Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) DAST is also a very crucial application security testing procedure. It works in a way that can investigate applications while they are running to detect security vulnerabilities. It is a fact that the vulnerabilities and threats are growing at a rapid scale and this is the only reason why businesses consider deploying DAST. Why is it necessary? Now, though web applications suffer attacks as a major threat, these aren’t as deadly as ransomware. The most common way that web applications have security issues is via SQL injection. The next common way hackers use to take advantage of the vulnerabilities is cross-site scripting. The hackers inject their codes in the web applications through which they steal confidential data, cookies, and credentials. There are two different types of DAST testing. They are: 🕳 Automated DAST DAST scanners are mostly activated by crawlers. Such crawlers use bots to scan through websites automatically and logs eve