DAST - Escape - Application Security & Offensive Security Blog

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

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.

DAST

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

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

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

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Legacy DAST tools have long been a component in product security programs, but many have become outdated today.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.

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.

API Security

The Elephant in AppSec Talks Highlight: Reinventing API Security

Highlights from Escape's talks at The Elephant in AppSec Conference on the challenges of API security and how Escape is overcoming these

API Security

Reinventing API security: Why Escape is better than traditional DAST tools

We have been doing API Security wrong. Discover how the limitations of DAST API security tools might impact your security and why Escape's technology is the best way to protect your APIs.

DAST

We benchmarked DAST products, and this is what we learned

When we started, we wanted to understand how to validate the quality of Escape's scanner findings and be able to benchmark them. Dynamic application scanning solutions are notorious for not being able to scan complex vulnerabilities, specifically the business logic vulnerabilities, and other deficiencies, and even though we

API Security

DAST is dead, why Business Logic Security Testing takes center stage

“DAST is dead” - that’s the phrase that appears every year on social media and in cybersecurity newsletters. But what if in 2024, it finally came true? DAST, Dynamic Application Security Testing (even though we see a new terminology “Dynamic API Security Testing” popping up here and there within

Product updates

DAST Scanner: New features and improvements

We are excited to announce the updates to our DAST scanner, helping you achieve improved performance and obtain better results when testing your APIs.

API Security

Escape vs Burp Suite DAST: Which Tool Fits Modern AppSec?

Finding the right tools for your AppSec team can be a daunting task. Especially when it comes to testing modern applications like SPAs, APIs, and Microservices. Today, attackers prioritize exploiting an application's business logic flaws and truly understanding the underlying logic is challenging for most DAST tools without