Detectify Positioned as a Major Player in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)
STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — September 24, 2026 — Detectify, the application security platform built and trusted by ethical hackers, today announced that it has been positioned in the Major Player Category in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) 2026 Vendor Assessment (Doc #US54119126, September 2026). The IDC MarketScape evaluates suppliers across a comprehensive framework of quantitative and qualitative criteria, measuring short-term technical execution and long-term product strategy.
As DAST evolves from point-in-time scanning to continuous platforms like Detectify that integrate both application testing and attack surface management, the ability to validate findings through active exploitation, rather than generic version matching, has become a market differentiator for teams operating at scale.
"A core issue in modern AppSec is that security teams spend too much time chasing false positives generated by passive inference tools," said Rickard Carlsson, CEO and co-founder of Detectify. "Our approach focuses on payload-validated assessments, submitting crafted payloads and verifying an observable response, so teams know that a reported issue represents a real, exploitable risk."
Detectify believes this recognition reflects the platform's focus on actionable vulnerability management and continuous testing for AppSec-led security functions. Key capabilities of Detectify include:
- Payload-based exploitation: Validating findings via active payloads and observable responses, eliminating the noise of generic version-matching tools.
- Automated surface scaling: Surface Monitoring deduplicates and promotes internet-facing assets to scannable status automatically, scaling seamlessly across portfolios with hundreds of thousands of domains.
- AI & Crowdsourced intelligence: Harnessing Alfred, Detectify's AI research agent, along with an internal research team and a global community of ethical hackers, to rapidly convert threat intelligence and novel proofs-of-concept into runnable detection assessments.
About IDC MarketScape
IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.
About Detectify
Founded by a group of hackers in 2013, Stockholm-based Detectify is an application security platform trusted by over 2,100 organizations globally, from high-growth startups to the world's largest enterprises and public institutions. Detectify equips modern security teams with clarity and control over their attack surface. Fueled by real-world verified payloads from its global community of elite ethical hackers and scaled through its own AI-driven engines, Detectify enables organizations and their agents to identify and fix truly exploitable vulnerabilities before attackers do.
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