The 2026 IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Dynamic Application Security Testing Vendor Assessment breaks down what’s driving the next phase of AppSec and what security leaders should prioritize now.

In this report, you’ll learn:

• How AI and agentic capabilities are pushing DAST toward autonomous pentesting and continuous offensive testing.
• Why testing AI-backed applications and LLM endpoints requires evaluating prompt injection, data disclosure, and runtime interactions.
• How proof-based evidence models, validated exploitability, and low false positives reduce manual triage for security teams.
• Why developer workflow integration is moving beyond CI/CD pipelines into IDEs and natural language coding agents.
• What security leaders need to consider regarding structural variation in pricing models across application counts, user seats, scan capacity, and per-engagement units.