FortiDAST Dynamic Application Security Testing in Africa
FortiDAST helps development, DevOps, DevSecOps, and security teams examine running web applications from an attacker-style external viewpoint. The service automates black-box testing, maps reachable application paths, probes for runtime weaknesses, prioritizes findings through CVSS-informed threat scoring, and provides remediation guidance that technical teams can use to plan corrective work. FourTeck supports buyers with license sizing, target-count review, deployment planning, quote assistance, activation coordination, and regional procurement guidance.
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Fortinet
FortiDAST
Dynamic application security testing service
Running web applications and APIs
Cloud scanning and proxy scanning; options depend on requirement
10 assets per licensed block
Development, DevOps, DevSecOps, security, risk, and compliance
Configuration dependent; contact FourTeck for current options
Term and entitlement must be confirmed before purchase
License guidance, quote support, and delivery coordination
Product Overview
Modern business applications change frequently. New releases add pages, forms, APIs, integrations, authentication flows, and third-party components. Each change can introduce a weakness that is invisible during normal functional testing. FortiDAST addresses this challenge by assessing an application while it is running and interacting with it from the outside. This approach is commonly described as black-box testing because the scanner does not depend on source-code access to begin examining exposed behavior. It crawls the application, identifies reachable routes, submits purpose-built test inputs, observes responses, and records evidence that can help security and engineering teams understand runtime risk.
The service is designed for organizations that need repeatable testing rather than a one-time manual exercise. Scans can be scheduled at selected times or repeated at chosen intervals, helping teams revisit applications after meaningful releases, configuration changes, platform migrations, or remediation work. Findings are presented with supporting detail, severity context, and suggested corrective action. This makes the output useful to more than one department. Developers can study affected requests and repair guidance, security teams can prioritize exposure, managers can review summaries, and auditors can use reports as evidence that application testing forms part of an established security process.
FortiDAST combines an advanced crawler with expert-designed fuzzers and FortiGuard Labs research. The crawler seeks branches and pathways in traditional and JavaScript-heavy web applications, while the testing engines probe for categories such as injection, broken access control, cryptographic failures, server-side request forgery, cross-site scripting, file handling problems, security misconfiguration, and other runtime weaknesses. Coverage should always be reviewed against the current release, selected scan policy, application design, authentication method, and licensed entitlement.
For Africa buyers, the purchasing decision is not only about choosing a product name. The correct license count, target definition, access method, testing window, renewal plan, internal-application reachability, and workflow integrations all affect the final order. FourTeck helps organizations translate these technical requirements into a clearer procurement request. This is especially valuable for businesses with several domains, regional portals, customer platforms, payment applications, internal services, or development environments that must be tested under one coordinated application security program.
Key Business Benefits
The value of a testing platform is measured by how well it helps a business reduce uncertainty, shorten remediation time, and build security into normal delivery work. The following benefits explain where FortiDAST can support that objective.
◆ Runtime Risk Visibility
Testing a running application reveals behavior that may not be obvious in design documents or source reviews alone. The outside-in perspective helps teams see how exposed pages, parameters, sessions, and services respond when they receive hostile or unexpected input. This gives decision-makers a practical view of exploitable application behavior rather than a purely theoretical list of coding concerns.
◆ Repeatable Testing
Scheduled and recurring scans help organizations move away from irregular testing that depends on someone remembering to start it. Repeatability supports release governance, post-remediation validation, routine risk reviews, and evidence gathering. Teams can establish a testing rhythm that fits release frequency, application criticality, and acceptable operational windows.
◆ Prioritized Remediation
Not every finding creates the same business risk. CVSS-informed threat scoring and categorized results help technical teams decide what requires immediate attention, what should enter the next sprint, and what needs further validation. Better prioritization reduces the chance that engineering effort is consumed by low-impact issues while material exposure remains unresolved.
◆ Developer-Ready Guidance
Detailed vulnerability information and suggested remediation steps help bridge the gap between detection and repair. Developers receive clearer technical context, while security teams gain a structured basis for follow-up. This can reduce repeated clarification cycles and support more productive collaboration between application owners, engineering teams, and risk stakeholders.
