Escape – The Application Security Blog

Best AI DAST tools in 2026: ranked, compared, and reviewed for enterprise security teams

Every DAST vendor put "AI" on the homepage this year. The word now means ten different things to different tools, and even when discussing with analysts, they mention they give an "AI" badge when a certain capability checks the box. This is our attempt to fix

DAST

How Escape DAST Bypassed Immich's Locked Folder By Finding a Missing Default

How the Escape DAST uncovered a missing default that lets any Immich user read locked-folder photos without the PIN.

Application Security

Best GraphQL security tools in 2026: An in-depth guide, including business logic and enterprise coverage

Discover a practical guide to GraphQL security tools, an in-depth comparison, and how to choose the right ones for your stack.

Product updates

Product Updates: Quick fix issues by prompting your agents and follow a live tree of agents in your pentest

We have two exciting product updates to make your security coverage and workflows that much more efficient and in-depth. What's new Quick fix issues in Cursor, Claude, Codex or copy the prompt to paste into your agent Escape now allows developers to prompt their agents with details regarding

Announcement

Introducing Escape's Partner Program

Join Escape's partner program to build offensive security into every stack, together.

AI pentesting

Modern AI-powered Pentesting Tools In-Depth benchmark

If you're evaluating AI for offensive security right now, you're weighing two questions at once. The first: why not skip the tooling and point a frontier model at your apps yourself? The second: among the AI pentesting tools you could actually buy, which one earns the

AI pentesting

Two Critical Vulnerabilities, One AI Pentester: How Cascade Found an Unauthenticated RCE and Walked Around the WAF

TL;DR We pointed Cascade, Escape's AI pentesting solution, at a single Spring + JSP customer portal. It came back with two findings that are typically difficult for traditional Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) scanners to detect: * Unauthenticated RCE via SpEL injection. A ref request parameter was dropped, unsanitized,

Pentesting

Race against the Machine: Can you match AI's pentesting time?

Race our AI in a series of pentesting challenges to try and beat its time.

Case Study

How Escape helped Bridgetech Group replace pentests with automated evidence

Security scanning that doesn't feel like going to the dentist. See how Bridgetech Group uses Escape for authenticated DAST and API scanning, replacing costly manual pentests with customer-ready security evidence for ISO 27001 and enterprise procurement.

Webinar recap

Claude in Security Engineering: From Proof-of-Concept to Production

Senior Security Engineer Geet Pradhan and Escape CEO Tristan Kalos run through how to use Claude to automate security engineering through threat modeling, detection engineering, and incident response

AI pentesting

Introducing Cascade: the multi-agent penetration testing that becomes an expert in your business

Escape CASCADE allows you to run deep, human-grade assessments across your whole attack surface, proves every finding with a working exploit, and gets more expert in your business with every engagement.

Case Study

How one of the leading FinTech platforms used Escape to automate business logic security testing at scale

How one of Europe's leading FinTech platforms automated business logic security testing and shifted to continuous, AI-driven coverage at scale.

Agentic Pentesting

How Escape AI Pentesting Exploited SSRF in LiteLLM

At Escape, we routinely test the AI infrastructure that teams deploy inside their cloud environments. LLM gateways, RAG pipelines, model proxies: these are services that make outbound HTTP requests by design, which makes them natural targets for SSRF. When we looked at LiteLLM, we found three confirmed SSRF sinks, a

Application Security

Escape AI Pentesting Agents 2.0 - A Deep Dive

What each agent actually does (BOLA, Regression testing agent, Business logic testing agent, and others..), how they coordinate, and what you can expect from Escape's AI pentesting product in the upcoming weeks.

Application Security

Benchmarking AI Pentesting Tools: A Practical Comparison

We benchmarked 4 AI pentesting tools: Escape, Shannon, Strix, and PentAGI against a modern vulnerable application. Learn more about their detection rates, false positive rates, and scanning speed.

Agentic Pentesting

Top XBOW Alternatives in 2026

Escape is the best XBOW alternative for continuous AI pentesting across APIs, web apps, and complex authentication — with regression testing, developer-ready remediation, and platform pricing suited for rapidly scaling orgs.

Application Security

DAST Tools: Complete Buyer's Guide & Top 10 Solutions in 2026

Compare the best DAST tools in 2026. Our quick buyer's guide covers 10 dynamic application security testing solutions, key features, pricing & how to choose the right one.

Everything I Learned About Harness Engineering and AI Factories in San Francisco (April 2026)

I spent the last week of March 2026 in San Francisco talking to CTOs, CPOs, and engineering leaders from companies of every size about how they actually build with AI agents today. I've met solo founders of pre-series A startups, I attended Y Combinator DevTool Day on March

API Security

Types of API security testing: a guide for enterprise teams

APIs account for a growing share of internet traffic, and attackers have noticed. In 2025, APIs accounted for 17% of all published security vulnerabilities, and 43% of newly added CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities were API-related, according to 2026 API ThreatStats Report. Between misconfigured authorization controls, exposed business logic, insecure API

Escape raises $18M Series A to replace legacy scanners with AI agent-driven discovery, pentesting, and remediation

Led by Balderton Capital, with participation of Uncorrelated Ventures and existing investors IRIS and Y Combinator, the $18M Series A financing will accelerate our mission to multiply the impact of security teams through full-lifecycle offensive security.

Webinar recap

How Small Security Teams Scale and Optimize Workflows in Decentralized Environments

Practical lessons from security practitioners at Visma and Schibsted on building efficient workflows, empowering engineering teams, and staying sane when you're outnumbered.

API Security

Burp Suite Alternatives: The Complete 2026 Comparison between Escape and Burp Suite

Escape is the leading Burp Suite alternative for modern application security teams. Unlike Burp Suite, Escape automates business logic testing (IDORs, SSRFs, access control flaws), ensures faster scanning with fewer false positives, and provides remediation code snippets.

Webinar

[Webinar] Doing More With Less: How Security Teams Escape Manual Work with Efficient Workflows

Security teams are under constant pressure to do more with the same resources. Manual processes, fragmented tools, and inefficient workflows can slow teams down and pull focus away from what matters most. In this live webinar, experienced security practitioners share how they’ve escaped the constraints of limited resources by

Application Security

DAST vs Penetration Testing: Key Differences in 2026

Learn about the key differences between DAST and pentesting, the emerging role of AI pentesting, their roles in security testing, and which is right for your business.

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