Vishrut Iyengar

There is a moment every AppSec leader knows too well. The scanner is ready. The target is ready. But there is a backlog. It’s not checker coverage or crawling finesse—it is the login screen. Test accounts have expired again. Multifactor authentication (MFA) codes are inconsistent across apps. Scripts that worked last month now fail because a button label moved. The team opens tickets, hunts down owners, and loses another week.

If there’s one thing everyone agrees on, it’s this: DAST is hard to run at scale. The blocker isn’t the scanner’s brains—it’s getting past login, keeping that access reliable, and doing it across dozens or hundreds of apps without a thicket of brittle scripts and expiring credentials. That’s the constraint we set out to remove in Polaris fAST Dynamic. Earlier this quarter we introduced AI assisted authentication for fAST Dynamic, designed to make authenticated DAST start in minutes.

Learn more about the integration of Black Duck Assist™, our AI application security assistant, into our Code Sight™ IDE Plug-in. For developers, Black Duck Assist is like having their own application security expert working with them, helping to ensure the code that they, and their AI coding assistants, write can be trusted to be free from security defects.