Alexandra Charikova — Last Publications
![[Webinar] From Business Logic Vulnerabilities to Actionable Insights: AI-powered Pentesting + ASM in Action](/blog/content/images/size/w600/format/webp/2025/09/business-logic-attack-surface-management-webinar.png)
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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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
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Pentesting
Top Automated Penetration Testing Tools (2026)
Explore the best automated penetration testing tools of 2026. Learn how modern pentesting solutions detect business logic flaws and scale continuous security testing, so security teams can replace manual pentests with faster, more accurate coverage.
29 min read
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.
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"AI is already transforming pentesting. If
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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
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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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![[Webinar] Securing AI-driven applications with DAST](/blog/content/images/size/w600/format/webp/2025/06/secure-ai-driven-apps-dast.png)
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.
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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
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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
4 min read
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.
8 min read
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
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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
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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,
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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.
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Alexandra Charikova — Events, Talks & Papers
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