Continuous DAST
Your application gets attacked every day. Testing it once a year is a strange way to respond to that.
The Problem
An annual pentest leaves you blind for eleven months
Your application is not the same thing it was last quarter. You shipped features, added endpoints, upgraded dependencies, and stood up an environment for a customer demo. Every one of those changes is a chance to introduce a weakness, and none of them wait for your next scheduled assessment.
The alternative most companies are offered is an enterprise platform priced for a security team you do not have, which produces a dashboard nobody logs into and a queue of unverified findings nobody triages. Continuous DAST is the middle path: automated testing that runs every week, with a human reading the output before it reaches you.
How It Works
Four passes over your application
Each pass feeds the next. Discovery finds the hosts, the crawler maps what they expose, the scanner tests everything it found, and the fuzzer attacks the inputs.
Discover
Enumerates the subdomains and hosts inside your authorized scope, including the staging box nobody remembered and the microsite marketing stood up last quarter.
Crawl
Maps what your application actually exposes: routes, query parameters, forms, and the API endpoints your JavaScript calls at runtime.
Test signed in
Runs the whole assessment behind your login. Most real weaknesses live on account and admin pages that an unauthenticated scanner never reaches.
Fuzz
Sends adversarial input to every discovered parameter and API endpoint, testing for injection, cross-site scripting, traversal, and server-side request forgery.
Where It Fits
Against the alternatives
We are comparing approaches rather than named vendors, because the right answer genuinely depends on your situation. If you have a security team and an enterprise budget, a platform may serve you better.
| Annual pentest | Enterprise DAST platform | Continuous DAST | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage of your app | Deep, but a point in time | Broad and automated | Broad and automated, signed in |
| How often it runs | Once or twice a year | Continuous | Continuous, on your schedule |
| What you receive | A large PDF, months apart | A dashboard to check | An alert only when something new appears |
| Findings triaged by a human | Yes | Rarely | Yes, before it reaches you |
| Written scope authorization | Per engagement | Your responsibility | Enforced by the scanner itself |
| Who it is built for | Anyone who can afford it | Enterprise security teams | Companies without a security team |
Coverage
Mapped to the OWASP Top 10
Every finding carries its OWASP category and CWE identifier, so the report lines up with whatever framework your auditor is working from.
What You Get
Signal, not a dashboard
Alerts on change, not noise
You hear from us when a new weakness appears or an existing one gets worse. A finding you already know about does not generate another email, and a fix never pages anyone.
A report you can hand to an auditor
Every finding is mapped to the OWASP Top 10 and a CWE, with the evidence, the affected locations, and the remediation. Scored on the same scale as the rest of our assessments.
Proof that it is getting better
Each scan is compared with the last, so you can show that a weakness was found on the 3rd, fixed by the 11th, and has not come back since.
We only ever test what you signed for
Sending attack traffic to a system you have not authorized is not a grey area, it is unauthorized access. So every scan is gated on a signed engagement record listing the exact hostnames in scope and the date the authorization expires. There is no override.
This matters most during discovery, when the tool is finding hosts rather than being given them. Anything discovered outside your written scope is listed in your report as inventory worth knowing about, and never receives a single packet.
FAQ
Common Questions
Find out what a real scan turns up
A scoping call takes twenty minutes. We agree what is in scope, you sign the authorization, and the first scan runs that week.
Book a scoping call