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DAST & Continuous Security Testing

Authenticated dynamic scanning wired into your pipeline and triaged by analysts — so the gap between annual penetration tests stops being a blind spot.

A penetration test is a photograph. If you ship weekly, the application an auditor sees in the report is not the application running in production three months later. Dynamic application security testing closes that gap — provided it is authenticated, tuned, and triaged by someone before it reaches your developers.

How we run it

  • Authenticated scanning — sessions configured for each user role so the scanner reaches the application behind the login, which is where the functionality lives
  • API-aware coverage — scans driven from your OpenAPI specification, GraphQL schema or Postman collection rather than crawled blindly
  • Pipeline integration — scans triggered on deployment to staging from GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins or Azure DevOps, with configurable build gates on new high-severity findings
  • Human triage — every result reviewed by an analyst before it is raised. False positives are suppressed at the rule level, not re-litigated each run
  • Workflow delivery — confirmed findings pushed into Jira, Linear or GitHub Issues with reproduction steps and severity, and alerts to Slack or Teams
  • Trend reporting — monthly reporting on new versus resolved findings, mean time to remediate, and recurring classes worth a code-level fix

Where DAST fits — and where it does not

Dynamic scanning is very good at catching regressions, misconfigurations, exposed interfaces and known vulnerable components across a large surface, continuously and cheaply. It cannot reason about your business logic, chain several small flaws into one serious one, or tell you that a support agent can read every customer's records. That work is manual, and no scanner replaces it.

It also does not, on its own, satisfy a penetration testing requirement. PCI DSS treats vulnerability scanning (Requirement 11.3) and penetration testing (Requirement 11.4) as separate obligations, and an assessor will expect evidence of both. The practical model is continuous DAST through the year, with a manual penetration test at your compliance interval.

Who it is for

Product teams deploying weekly or faster, platforms with a large or fast-growing application estate, and security teams who need coverage between annual tests without hiring for it. It pairs naturally with SAST in pull requests — static analysis before the code merges, dynamic testing after it deploys.

Frequently asked

Can you scan production safely?
Yes, with a non-destructive profile, agreed rate limits and a scheduled window. Most clients scan staging on every deploy and production on a lower-frequency, more conservative profile.
Does this replace our annual penetration test?
No, and we would not sell it that way. Scanning and penetration testing are distinct obligations under PCI DSS and distinct in what they find. Continuous DAST plus one manual test a year is the model we recommend.
How much noise will our developers see?
Only what an analyst has confirmed. Unverified scanner output is never pushed into your backlog, and suppressed false positives stay suppressed across future runs.

Book a scoping call with the testing team

Tell us what you are shipping — applications, APIs, mobile builds, compliance deadline — and we will come back with scope, timeline and a fixed quote.