Escape DAST - Application Security Blog (Page 2)

How to Efficiently Implement DAST in CI/CD (2025 Guide)

Working with multiple customers implementing DAST in CI/CD has allowed us to learn a lot about what works, what doesn’t, and most importantly how to do it efficiently. The truth is, it’s not about adopting just any tool. It's about making testing for runtime vulnerabilities

GraphQL

The Paradox of Disabling GraphQL Introspection: Lessons from the Parse Server GraphQL API vulnerability

Last week, the security community was alerted to a vulnerability in Parse Server GraphQL API, which allowed public access to the GraphQL schema without requiring a session token or the master key. It is now identified as CVE-2025-53364. So, the question comes up: Should we disable introspection entirely in production

Application Security

Feedback From Escape Customers: Securing AI-Driven Applications with DAST

“You ask the developer why they wrote the code the way that they did, and they don’t have an answer anymore. They’re like, ‘Well, AI wrote it.” - Seth Kirschner, DoubleVerify AI is now deeply embedded in software development workflows, and the implications for application security teams are

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

How we built Escape DAST's proprietary web application crawling algorithm and what makes it innovative

In this article, we'll show how we created our web application crawling algorithm to ensure complete testing coverage for modern applications.

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.

Compliance

Why DAST Is Critical for Cyber Resilience Act Compliance

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act is reshaping how companies build and secure digital products. Learn why modern DAST is critical for CRA compliance from secure development to incident response and how to prepare before the 2027 deadline.

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.

DAST

Top 10 DAST Tools for DevSecOps in 2026: APIs, CI/CD & Business Logic

Discover the top 10 DAST tools for 2026, built for SPAs, APIs (REST, GraphQL...), business logic vulnerabilities, and CI/CD pipelines. Compare strengths, weaknesses, and key features that matter to AppSec and DevSecOps teams.

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

Product Update: Automate alerts to your social media

Escape has created the first ever push-to-post automation to revolutionize vulnerability management by giving you the recognition you deserve.

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

Compliance

How to maintain security compliance at a Fintech: A complete guide

If you're responsible for security at a financial services or fintech company, here is your comprehensive overview of what you need to do to be compliant.

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,

Announcement

Spring 2025 Events Spotlight

Discover all of the exciting events you can find us at this March and April!

Webinar recap

Webinar recap: The security mistakes everyone makes in M&A

Discover exactly how to avoid the common security pitfalls during M&A from our panel of experts, who are drawing from decades of experience in the field.

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.