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Security teams already have long queues of potential application vulnerabilities. The useful question is what happens next: can they see how a weakness behaves in a running application, reproduce the attack, and give developers enough evidence to fix it? Dynamic application security testing (DAST) helps answer those questions by testing applications as an attacker encounters them. The IDC…
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