DAST is a type of application security testing that evaluates applications to see how they perform in the real world. While other forms of Application Security Testing can evaluate the quality of the code (SAST) and/or whether there are any known vulnerabilities in the third-party components (SCA) that our developers use, DAST scanning can check for configuration errors, certificate issues, deployment issues, as well as exploitable vulnerabilities instead of just flaws that may turn into a vulnerability.