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Prevent costly breaches and malicious attacks with dynamic analysis. Our AI-powered DAST scans live applications and APIs for vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle—before they reach production.

By incorporating automated DAST at any stage of the development cycle, you can address the most complex applications, assess risks and help manage and resolve vulnerabilities with more precision, and in less time.


DAST for Developers

DAST for Developers

DAST for Developers


DAST offers pre-configured workflows, test optimization, targeted scans on specific endpoints, and incremental scanning—ideal for developers integrating security into IDEs, CI/CD pipelines, and DTS tools. With plugins for Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub and more, developers can validate fixes, correlate findings, and confidently promote secure code to the main branch.

HCL AppScan DAST provides developers with the ability to look at specific activity traffic as well as ratify and correlate security findings. Its Unit-level DAST Intelligence Tester (AUDIT) supports targeted scans on specific endpoints, so that developers can perform early vulnerability detection and run lightweight scans directly within the IDE during development.

Web API Scanning

Web API Scanning

Web API Scanning


Expand your vulnerability coverage with automated scanning of all web APIs—using Postman collection files, OpenAPI descriptions, recorded traffic, or through HCL AppScan's seamless integration with leading API testing tools.

IFA for DAST

Incremental Scanning and Test Optimization

IFA for DAST


Leverage AI for improved DAST scan speed and accuracy with Intelligent Findings Analytics (IFA). IFA incorporates GenAI to detect and validate error pages more effectively, reducing false positives and uncovering hidden vulnerabilities.

The IFA Test Optimization feature allows users to adjust scan speed and depth based on development needs with four optimization levels. Choose to go 10x faster with 70% accuracy, or only 2x faster with 97% accuracy. Your choice!

Incremental and Action-based Scanning

Action-based Scanning and Login Management

Incremental and Action-based Scanning


Incremental scanning saves time by limiting testing to only new portions of the source code, or portions with issues found in earlier scans.

Action-based scanning uses an embedded browser to explore/crawl the application as a user would – providing a user-view of the application, rather than a traditional traffic view.

Vulnerable Third-Party Component Detection

Vulnerable Third-Party Component Detection

Vulnerable Third-Party Component Detection


Hackers target well-known vulnerabilities in popular libraries that you may have incorporated into your application. DAST together with vulnerable third-party component detection provide you with much more comprehensive vulnerability coverage, allowing you to identify (fingerprint) third-party libraries with known vulnerabilities and see those findings alongside all your DAST results.

OWASP Top 10 & OWASP API Security Top 10

OWASP Top 10 & OWASP API Security Top 10

OWASP Top 10 & OWASP API Security Top 10


The OWASP Foundation spearheads community-led, open-source projects to study and provide guidance in application security. HCL AppScan DAST technology contributes to our ability to offer 100% coverage for the most common vulnerabilities and security risks on both important benchmarks.

User Defined Tests

Create your own custom user rules to identify application specific issues or errors. You can examine traffic for unwanted content or behavior, create payloads and search for reflected behavior that indicates a problem, and even validate with external servers for known blind attacks.

Multi-Step Operations

Recorded multi-step and action-based multi-step operations enable testing of complex logical sequences in the application. Whenever a complex series of work needs to be accomplished before testing a particular page in a particular state, the sequence can be replayed to be in the correct state.

Privilege Escalation

Test application role-based access and permissions using HCL AppScan’s Privilege Escalation component. Using scans from two or more different roles, HCL AppScan generates a report of all access control errors from lower permission users to restricted locations of the application.

Third-Party and Infrastructure Tests

Your code relies on third-party libraries and components. Test those with the 1000s of available CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) tests, as well as with infrastructure tests that check your server configuration, SSL/TLS channels, and more.

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