BSides Amsterdam, OWASP AppSec Days, and contributes security research featured in outlets like Help Net Security

Alexandra Charikova — Last Publications

From Complex Authentication to Confident Coverage: How Applied Systems Transformed Their AppSec with Escape
Case Study

From Complex Authentication to Confident Coverage: How Applied Systems Transformed Their AppSec with Escape

In a recent webinar on "From Business Logic Vulnerabilities to Actionable Insights: AI-powered Pentesting + ASM in Action," Andrew Orr Erwing, Manager of Security Engineering (AppSec) at Applied Systems, shared his team's journey in modernizing their application security approach. For organizations that have grown rapidly through acquisitions,

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

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

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Alexandra Charikova — Events, Talks & Papers