DAST's API Blindness—Why Schema-Aware Testing Must Enter CI/CD

Traditional DAST scanners were built for server-rendered web applications and fundamentally miss vulnerabilities in modern API-first architectures. As breaches like Optus—where millions of records were stolen from an unauthenticated API endpoint—make clear, organizations need schema-aware, authenticated testing integrated into CI/CD pipelines to catch authorization flaws that conventional tools overlook.