Automating Security Workflows with DAST Essentials

In today's digital landscape, developers face mounting pressure to deliver secure applications within tight deadlines. But with faster release cycles, it becomes challenging to prioritize security. Security testing needs to work and scale within your DevOps speed and release frequency.

Web applications are highly targeted assets, accounting for 40% of breaches within organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report. According to Veracode's State of Software Security Report, 80% of web applications have critical vulnerabilities that can only be identified through dynamic testing.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is a type of black-box security testing method that simulates real-world attacks by interacting with the application from the outside during runtime. Unlike static analysis, which analyzes the source code, DAST identifies vulnerabilities without needing access to the code. Instead, it interacts with the running application to identify exploitable security vulnerabilities.

Integrate Dynamic Testing into Automated Pipelines

Veracode's APIs help you automate security workflows, letting developers programmatically interact with Veracode’s scanning tools. By integrating API calls directly into your build system, you can automate security testing workflows like submitting scans, retrieving results, and managing the entire security process from start to finish.

The DAST Essentials Public API allows you to integrate dynamic scanning into automated CI/CD pipelines (see a full list of integrations here). This automation reduces manual effort helping developers quickly set up, prioritize security, and conduct more frequent, consistent security checks--helping developers deliver more secure software in step with fast paced release cycles.

How it Works

The DAST Essentials Public API provides endpoints for managing multiple scan targets simultaneously. You can directly integrate these API calls into your build system to create and configure targets, schedule and run scans, and generate results. With quick setup and seamless integration into automated CI/CD pipelines, this API reduces manual tasks, enabling security to scale alongside your DevOps processes release frequency.

Here's what you can do with the API:

• Create targets
• Configure targets
• Schedule and run analyses on these targets
• Retrieve the latest analysis run results of a target

Learn how to get started with the DAST Essentials Public API here.

Build Fast. Build Secure.

Veracode helps you build and scale secure software from code to cloud, all on a single platform. With over a decade of experience and ongoing innovations, Veracode Dynamic Analysis maintains a false positive rate below 5%, allowing you to focus on what really matters.

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