◆ Pipeline Alignment
Integration with FortiDevSec and selected development tools allows application testing to fit more naturally into continuous delivery practices. Organizations can connect runtime assessment to build, release, issue-management, or security workflows rather than treating testing as a separate end-of-project activity. Final integration support should be confirmed for the current platform version.
◆ Management and Audit Reporting
Summary and detailed reports help different audiences consume the same testing program at the correct level. Security leaders can review exposure and progress, application owners can track findings, and governance teams can retain evidence of scheduled assessments and corrective activity. Reporting does not replace a complete compliance program, but it can support one.
◆ Scalable Asset Licensing
Licensed capacity is organized in blocks of ten assets, allowing buyers to size the service around the number of IP or FQDN targets that require assessment. Stackable licensing can support growth when additional applications or environments are added. Accurate inventory is important because target definition directly affects quantity and cost.
Product Highlights
Advanced Application Crawling
The crawler is designed to discover branches and pathways across web applications, including interfaces that rely heavily on JavaScript. Authenticated crawling can be configured where a valid user journey must be followed before protected areas become reachable.
Expert-Designed Fuzzing
Purpose-built test modules submit crafted inputs to identify classes of weakness across application functions. The testing approach is informed by Fortinet expertise and FortiGuard Labs research, with coverage that includes OWASP Top 10 categories and additional risks.
Threat-Score Prioritization
Results are organized by severity and used to create an overall threat view for the target. This helps teams move from a long technical list toward a more manageable remediation sequence based on potential impact and urgency.
Flexible Testing Reach
Cloud-based scanning supports public applications without requiring customers to manage the scanning infrastructure. Proxy scanning can extend assessment to internal applications that are not directly exposed to the public internet, subject to deployment design and authorization.
Workflow Integrations
Current documentation describes integration paths for Jira, REST API automation, selected CI/CD tools, FortiDevSec, and Fortinet application-protection platforms. Buyers should identify mandatory workflows before ordering and confirm support in the intended release.
Evidence and Remediation Detail
Teams can drill into discovered vulnerabilities, review associated information, and use recommended remediation as a starting point for repair. Summary and detailed reporting help technical and non-technical stakeholders review the program.
Feature availability can change by release, entitlement, scan type, and integration. A product demonstration or requirements review is recommended when the purchase depends on a specific authentication flow, API format, pipeline connector, reporting format, or virtual-patching process.
Technical Specifications
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Brand | Fortinet |
| Product | FortiDAST Dynamic Application Security Testing |
| Service Type | Cloud-enabled dynamic application security testing and vulnerability assessment |
| Assessment Method | Automated black-box testing of running applications |
| Primary Targets | Web applications and APIs reachable through authorized IP, FQDN, or URI-based scope, depending on license |
| Core Engines | Application crawler, reconnaissance capability, expert-designed fuzzers, vulnerability analysis, and exploit-related assessment functions |
| Risk Coverage | OWASP Top 10 and additional web application vulnerabilities; exact checks depend on current release and scan policy |
| Deployment Options | Cloud-based scanning and proxy scanning for internal applications; final design is requirement dependent |
| Authentication | Authenticated scanning and recorded workflows are supported in applicable scenarios; confirm method and complexity |
| Scheduling | On-demand, scheduled, and recurring tests based on configured criteria |
| Prioritization | Findings categorized by CVSS severity with target threat scoring |
| Reporting | Summary and detailed vulnerability reports with remediation information |
| Integrations | FortiDevSec, Jira, REST API, selected CI/CD tools, FortiWeb, and FortiAppSec Cloud WAF functions, subject to current version |
| Licensed Asset Count | 10 assets per standard licensed block; licenses can be sized for additional targets |
| Standard SKU Reference | FC-10-FPENT-236-02-DD for a block adding 10 IP/FQDN targets to one cloud account |
| Subscription Term | Licensed subscription documentation describes 364-day validity; confirm current commercial term and renewal date |
| Support and Renewal | Based on selected entitlement and supplier terms; obtain written quotation and renewal guidance |
| Availability | Configuration dependent; contact FourTeck for current options |
How to Select the Correct License
Start by creating an inventory of every application endpoint that must be assessed. A public website, customer portal, API gateway, staging domain, regional domain, and internal application may each require separate scope depending on how targets are defined. Do not estimate only from the number of business applications; confirm how each IP, FQDN, URI, or environment will be licensed. The standard licensed block supports ten assets, so an organization with more targets should calculate enough blocks and leave room for planned additions where appropriate.
