Posts tagged DAST

2 min DAST

New Research: Optimizing DAST Vulnerability Triage with Deep Learning

In new paper, Rapid7 data scientists outline a novel deep learning model to automatically prioritize application security vulnerabilities and reduce false positive friction.

3 min Application Security

Securing Your Applications Against Spring4Shell (CVE-2022-22965)

In this blog, we wanted to share some recent product enhancements across our application security portfolio to help our customers with easy ways to test and secure their apps against Spring4Shell.

2 min InsightAppSec

InsightAppSec Release Roundup: What’s New and Updated

In this blog, we recap the latest and greatest ways to work smarter and more efficiently in InsightAppSec, so you can get some much-deserved time back.

13 min DAST

Unlocking the Power of Macro Authentication in Application Security: Part Two

In this post, we will review how to understand these error messages and what steps to take to get our authentication macro working.

5 min Podcast

Great Barrier Grief: How to Break Through Bottlenecks with Automated AppSec

In our brand-new podcast, Security Nation, Zate Berg of Indeed.com explains how he avoided making his team an engineering bottleneck through automated appsec.

5 min Application Security

How to Choose the Right Application Security Tool for Your Organization

In this post, we’re taking a look at the various application security testing technologies and how to determine which is best for your organization.

3 min Application Security

In Our Customers’ Words: Why Mastering Application Security Basics Matters

In a recent conversation with a Rapid7 application security customer, I was reminded how much of a security practitioner’s day can be consumed by troubleshooting buggy tools and manually executing the same tasks over and over again (needlessly, may I add). As much as we’d like to think that security professionals’ time is being efficiently utilized, oftentimes inadequate tools, a lack of automation, and organizational silos impede SecOps-driven [https://www.rapid7.com/solutions/secops/] progress

4 min Application Security

Diving Deep and Finding Vulnerabilities in Modern Web Applications

As more and more companies shift the responsibility of security earlier [https://information.rapid7.com/shifting-left-sdlc.html] in the software development lifecycle (SDLC), DevOps teams are being tasked with detecting vulnerabilities within their applications. Already scrambling to keep up with the terminology, processes, and technologies of modern-day security, DevOps teams also have to contend with the dynamic complexities of securing web apps [https://www.rapid7.com/fundamentals/web-applica

2 min DAST

Modern Applications Require Modern Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) Solutions

Is your Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) solution leaving you exposed? We all know the story of the Emperor's New Clothes. A dapper Emperor is convinced by a tailor that he has the most incredible set of clothes that are only visible to the wise. The emperor purchases them, but cannot see them because it is just a ruse. There are no clothes. Unwilling to admit that he doesn't see the clothes, he wanders out in public in front of all of his subjects, proclaiming the clothes' beauty unt