Application Security Scanning
DAST-style scanning of your internet-facing web applications. ScruteX tests the live application from the outside, the way an attacker would, and reports each finding with the evidence behind it.
Key capabilities
Tests the running application
Checks are sent to your live web applications over HTTP, with no source code access and no agent to install. Findings reflect what is actually reachable from the internet.
Web vulnerability and CVE checks
Detects known CVEs in web applications and common web flaws such as SQL injection and insecure redirects, each tagged with severity and the CVE it maps to.
Evidence on every finding
Each result records the exact URL that matched, along with the technical detail of the request and response, so your developers can reproduce the issue rather than take it on trust.
Triage and remediation workflow
Mark findings as risk accepted, false positive, or remediated, follow remediation guidance, and track each one through to closure as an issue ticket.
Use cases
Web application security testing
Get a regular outside-in test of every web application on your in-scope domains, including the ones nobody remembered to put on the testing schedule.
Supporting OWASP-aligned programmes
Use findings such as injection flaws and known vulnerable components as evidence for the testing activities your OWASP-aligned or compliance programme calls for.
Checking a fix actually worked
Once a finding is marked as remediated, later scans show whether the application still responds the same way, so closure rests on a re-test rather than a status change.
How it compares with a standalone DAST tool
Application Security Scanning is built for breadth across your external attack surface. It complements a dedicated DAST tool rather than replacing one.
Scope comes from discovery
A standalone DAST tool scans the targets you configure. ScruteX scans the web applications found on your in-scope domains, so coverage follows your attack surface as it changes.
One place for external risk
Findings sit alongside open ports, SSL issues, outdated technologies, and leaked credentials, with the same severity scale, triage states, and ticketing.
Where a dedicated DAST tool goes further
For deep testing behind a login, custom crawl configuration, or business-logic testing of a single critical application, a dedicated DAST tool or a penetration test remains the right choice.
Why it matters
Web applications are the part of your perimeter that changes most often and that attackers probe first. Scanning them as part of your attack surface programme means a newly exposed application is tested without anyone having to remember to add it to a separate tool.
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