Next, document whether applications are internet-facing or internal, whether authentication is required, whether login involves multiple pages or multi-factor steps, whether scanning must run during restricted windows, and whether findings must flow into Jira, CI/CD tools, FortiWeb, or another system. FourTeck can use this information to prepare a clearer quotation request and reduce the risk of purchasing insufficient capacity or discovering an integration gap after activation.
Configuration and Buyer Guidance
A successful deployment begins with a written testing scope. Buyers should identify the applications, business owners, technical contacts, environments, and permitted testing windows before purchasing the subscription. Scanning a customer portal may require a different workflow from scanning a public brochure site. An authenticated application may need test accounts, role-based journeys, recorded login actions, or session handling. An internal system may require a proxy component and network approval. These details affect setup effort even when the license quantity appears straightforward.
1. Define the Workload
List production, staging, development, API, and internal targets. Rank them by business criticality, data sensitivity, exposure, and release frequency. This helps determine scan order and recurring schedules.
2. Confirm User Journeys
Document authentication, role types, test credentials, one-time passwords, redirects, and business transactions. Complex workflows should be reviewed before activation so the crawler reaches protected functions.
3. Plan Safe Scan Windows
Agree on authorized targets and suitable testing periods. Even automated security testing should follow change-management, application-owner approval, backup, monitoring, and incident-escalation procedures.
4. Review Integrations
Identify issue tracking, CI/CD, reporting, API automation, and web application firewall workflows that are mandatory. Confirm version support and access permissions before the project begins.
5. Assign Remediation Owners
Decide who validates findings, who accepts risk, who repairs code, who changes infrastructure, and who verifies remediation. A scanner can identify issues, but governance determines whether they are resolved.
6. Protect the Renewal Date
Record subscription dates, procurement lead time, asset growth, and budget ownership. Scanning operations become unavailable after expiration, although previous reports may remain viewable under documented conditions.
Businesses should also consider whether they need implementation assistance, periodic security review, managed scanning, developer training, or complementary protection such as a web application firewall. FourTeck can help match the product to the wider requirement, but application ownership, legal authorization, test data, and remediation responsibility must remain clearly assigned within the customer organization.
Ideal Business Use Cases
Customer-Facing Web Portals
Banks, insurers, retailers, schools, hospitals, logistics firms, and public agencies often expose customer portals that process identities, transactions, documents, or service requests. Recurring black-box testing helps identify runtime weaknesses after application releases and infrastructure changes.
DevSecOps Release Programs
Teams delivering weekly or daily releases can connect application assessment to development workflows and recurring schedules. This supports earlier visibility, structured triage, and retesting after fixes instead of waiting for an annual review.
API Security Assessment
Organizations operating mobile back ends, partner APIs, payment integrations, or service-to-service endpoints can include supported APIs in their assessment program. Scope, authentication, documentation, and current API crawling support should be confirmed.
Internal Business Applications
Human-resource tools, finance portals, service desks, intranet applications, and internal dashboards may contain sensitive information even though they are not public. Proxy scanning can help reach suitable internal targets without exposing them to the internet.
Compliance Evidence Programs
Organizations subject to internal controls or external assessment can use scheduled scans and retained reports as one part of broader evidence gathering. The service does not certify compliance by itself, but it can demonstrate that application testing and remediation tracking are being performed.
