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[Webinar] Doing More With Less: How Security Teams Escape Manual Work with Efficient Workflows

Security teams are under constant pressure to do more with the same resources. Manual processes, fragmented tools, and inefficient workflows can slow teams down and pull focus away from what matters most. In this live webinar, experienced security practitioners share how they’ve escaped the constraints of limited resources by

Application Security

DAST vs Penetration Testing: Key Differences in 2026

Learn about the key differences between DAST and pentesting, the emerging role of AI pentesting, their roles in security testing, and which is right for your business.

Product updates

How to Visualize Web & API Coverage with Screenshots and Validate Attack Paths in Escape

We reworked how Escape represents dynamic security testing tool coverage across web applications and APIs, with one goal: Make every executed action observable, verifiable, and explainable. We strongly believe every app is different, and just showing visited URLs is not enough. Why this matters After every security scan, you might

Application Security

How to Implement Multi-User Testing in DAST: Real-World Examples

Discover how to test for multi-user vulnerabilities. Four real-world examples of tenant isolation, consolidated testing, and privilege escalation.

Application Security

MCP Endpoint Discovery & External Scanning in Escape ASM

Escape ASM (Attack Surface Management) now natively supports the discovery and external scanning of unauthenticated MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoints, extending discovery coverage to a new generation of AI-native APIs and LLM infrastructure. As organizations increasingly adopt MCP to connect large language models (LLMs) with tools, data sources, and internal

Application Security

Apple's App Store Source Map Leak: A Preventable Vulnerability We Found in 70% of Organizations

On November 4, 2025, Apple shipped its redesigned App Store website. However, it came with a surprise: JavaScript sourcemaps enabled in production. Within hours, it enabled some to download Apple’s entire front-end codebase directly from the production site. They used a Chrome extension to extract and save all the

Application Security

Duck Store is Open for Business & Business Logic Vulnerabilities

Explore Duck Store, a modern, intentionally vulnerable web app designed for security testing.

Pentesting

Best Agentic Pentesting Tools in 2026

Explore the best Agentic pentesting 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.

Application Security

Two Major Updates from The Elephant in AppSec Conference: Agenda Is Live & Partnership with InfoSecMap

Two exciting updates in the Elephant in AppSec corner! 1. The Elephant in AppSec Conference 2026 Agenda Is Now Live The agenda for the 2026 edition of The Elephant in AppSec Conference is officially published. This year’s program brings together a lineup of speakers who aren’t afraid to

Agentic Pentesting: The Complete Guide to Get Started in 2025

Explore this complete guide to agentic pentesting and learn how agentic pentesting architecture works, the key benefits it delivers, and the tools you can integrate into your security workflow.

Pentesting

Best AI Pentesting Tools in 2026

Explore the best AI pentesting tools in 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. Updated: January 2026

Product updates

Fixing Vulnerabilities Directly in your IDE with Escape MCP

Discover a step-by-step workflow you can plug directly into your development process

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,

Security Research

Methodology: How we discovered over 2k high-impact vulnerabilities in apps built with vibe coding platforms

Hey there, With Halloween around the corner, what’s scarier for organizations than vulnerabilities in their web applications? And it's even scarier when the development of these applications is in the hands of users not familiar with security practices. This year, the Escape research team has focused on

Product updates

Introducing Multi-User Testing with Natural Language Queries in Escape DAST

Most of today’s SaaS structures are multi-tenant environments. Making sure that each tenant’s data and resources are securely isolated from others is critical. Weaknesses or misconfigurations in tenant isolation can lead to unauthorized access or data leaks between tenants, compromising the security of the entire system. If you’

Application Security

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. Automate your pentesting For teams that deploy every day Book a demo → Learn more "AI is already transforming pentesting. If

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