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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Best SAST Solutions: How to Choose Between the Top 11 Tools in 2025 Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is a proactive approach to identifying security vulnerabilities in source code during development. This article delves into the core features of SAST tools, reviews leading solutions, and provides guidance on selecting the right tool to enhance your software’s security posture.

Daniel Pouzzner from wolfSSL has challenged us to find 3 more vulnerabilities in the wolfSSL library, after we found the first one in October 2024. We weren't quite able to find three, but here are the additional two that we found: Both vulnerabilities were fixed in wolfSSL version 5.8.0, released on 24 April 2025. The fuzz tests that found these vulnerabilities were generated by our AI Test Agent.

If you recognize the benefits that fuzz testing can bring to your software security but are new to it, read on. In this blog post, you’ll learn what you need to consider before implementing fuzz testing in your company to ensure a smooth and successful adoption. So, you’ve chosen the light side and decided to find and fix bugs in your code before they become a problem. Well done, and congrats!