From Code to Runtime: The Critical Role of DAST in Application Security

2026-03-05T19:23:50Z17909610a41912ab4ca8d9b167a3ccb9e8b66cfa92906caec376434a6860da2c
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What happened

Collection of Rapid7 blog posts covering application security and recent threat activity: advocacy for continuous DAST in runtime app security; partner and summit announcements; analysis of AI-assisted SAST (Anthropic Claude Code Security); a report on digital footprint risks and reconnaissance; a Metasploit wrap-up adding new exploit/evasion modules (notably Ollama path traversal RCE CVE-2024-37032, Grandstream GXP1600 stack overflow CVE-2026-2329, BeyondTrust PRA/RS support for CVE-2026-1731); and a critical Cisco Catalyst SD‑WAN Controller/Manager authentication bypass actively exploited in

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2026-03-05T19:23:50Z
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