Invicti’s 10 Best DAST Tools

Our partner in Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Invicti, posted a helpful list of the 10 top DAST tools. Naturally, they’ve put themselves at the top, which is a move we sign off on. After all, we’ve chosen to partner with them specifically because of their 10+ years of enterprise AppSec testing experience and consistent fantastic results.

But they also highlighted a number of their competitors who deliver good results in their own right. Plus, they took the opportunity to talk about their AppSec philosophy, which we’ve weighed in on here.

Why is DAST-first the preferred approach? 

Unless your team is dozens strong, you can’t be investigating every potential vulnerability—you have to prioritize on the most likely to penetrate your attack surface. Static Application Security Testing (SAST) generates tons of false positives, which you might guess is antithetical to what we do here at True Positives. This poor signal-to-noise ratio takes time to validate, before you can even start to remediate.

A DAST-first strategy highlights what the attackers see, and uses proof-based scanning to automatically confirm the most likely points of attack. Efficiency’s the name of the game.

For our part, our team agrees fully with DAST-first, followed by expert-led manual penetration testing to find the other vulnerabilities that automated scanners sometimes miss. For example: flaws in business logic.

How Invicti made its top DAST tools picks

To earn a spot on Invicti’s list, a DAST provider had to meet at least most of these criteria:

• A high rate of accuracy in its findings
• Reducing manual testing through automation
• Integrations with common developer tools, like GitHub and JIRA
• Support for modern web technologies, like JavaScript apps and Single Page Applications (SPAs)
• Ability to include Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST) to find flaws in web apps and APIs as they run

Make sure to check out their article to explore all your DAST options. 

About True Positives

We’re a modern managed security service provider (MSSP), with over 100 years of combined DevSecOps experience on our small team and specialize exclusively on AppSec. We put powerful automated DAST from Invicti into the hands of organizations looking to outsource, and license it on-premise while providing expert support for those managing it in-house. Get in touch to learn more.