Today, Rapid7 is pleased to announce an AppSpider (application security scanning) update that includes enhanced support for JavaScript Single Page Applications (SPAs) built with ReactJS. This release is significant because SPAs are proliferating rapidly and increasingly creating challenges for security teams. Some of the key challenges with securing SPA's are: 1. Diverse frameworks - The diversity and number of JavaScript frameworks contributes to the complexity in finding adequate scan co
AppSpider's got even more Swagger now! As you may remember, we first launched improved RESTful web services security testing [/2015/12/17/appspider-s-got-swagger-the-first-end-to-end-security-testing-for-rest-apis] last year. Since that time, you have been able to test the REST APIs that have a Swagger definition file, automatically without capturing proxy traffic. Now, we have expanded upon that functionality so that AppSpider can automatically discover Swagger definition files as part of the