Alexandra Charikova

Podcast

Security training: Necessary investment or overrated expense?⎥Mel Reyes (Global CEO, CIO, CISO, & CTO with 30 years of experience)

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today, we’re excited to have an amazing guest, Mel Reyes, join us. Mel has navigated through two IPOs and three M&As, worked with several startups, Pepsi and

Product updates

Now you can easily gain comprehensive insights into your compliance posture

With our new Compliance Matrix feature, it takes just a few simple steps to get full visibility into your organization's compliance posture across all applications.

Podcast

What is ASPM: A breakdown of the current state and its future⎥James Berthoty (Security at PagerDuty)

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today, we're excited to have an amazing guest, James Berthoty, joining us. James has been in technology for over 10 years across engineering and security. An early advocate

Podcast

SCADA systems: How secure are the systems running our infrastructure?⎥Malav Vyas (Security Researcher at Palo Alto Networks)

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today, we're excited to have an amazing guest, Malav Vyas, joining us. Malav is a security researcher at Palo Alto Networks, passionate about exploiting and securing systems. Security

API Security

Top 6 API security testing tools in 2025: a full review

When it comes to securing applications and APIs, the best API security testing tools are indispensable. These advanced solutions detect vulnerabilities by continuously scanning for weaknesses and simulating real-world attacks. But how do you choose between all API security testing vendors? Agentless API security tools are transforming application security by

Application Security

Threat modeling: the future of cybersecurity or another buzzword⎥Derek Fisher (author of The Application Security Handbook)

Welcome to the Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room. Today we’re excited to have an amazing guest, Derek Fisher, joining us.  Derek is a cybersecurity leader, a speaker on various cybersecurity topics, and author of the famous “The

Product updates

What’s new - Escape Product Updates

Discover our latest product updates: support for Insomnia collections, WP-JSON schema, and additional business logic security tests. Plus you can now fully benefit from Escape's public API.

Podcast

Security experience: top-down vs bottom-up⎥Jeevan Singh (Rippling, Twilio) ⎥The Elephant in AppSec Podcast

Welcome to the second episode of The Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room.

Product Security Roadmap

Webinar Recap: Building your Product Security Roadmap

In-depth recap of our hands-on product security webinar with James Berthoty—gather the best knowledge and insights!

Application Security

What is business logic, and why it's important for application security

Is understanding business logic a critical component of application security? Absolutely. In the world of cybersecurity, business logic is more than just a set of operational directives. It serves as the crucial bridge between an application's technical function and its alignment with strategic business goals. More than that,

The Elephant in AppSec Podcast⎥Lack of effective DAST tools⎥Aleksandr Krasnov (Meta, Thinkific, Dropbox)

Welcome to the first episode of The Elephant in AppSec, the podcast to explore, challenge, and boldly face the AppSec Elephants in the room.

Webinar: Best Practices for Security Compliance

How can you turn compliance from a box-ticking exercise into a strategic advantage for your organization? Join our upcoming webinar with DevSecOps expert, Wilson Mar, and get insights you need to optimize your approach to security compliance. 😔Unfortunately, this webinar has been canceled until further notice. One of our hosts

Application Security

Vulnerability Management Lifecycle: 5 Steps and Best Practices

Maintaining robust security of your organization is not just crucial in 2023 – it's a survival strategy. The recent data breach at 23andMe in October 2023 is a case in point. This incident, where a credential-stuffing attack led to unauthorized access to customer accounts, underscores a harsh reality. Even

API Security

Introducing your new API security testing assistant: Meet our GPT Bot!

Hey there 👋 We've got some exciting news to share with you today! We're thrilled to introduce you to our brand-new API security testing assistant: the GPT Bot "API Guardian". Are you tired of spending endless hours proactively looking for the best practices to test

Events

Webinar: Building Your Product Security Roadmap

Whether you're in the first few weeks of your ProdSec journey or building your Product security program for 2024, you might feel lost trying to wrap your head around all the attack surface your org faces and identifying some of the biggest security gaps. Don't worry,

Case Study

Case Study: How Lightspeed ensures full security compliance with Escape

Lightspeed, a technology partner to more than 160,000 global retail and hospitality businesses, has recently transitioned to a centralized payments model and adopted GraphQL APIs as a cornerstone of its operations. GraphQL allowed Lightspeed to improve both efficiency and flexibility in data retrieval, resulting in better overall system performance.

Competitor Comparison

Escape vs StackHawk: A Complete DAST Comparison

Update: January 2025. Explore how StackHawk differs from Escape, weigh the advantages and disadvantages of both, and determine the best fit for your company.

Announcement

Escape is now SOC 2 Type II compliant

We worked hard to complete the process and get the SOC 2 Type II compliance and finally it's done!

Announcement

October Spotlight: The major events not to be missed

If you’re not yet convinced that the fall is the best season to attend cybersecurity conferences, our upcoming event lineup might change your mind! This month, we're taking our team global, from the US to Monaco, Canada to Sweden. Are you planning to soak up the sun

Announcement

Escape – The API discovery & security testing platform is now available on AWS Marketplace

With Escape now available on AWS Marketplace, we’re making it easier for all AWS-affiliated organizations to automate the discovery and security testing of all their exposed APIs.

Case Study

Case Study: How Escape enhanced Shine's application security

Shine is the online banking subsidiary of Société Générale, one of the leading financial services groups in Europe. Specifically designed for professionals with a commitment to innovation and customer satisfaction, Shine offers a range of online banking solutions tailored to the modern user. At the heart of Shine's

Case Study

Case Study: How Thinkific has achieved enterprise-grade GraphQL security with Escape

Thinkific, a leading platform for creating and selling online courses, stands out for its commitment to flexibility and innovation. This dedication to innovative technologies led them to embrace GraphQL APIs as the center of their federated architecture. This system would aim to consolidate multiple existing APIs under one branch. However,

Announcement

Escape and Xolvio officially partner to help teams secure their GraphQL APIs!

Keeping APIs secure is vital. However, not all organizations have the in-house resources to tackle it effectively. Xolvio's clients can now leverage Escape's expertise in GraphQL security and performance assessments. They can also integrate it into their CI/CD pipelines, enhancing their API security

API Security

OWASP API Security TOP 10 2023: API security checklist

Discover the latest insights into the 2023 OWASP API Security Top 10, as we delve into the most critical vulnerabilities and best practices to protect your APIs.

Enterprise

What’s new for enterprise - Escape Product Updates

Our enterprise clients, we've got great news for you! During the last months, we worked hard on releasing new product updates to help you improve the efficiency of your business. From Single Sign-On (SSO) to Audit Logs, system status page, and RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), our goal is