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Gin & Juice Shop Benchmark: How DAST Tools Really Stack Up

This month, we set out to compare our DAST against some of the established names in Dynamic Application Security Testing. We’ve already benchmarked our scanner on vulnerable apps like VAMPI and DVGA, and now we’re putting it up against Qualys, ZAP, and Intruder (available in free trial) on

Attack Surface Management

Why context is king in Attack Surface Management (ASM): Key insights from my conversations with security leaders

When I launched this research, my goal was to understand the current perception of security practitioners regarding Attack Surface Management (ASM) solutions. Unlike in my previous article, "What is wrong with the current state of DAST?" I didn't start with an overall negative perception from the

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.

Podcast

Security Culture: When Are We Really Creating Change? with Marisa Fagan

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Marisa Fagan.

Application Security

Top Vulnerability Scanning tools 2025

In 2025, vulnerability scanning tools are essential for modern security teams, but running a scan is rarely the hard part anymore. The real challenge is automating it at scale: across thousands of assets, spanning APIs, web applications, and cloud services, in environments that can change by the hour. Security engineers

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. "AI is already transforming pentesting. If you look at automated reconnaissance and scanning, finding those low-hanging fruits, or threat intelligence

Podcast

The Future of Pentesting: Can AI Replace Human Expertise? ⎥ Jyoti Raval

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Jyoti Raval

Podcast

Security Wins Only When Institutionalized – Here’s Why! ⎥ Kevan Bard

Discover insights from The Elephant in AppSec episode with Kevan Bard.

Podcast

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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,

Webinar

Webinar: How to combine SAST and DAST for complete application coverage

Join experts Amit Bismut and Tristan Kalos as they give you actionable insights and practical examples on how to harness SAST and DAST together to create a robust security strategy.

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.