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Snyk

Snyk Named a Leader in the 2025 Forrester SAST Wave: SAST Solutions, Q3 2025

Sep 9, 2025 By Ben Desjardins In Snyk
We’re excited to announce that Snyk has been recognized as a Leader in the Forrester Wave: Static Application Security Testing (SAST) Solutions, Q3 2025. This recognition affirms our place at the forefront of developer-first security — and highlights the innovation, customer impact, and platform breadth that continue to set us apart.
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mend

What Being Customer Recognized in The Forrester Wave: Static Application Security Testing Solutions, Q3 2025 Really Means

Sep 9, 2025 By Rami Sass In Mend
Our customers have been telling us for months: “You’ve made security simple.” Today, Forrester confirmed what our customers already knew. Mend.io has been recognized as a Strong Performer in The Forrester Wave: Static Application Security Testing Solutions, Q3 2025. In our first appearance in the evaluation, we earned top scores in Innovation and Triage. But the recognition that matters most? Being highlighted as a customer favorite.
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astra

What's a False Positive & How to Triage It in SAST+DAST?

Sep 5, 2025 By Sumit Singh In Astra
In 2025, DevOps teams are overwhelmed not by missing vulnerabilities but by too many false ones. SAST reports flagging “phantom bugs” that stall pipelines, while DAST scans misfire on runtime edge cases. The noise has become deafening, and developers are starting to tune out entirely. False positives are not just noise. They are a growing attack surface in themselves. They slow down real fixes and create blind spots where actual threats hide.
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What Is a DAST Scan-and Why It's Essential for Web App Security

What Is a DAST Scan-and Why It's Essential for Web App Security

Aug 20, 2025 By SecuritySenses In SecuritySenses
Modern web applications are exposed to real-world threats the moment they go live. Even the most careful development practices can't fully guarantee safety once your app is in the wild. Static analysis tools (SAST) help by catching issues in the codebase before release, but they don't provide the full picture of what attackers will see in production. That's where DAST scanning-Dynamic Application Security Testing-comes in. Instead of scanning code, a DAST tool interacts with your running application, probing it for weaknesses in much the same way a real attacker would.
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astra

Practical Guide to Integrating DAST in Your DevOps Workflow (2025)

Aug 6, 2025 By Sumit Singh In Astra
Globally, DDoS attacks surged 108% year‑over‑year, API‑targeted bot assaults jumped 39%, and nine out of ten sites faced bot attacks by the end of 2024. Application‑layer threats are evolving faster than ever, and annual or quarterly scans simply can’t keep up. Yet most teams still treat security as a checkbox, i.e., formal, slow, and disconnected from rapid releases.
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astra

The Ultimate Guide to DAST for Single Page Applications (2025)

Jul 31, 2025 By Aakanksha Khanna In Astra
The majority of web experiences are currently developed with Single Page Applications to offer a fast, seamless, and undeniably effective user experience. Frameworks such as REACT, Angular, and Vue.js have turned the browser into an application runtime rather than a passive page loader. Nevertheless, this transition is associated with a security price that most teams continue to underestimate. Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) tools were designed to work with simpler web applications.
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astra

How Continuous DAST Empowers OWASP Top 10 Compliance

Jul 30, 2025 By Sumit Singh In Astra
Your app isn’t just HTML anymore. It is containers talking to microservices, SPA front ends calling GraphQL, and third‑party SDKs everywhere. That mix creates blind spots and unpredictable OWASP Top 10 gaps. Continuous DAST looks through every layer, including mobile backends, APIs, and container workloads, simulating attacker behaviour across your entire technology stack. Hence, no more guessing which component hides the next SSRF, injection, or misconfiguration.
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astra

DAST Best Practices: A Guide for CXOs & Security Leaders

Jul 30, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
DAST often underdelivers, not because the tool is broken, but because it’s misapplied. It gets dropped into pipelines without strategy, runs against partial environments, skips authenticated areas, and generates findings that teams ignore. The result is predictable: wasted cycles and lost credibility. DAST best practices focus on addressing operational failures that render scans ineffective.
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astra

Continuous DAST in CI/CD Pipelines: A Practical Guide

Jul 30, 2025 By Sanskriti Jain In Astra
Every pipeline shift introduces a new blind spot. SAST catches coding flaws, and SCA catches dependency risks; however, as delivery moves to CI/CD, new risks have emerged, not in the code itself, but in how it is executed. From broken access controls and authentication drift to logic flaws behind feature flags, these threats show up in production. Continuous DAST in CI/CD pipelines isn’t just “another layer” but a runtime check that’s most likely to catch what gets exploited.
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mend

Best Application Security Testing Tools: Top 10 Tools in 2025

Jun 28, 2025 By Mend.io Team In Mend
What Are Application Security Testing Tools? Application security testing (AST) tools identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses in software applications. These tools assess code, application behavior, or its environment to detect potential security risks. They help developers and security teams prevent cyberattacks by addressing security issues during the development and deployment phases.
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