This blog post is part four of our ongoing Automation with InsightAppSec series. Make sure to check out part one, part two, and part three to see everything you can achieve when combining InsightAppSec with automation.
Automation with the InsightAppSec API
As application development continues to trend toward a cycle of rapid releases, developers often find themselves caught in the hectic whirlwind of those releases, expected to swiftly push their code for deployments, and sometimes even straight to production. It’s certainly not ideal, which is why now more than ever, developers are in need of tools that can accompany their development workflows to help ease that process. The Rapid7 InsightAppSec API is one such tool. Released in October 2018, the API provides an easy way to directly interact with InsightAppSec and all the data it houses without having to rely on the user interface.
What does that mean? It means that developer teams can utilize the InsightAppSec API to perform tasks in an automated fashion to further aid in their web application development, maintenance, and dynamic application security testing (DAST). Such tasks can include the creation of new InsightAppSec applications and scan configurations, the launch of scans for these applications, and the retrieval of scan results in order to generate solution-specific outputs and reports. And, because there is no UI ..
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