dast
Safeguard articles tagged "dast" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
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ZAP Scanner: How OWASP ZAP Works and When to Use It
ZAP is the most widely used free DAST scanner. Here is how its spider, passive, and active engines work, where it fits in CI, and its honest limits.
The ZAP Security Testing Tool: A Practical Guide
How the ZAP security testing tool works as a free DAST scanner: passive and active scanning, the spider and AJAX spider, and how to run it in CI without noise.
Web Application Scanning: Tools and Methods Compared
Web application scanning ranges from free automated crawlers to full authenticated DAST pipelines — here's how the methods differ and when each is enough.
Dynamic Scanning, Explained for Engineers Who Aren't Security Specialists
Dynamic scanning tests a running application the way an attacker would, by sending it requests and watching what comes back. Here's what that actually involves and when it's the right tool.
AI-driven DAST for modern applications
73% of open-source developers now use AI coding tools. Dynamic testing built for nightly crawls can't keep pace with apps that reshape their attack surface daily.
Static vs Dynamic Code Analysis: An Honest 2026 Comparison
SAST vs DAST vs IAST in 2026 — what each finds, what each misses, the real tools, how reachability bridges them, and where Safeguard fits — explained without hype.
Why AI-generated code needs DAST, not just SAST
Copilot-generated code carried vulnerabilities in ~40% of cases in a 2021 NYU study. Static scanning alone cannot catch the runtime-only bug classes LLMs introduce.
The four-phase roadmap for adopting DevSecOps
Google Cloud's 2024 DORA report found AI-tool adoption correlated with worse delivery performance for the second year running — tool sprawl without a plan makes DevSecOps worse, not better.
A reference architecture for SAST, SCA, and DAST gates that don't block developers
Log4Shell sat exploitable for 8 days before public disclosure in December 2021 — the canonical case for why security gates belong in CI, not just at release.
Introducing First-Party SAST and DAST: One Findings Model Across Code and Runtime
Safeguard is extending the platform with first-party static (SAST) and dynamic (DAST) application security testing — sharing one unified findings model with SCA, secrets, container, and IaC, with defensive-only DAST that only ever touches targets you've proven you own.
Best DAST Tools in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
A balanced 2026 comparison of the leading dynamic application security testing tools — OWASP ZAP, Burp Suite, Invicti, Rapid7 InsightAppSec, StackHawk, and Bright — with an honest look at where Safeguard fits.
Veracode Alternatives in 2026: An Honest Buyer's Guide
A balanced comparison of the top Veracode alternatives in 2026 — Checkmarx, Snyk, OpenText Fortify, Semgrep, GitHub Advanced Security, and Safeguard — with candid pros, cons, and a way to choose.
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