Scaling DAST Across the Enterprise

Scaling DAST Across the Enterprise

Scaling DAST from pilot projects to enterprise deployment requires systematic approach. Build Centers of Excellence that maintain expertise, configurations, and best practices. These centers support new teams adopting DAST, preventing each team from repeating common mistakes. Standardize on tool sets to simplify support and enable knowledge sharing. Create self-service portals where teams can initiate scans within governance guidelines.

Address the challenge of scanning hundreds or thousands of applications. Implement risk-based prioritization to focus resources on critical applications. Use application profiling to group similar applications and share scan configurations. Deploy distributed scanning infrastructure to parallelize testing. Consider managed security service providers for applications not justifying dedicated resources. Scaling requires both technical infrastructure and operational processes.

Maintain visibility across large-scale deployments. Implement centralized dashboards aggregating results from all scanning activities. Track metrics like scan coverage, vulnerability trends, and remediation rates across the portfolio. Create executive reports demonstrating risk reduction and compliance status. Use analytics to identify systemic issues requiring architectural changes rather than application-specific fixes.