Managed Security Services
Service providers and security consultancies may use licensed capacity to structure recurring assessment services for approved customer assets. They should confirm account design, asset ownership, authorization, reporting separation, service boundaries, and license terms before building a managed offering.
FortiDAST is most valuable when the organization has a defined process for validating findings and correcting them. It complements secure coding, source analysis, dependency review, penetration testing, web application firewalls, access control, logging, incident response, and governance. It should not be treated as a replacement for every other application security practice. A layered program provides stronger assurance because each control examines risk from a different perspective.
FortiDAST Advanced Crawling and Runtime Discovery
A dynamic scanner can only test what it can reach. Modern applications often present content through JavaScript, client-side routing, conditional menus, session state, and role-based interfaces. A basic URL collector may see the landing page but miss the functions that matter most, such as account changes, checkout workflows, document uploads, administration pages, or API calls generated after user interaction. FortiDAST uses an advanced crawler designed to map branches and pathways across web applications, including JavaScript-heavy experiences. It can also be configured for authenticated crawling when the assessment must enter protected areas.
For buyers, crawler quality affects both coverage and confidence. If the crawler cannot reproduce a workflow, unvisited pages are not assessed and the resulting report may create a false sense of completeness. That is why application owners should prepare test credentials, identify user roles, explain redirects, document multi-page login sequences, and confirm whether multi-factor authentication or one-time tokens are involved. Current tooling can support recorded user activity for complex login flows, but every application behaves differently. A demonstration using a non-production target can be useful before a large rollout.
The crawler also needs boundaries. Security teams should define inclusion and exemption lists, authorized domains, permitted paths, scan depth, and testing windows. Applications may link to payment gateways, identity providers, third-party services, or external support systems that the customer is not authorized to test. Clear scope prevents accidental assessment of unrelated assets and improves report relevance. It also reduces noise by directing effort toward business functions that belong to the organization.
FourTeck recommends that buyers treat crawler configuration as a joint task between application developers, system administrators, and security staff. Developers understand workflow logic, administrators understand network reachability, and security teams understand risk and authorization. Bringing these roles together during onboarding helps the scanner reach meaningful functions without crossing technical or legal boundaries.
FortiDAST Vulnerability Testing, Scoring, and Remediation
After the crawler identifies reachable application elements, testing modules submit crafted requests and evaluate the responses. FortiDAST draws on FortiGuard Labs research and expert-developed fuzzers to examine common and emerging classes of application weakness. Documented coverage includes injection problems, cross-site scripting, broken access control, indirect object references, server-side request forgery, path traversal, insecure file handling, cryptographic issues, security misconfiguration, information disclosure, and other conditions associated with OWASP guidance and wider web risk research.
The business purpose is not to produce the largest possible findings list. It is to identify weaknesses that deserve action and communicate them clearly enough for the responsible team to respond. FortiDAST categorizes vulnerabilities by CVSS severity and uses those values to contribute to a threat score for the target. This gives security leaders a high-level picture while preserving detailed information for technical investigation. A critical result may require an immediate deployment hold or compensating control, while a lower-severity item may enter scheduled maintenance after validation.
Suggested remediation helps developers understand the direction of repair, but it should be applied with application context. A recommendation may require code change, framework update, web server configuration, access-control redesign, input validation, safer output handling, stronger cryptography, or a platform patch. The owner should reproduce the issue, confirm impact, choose the correct fix, test that fix, and then run a verification scan. Closing an item only because a setting was changed can leave risk unresolved when the underlying behavior remains exploitable.
Organizations should define severity thresholds and service-level targets before the first scan. For example, they may require immediate triage for critical findings, a short remediation window for high findings, and documented risk acceptance for exceptions. This turns scanner output into an operational process. FourTeck can help buyers specify reporting and workflow needs during procurement, while the customer retains responsibility for validating, repairing, and governing discovered risk.
