IAST integrates seamlessly into the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), continuously monitoring live applications and APIs to detect and prioritize vulnerabilities in real time. With comprehensive visibility into both source code and runtime behavior, IAST delivers precise, context-aware insights that accelerate secure development and support risk-based decision-making.
IAST runs autonomously during functional testing or QA, and also integrates with DevOps and security workflows. It intelligently correlates findings from DAST and SAST, streamlining issue grouping for faster, more efficient remediation.
API Discovery & Risk Insights
API Discovery & Risk Insights
Automatically detect and catalog internal APIs being used in an application, enriched with insights from SCA scans of open-source components. These findings are essential for assessing security risk and effectively communicating your application’s security risk.
Auto-Issue Correlation
Auto-Issue Correlation
HCL AppScan Auto Issue Correlation extracts data from each IAST, DAST and SAST issue and then uses a variety of heuristics to identify correlations. This effectively reduces the overall number of vulnerabilities and remediation tasks by grouping issues together where they can be addressed quickly and completely.
- DAST findings can be enriched with the details found in corresponding IAST and SAST scans, both of which have a view of the source code.
- SAST findings can be prioritized for remediation by using the accuracy of corresponding IAST and DAST results.
- SAST fixes can be validated with subsequent IAST and DAST scans that provide status updates on all correlated findings.
Patented Java Solution
Patented Java Solution
Our patented Java deployment solution needs less configuration and takes less time to set up since IAST can be deployed as a java agent AND also as a web application. You can start up scanning faster, deploy IAST after the web server has already started, and remove the IAST agent without restarting the server. Our agent also detects if there's an updated version of itself, downloads it and upgrades itself automatically (ASoC only).
Patented .NET Solution
Patented .NET Solution
Our patented IAST solution for .NET delivers unmatched speed and efficiency by running in managed code—not native—eliminating the need to disable core .NET optimizations. Because the agent operates within the .NET runtime itself, it unlocks deeper visibility, enabling broader issue detection and enhanced capabilities.
Eliminate False Positives
Eliminate False Positives
HCL Appscan IAST has also received patents for advanced algorithms that track information flowing through your application. Detected vulnerabilities automatically trigger additional checks to greatly reduce any false positives in the final report.
These checks include complex algorithms that replicate your code flow in real time and try to attack it in various ways. If you write your own working sanitization code, HCL AppScan IAST will detect it and not report on issues that go through it.
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