
Web application pentesting simulates real attacks against a live application — including authentication flows, business logic, and APIs — to find vulnerabilities an attacker could actually exploit, not just theoretical weaknesses a scanner flags.
DAST and SAST tools flag potential vulnerabilities and typically carry false-positive rates in the 80–90% range, leaving teams to manually confirm what's real. Terra's agents attempt exploitation and findings are verified before they are reported, so what lands in your queue is a confirmed issue, not a maybe. Scanners are good for breadth, Terra is built for validated depth
Yes. Terra's agents are built to adapt to an application's specific authentication flows and business logic, testing the paths a real attacker would use rather than a generic crawl of public pages.
Continuously, if the application changes often — which most production web apps do. Point-in-time pentests only reflect the code as it existed on test day; a single dependency update or feature release afterward can reopen risk that won't be caught until the next scheduled engagement. Terra tests on every meaningful code change instead.





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