FortiDAST DevSecOps Integration and Recurring Assurance
Application security loses value when testing happens too late to influence a release. FortiDAST can align runtime assessment with modern delivery processes through integration with FortiDevSec and selected CI/CD tools. Current documentation identifies Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps paths, while Jira integration can move findings into issue-management workflows. REST API capability supports additional automation, and Fortinet application-protection integrations can assist with virtual-patching workflows in supported designs. Exact connectors and functions should be confirmed for the current release.
The right integration pattern depends on release risk. A low-risk internal site may run a scheduled weekly scan. A payment application may require a scan before production deployment and another after release. A large organization may separate quick pipeline checks from deeper overnight assessment. Teams should decide what happens when a scan finds a critical issue: block deployment, create a ticket, notify an application owner, request manual validation, or apply a temporary web application firewall rule. Automation without an agreed decision process can create noise instead of control.
Recurring assurance is also important after deployment. Configuration drift, framework updates, new third-party scripts, API changes, and infrastructure migration can introduce risk even when the application code has not changed significantly. Scheduled scans provide a repeated outside-in check, while scan comparison and reporting help teams observe whether exposure is improving. This makes the service useful across the full application lifecycle rather than only during initial launch.
Before purchasing, buyers should list the development platforms, pipeline tools, ticketing systems, notification channels, and Fortinet products already in use. They should also identify who owns connector credentials and whether the integration must cross production, test, or restricted networks. FourTeck can include these requirements in the quotation discussion so the selected entitlement and implementation plan support the intended workflow.
What Buyers Should Check Before Purchase
Before requesting a quote, buyers should confirm the required configuration, usage environment, compatibility needs, support expectations, and delivery location. Choosing only by product name can result in too few licensed assets, incomplete application reach, missing workflow integrations, or an unclear renewal plan. The checklist below helps create a request that procurement and technical teams can review together.
Configuration Fit
Count public domains, internal domains, APIs, staging environments, and regional portals. Confirm whether each IP, FQDN, or URI counts as a separate asset under the intended license. Include expected growth so the initial quantity does not become inadequate immediately after deployment.
Compatibility Check
Identify application frameworks, authentication methods, APIs, identity providers, third-party services, and development tools. Confirm that required crawling, proxy, ticketing, pipeline, reporting, and web application firewall workflows are supported in the current version.
Availability and Support
Ask for the exact SKU, subscription term, activation process, included support, renewal lead time, and regional delivery method. Availability may vary with supplier status, quantity, entitlement changes, and country. Obtain these details in writing rather than assuming a standard package.
Deployment Preparation
Decide whether cloud scanning is sufficient or whether internal applications need proxy reachability. Prepare DNS, firewall, allow-list, test-account, monitoring, backup, change-window, and escalation requirements. Confirm that legal authorization covers every target.
Long-Term Usage Cost
Evaluate annual renewal, asset growth, implementation effort, integration maintenance, staff time for validation, remediation capacity, and possible managed-service needs. Subscription price is only one part of the operational cost of an effective testing program.
Quote Preparation
Provide company name, delivery country, target count, application types, public or internal status, authentication complexity, preferred term, required integrations, desired start date, project quantity, and support expectations. This information helps FourTeck request the correct commercial option.
Buyers comparing similar solutions should also ask how target licensing is measured, how authenticated workflows are recorded, how false positives are validated, how reports are exported, how retesting is handled, and what happens when the subscription expires. These questions reveal whether the service fits daily operations, not only whether it can run a scan.
Africa Availability and Service Support
FourTeck supports product inquiries across Africa with assistance for license selection, target-count review, commercial quotation, activation coordination, deployment planning, and renewal guidance. Availability may vary based on the selected SKU, subscription term, supplier status, country, order quantity, and current Fortinet licensing structure. For that reason, buyers should request a current written quotation rather than relying on an old price list or a previous project.
The support conversation can begin before procurement. Customers may share an application inventory, public and internal target count, authentication requirements, preferred testing window, required integrations, and expected start date. FourTeck can use these details to help clarify the request and identify related products or services that may be needed. Where the project includes internal scanning, web application firewall protection, CI/CD integration, or multiple business units, a technical review is especially useful.
