A comprehensive guide to GitLab DAST

This post provides a comprehensive overview of GitLab DAST, detailing its benefits for runtime vulnerability detection, shift-left security integration, and compliance. It elaborates on the differences between passive and active scans and offers detailed examples of authentication configuration within CI/CD pipelines, including specific selectors for login forms and the use of DAST_AUTH_REPORT for authentication success verification. The Tanuki Shop demo application is presented as a practical example.