Dynamic Application & API Security Testing (DAST)
One orchestrated dynamic scan across ZAP, Nuclei, the OWASP API Top 10, and TLS — with a single graded report.
What does Offload Security's DAST (dynamic application and API security testing) cover?
A dedicated dynamic-testing suite that runs proven web, API, and network scanners against your live application through one orchestrator — authenticated where it matters — then consolidates every result into a single, deduplicated, graded report.
What this replaces
Static analysis and dependency scans never exercise the running application. The issues that actually get exploited — broken authentication, injection, exposed endpoints, weak TLS — only surface when you test the live app and its APIs, and stitching a dozen DAST tools together by hand is nobody's job.
What Offload does
A dedicated dynamic-testing suite that runs proven web, API, and network scanners against your live application through one orchestrator — authenticated where it matters — then consolidates every result into a single, deduplicated, graded report.
What you get
- Unified App Scan: run OWASP ZAP, Nuclei, the OWASP API Top-10 scanner, testssl.sh, Nmap, security-header and TLS checks, WAF detection, and technology fingerprinting against one target in a single pass
- Authenticated scanning: bearer/JWT, cookie, custom-header, or form login — with credentials verified against the target before the scan starts, so a login failure never masquerades as a clean result
- Authenticated traffic capture: a headless browser drives the logged-in app and records its real request surface (XHR/fetch, API calls) so testing covers what the app actually does
- Per-technology CVE lookup on detected stacks, enriched with NVD, CISA KEV, and EPSS
- Cross-tool deduplication and severity normalization into one canonical finding model
- Standards mapping to OWASP Top 10, OWASP API Top 10, and OWASP ASVS, with a coverage matrix and an overall A–F security rating
- Isolated execution: heavy scanners run in single-use, resource-capped containers on background workers
- Runs from CI/CD via API or the GitHub Action, with results available to gate the pull request
How it works
A single App Scan request resolves the target and dispatches each engine as an isolated container job through a phased pipeline — reconnaissance, discovery, testing, post-processing — paced for stability rather than overwhelming the target. Authenticated runs verify the supplied credentials first, then capture the logged-in request surface before testing it.
As engines complete, a normalizer collapses their varied output into one finding model, deduplicates across tools, normalizes severities, maps to standards, and grades the application — producing one consolidated report instead of a dozen separate tool exports.
One platform, one risk view
Dynamic findings flow into the same unified vulnerability queue, risk register, and reports as cloud, code, and container findings — one lifecycle, one severity scale, one history.
Other modules on the platform
Dynamic Application & API Security Testing (DAST) — frequently asked questions
What dynamic scanners does Offload Security run?
A single App Scan orchestrates OWASP ZAP and Nuclei for web, an OWASP API Top-10 scanner for APIs, testssl.sh for TLS, Nmap for network, plus security-header, WAF-detection and technology-fingerprinting checks — deduplicated into one graded report.
Can Offload run authenticated DAST scans?
Yes — bearer/JWT, cookie, custom-header, or form login. The supplied credentials are verified against the target before the scan starts, so a failed login can't masquerade as a clean result, and a headless browser captures the logged-in request surface before testing it.
Can DAST run in a CI/CD pipeline?
Yes. Dynamic scans run from any pipeline via the API or the GitHub Action, and the results can gate a pull request. Targets must be reachable from the platform, so point scans at a staging or preview environment.