Delivery for a software subscription usually involves commercial processing, license entitlement, account activation, and electronic coordination rather than physical shipment. Timelines depend on order validation, supplier processing, payment, entitlement availability, and customer readiness. Warranty and technical support terms should be checked against the quotation and applicable service agreement. FourTeck does not assume that every license, feature, or renewal term is identical across all transactions.
Africa Country and Regional Coverage
Businesses across Africa, including Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda, Ethiopia, South Africa, Zambia, Botswana, Senegal, and other regional markets can contact FourTeck for product availability, subscription guidance, configuration review, and quote assistance. The team can help buyers organize suitable license quantities, related Fortinet application-security options, deployment requirements, and project supply needs based on business use.
Regional requirements can differ. Some organizations need cloud-based testing of public portals, while others need proxy scanning for internal applications. Financial institutions may prioritize authenticated customer journeys and audit reporting. Universities may need to test several public and student systems. Government agencies may require formal authorization, controlled testing windows, and detailed procurement documentation. Enterprises with operations in several countries may need a consolidated asset plan that distinguishes regional domains, shared services, and separate application owners.
FourTeck can coordinate the commercial inquiry from one requirements summary, but licensing, tax, payment, delivery, support, and activation conditions may vary by country. Buyers should provide the final delivery location and legal customer entity when requesting a quotation.
GCC, Middle East and Africa Availability
FourTeck Africa can support product inquiries for organizations across Africa while also guiding regional technology requirements through selected FourTeck platforms serving GCC and Middle East markets. Businesses operating across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and African countries may need coordinated licensing for shared web platforms, regional customer portals, group applications, or separate legal entities. The correct approach depends on account ownership, asset location, support terms, and procurement policy.
Availability, delivery options, commercial terms, warranty handling, and configuration support may vary by country, selected entitlement, supplier status, and order quantity. Customers with multi-region projects should explain whether they need one central FortiCloud account, separate operational teams, individual invoices, local delivery documentation, or a group-wide renewal date. They should also identify whether applications are hosted centrally, deployed per country, or exposed through different regional domains.
For regional guidance, buyers may visit FourTeck Africa, FourTeck Kenya, FourTeck Uganda, or FourTeck UAE. Use the contact form to share the delivery country and complete project scope so the inquiry can be routed appropriately.
Other Options Buyers May Consider
Application security usually requires several complementary controls. The following Fortinet solutions can support related requirements, depending on whether the priority is runtime testing, web application protection, secure development, attack-surface monitoring, cloud workload protection, or network security. These products are not direct substitutes in every project; FourTeck can help identify the correct combination.
FortiWeb
Suitable for organizations that need a web application firewall to inspect and protect application traffic. It can complement testing by applying enforcement and supported virtual-patching workflows.
FortiDevSec
Designed for development-stage security workflows and broader CI/CD lifecycle coverage. It may be paired with runtime testing to help teams examine risk earlier and after deployment.
FortiAppSec Cloud
A cloud-delivered application protection option for organizations seeking web application and API security controls with supported integration into the Fortinet ecosystem.
FortiRecon
Supports attack-surface and external-risk use cases where organizations need broader visibility into exposed digital assets and threats beyond application scanning alone.
FortiCNAPP
Relevant to cloud-native security programs that require code, workload, posture, and application security capabilities across cloud environments. Current licensing can also provide URI-based FortiDAST entitlements in applicable plans.
FortiGate Security
Useful for organizations that also need network firewall, segmentation, secure connectivity, and threat-control capabilities around the infrastructure hosting business applications.
Why Buyers Choose FourTeck
Cybersecurity procurement is easier when commercial and technical questions are reviewed together. FourTeck supports organizations that need help turning an application-security objective into a practical product request. The discussion can include target count, license type, deployment method, application accessibility, authentication complexity, expected integration, delivery country, subscription term, and renewal planning. This reduces ambiguity before a quotation is issued.
Assistance for SMB, enterprise, education, public-sector, service-provider, and project-based technology requirements.
