The situation
An API has source checks but no evidence of authenticated runtime testing.
Dynamic Application Security Testing
DAST examines a running application or API from the outside. It helps evaluate exposed behavior, authentication paths and responses that source-only analysis cannot exercise.
- Set authorization and scope
- Exercise meaningful paths
- Review and reproduce
Is this right for you?
When this is the right work.
You need to test how an application behaves when requests reach an authorized running environment.
The first conversation establishes the environment, the constraint and who will accept the result. We agree a bounded starting point before expanding the engagement.
Scope
What DotConn delivers.
- 01
Set authorization and scope
Agree targets, test accounts, permitted methods, safety limits and testing windows.
- 02
Exercise meaningful paths
Configure authenticated journeys and API coverage rather than relying only on a public homepage scan.
- 03
Review and reproduce
Triage findings, identify remediation owners and retest agreed fixes.
Deliverables
What you receive.
Acceptance criteria identify the checks, records and handover needed for the agreed scope.
- Authorized target and test plan
- Reproducible runtime findings
- Retest and coverage summary
In practice
A practical example.
Our approach
We agree a safe test environment and representative authenticated requests.
The useful result
The report identifies what was exercised and what remains outside coverage.
Responsibility
Agree the responsibility.
DotConn
Assesses and delivers the technical work in the agreed scope, with reviewable changes and handover. Continuing operation requires a separately defined managed-service scope.
Your team
Provides authorized access, business priorities and accountable decision-makers; approves policy choices and accepts the agreed result.
Set this boundary early
Testing can affect data and availability. Production endpoints are included only with explicit authorization, limits and an agreed recovery contact.
FAQ
Questions worth resolving.
Technical reading
Is a DAST scan a penetration test?
It can be one input. Penetration testing adds scoped adversarial investigation and manual analysis beyond automated runtime scanning.
Pricing, timing and how to prepare are covered in working with DotConn.
Connected work
Services that work alongside this.
Penetration Testing
Penetration testing is an authorized, time-bounded assessment of how an adversary could exploit a defined application or environment. The output should help the customer reproduce, prioritize and fix findings.
ExploreStatic Application Security Testing
SAST analyzes application source or compiled code for potential security weaknesses without exercising the running service. Its value depends on language coverage, rule quality and useful feedback to developers.
ExploreApplication & Code Security
Application security combines complementary checks of source code, dependencies, containers and running behavior. The goal is an actionable view of risk and a way to verify remediation.
ExploreContainer Image Security
Container security work reviews the software and configuration packaged in an image, alongside how that image is built and promoted into use.
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