Help documenting the expected asset count, application environment, integration needs, and subscription requirements.
Commercial requests can be prepared with clearer quantities, delivery details, term expectations, and project context.
Regional inquiry routing and coordination for electronic license delivery, activation, and procurement documentation.
Support terms, entitlement dates, renewal timing, and supplier conditions can be reviewed against the quotation.
FourTeck can discuss complementary application protection, secure development, cloud security, and network security options.
FourTeck does not rely on unverified stock, price, or partnership claims. Current availability and terms are confirmed during quotation. Buyers receive the strongest result when they provide complete technical and commercial information at the start of the inquiry.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is FortiDAST used for?
It is used to perform automated black-box security testing against running web applications and supported APIs. The service crawls reachable application functions, submits security test inputs, analyzes responses, identifies potential vulnerabilities, prioritizes results, and provides remediation information. Organizations use it for recurring application assessment, release assurance, vulnerability management, risk reporting, and support for broader governance programs.
Is FortiDAST available for businesses in Africa?
FourTeck accepts inquiries from businesses and public organizations across Africa. Availability depends on the required license, target quantity, subscription term, supplier status, country, and customer account details. Because the product is a subscription service, delivery normally involves commercial processing and electronic entitlement rather than physical shipment. Request a current quotation with the final delivery country and legal entity.
How many applications can one license scan?
Current Fortinet documentation states that a licensed FortiDAST block supports vulnerability scanning for ten assets. The standard SKU adds ten IP or FQDN targets to one cloud account. Buyers should not assume that one business application always equals one asset. Production, staging, regional domains, APIs, and internal services may require separate target entries, so create an inventory before ordering.
Can FourTeck help select the correct configuration?
Yes. FourTeck can help review the target count, public or internal application status, authentication requirements, scan schedule, deployment method, subscription term, delivery country, and required integrations. The customer should provide an accurate application inventory and identify mandatory workflows. This information helps prepare a more suitable quotation and reduces the risk of ordering insufficient capacity.
Can it scan internal applications?
FortiDAST supports proxy scanning for internal web applications that are not exposed to the public internet. The deployment requires planning for network reachability, authorization, allow-listing, proxy placement, credentials, and security controls. Buyers should describe the internal environment before purchase so the required design, implementation effort, and current platform support can be reviewed.
Does FortiDAST integrate with development tools?
Current product documentation describes integration with FortiDevSec and major CI/CD tools, and the user guide includes paths for Jenkins, GitLab, GitHub Actions, and Azure DevOps. Jira and REST API functions are also documented. Integration capability can change by version, entitlement, and deployment, so confirm every required connector and workflow before ordering.
Does the service replace a penetration test?
It provides automated dynamic testing and can identify many important runtime vulnerabilities, but it does not replace every manual assessment. Skilled testers can explore complex business logic, chained attack paths, unusual authorization issues, and organization-specific risk in ways that require human judgment. Many organizations combine automated recurring scans with secure development, code analysis, manual penetration testing, and protective controls.
What information is needed for a quotation?
Provide the delivery country, legal customer name, number of targets, public and internal application count, authentication complexity, preferred subscription term, desired start date, required integrations, and any project or bulk-supply requirements. Mention whether you already use FortiWeb, FortiDevSec, FortiCNAPP, Jira, or a specific CI/CD platform so related options can be considered.
What happens when the subscription expires?
Fortinet documentation states that vulnerability-assessment operations such as asset authorization and scanning are no longer available after expiration, while existing scan results and reports remain viewable under the documented conditions. Renewal planning is therefore important. Record the entitlement date, procurement lead time, asset growth, budget owner, and supplier contact well before the subscription ends.
Can businesses request multi-site or project supply?
Yes. Businesses, groups, service providers, and public projects can request quotations for multiple licensed blocks or regional requirements. Share whether targets will use one central account or separate operational structures, and identify delivery entities, countries, support expectations, and renewal dates. FourTeck can coordinate the commercial inquiry, while final licensing and account design remain subject to product terms.
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