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Surface Monitoring/DAST
Scan Front-End App domains with ZAP

Scan Front-End App domains with ZAP

Aikido's surface monitoring is built on top of ZAP and Nuclei. Aikido uses these to monitor your app's public attack surface by probing your domain names for weaknesses.

What is Surface Monitoring Scanning?

Surface monitoring, sometimes better known as Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) inspects all the externally-facing components of your software, including the application programming interfaces (APIs), web pages, data transfer protocols, and other user-facing features.

Overview of checks performed

To see the checks performed by the Surface Monitoring Scanner, visit our checks overview page. Here, you'll find a detailed list of all the checks performed during the scan. Aikido will only perform safe, non-destructive automated test (eg no automated SQL injection attempts,..).

Add a domain to be scanned with ZAP

Step 1: Navigate to the Domains Overview Page or Domains Settings and select Front-End App

Step 2: Fill in the service URL for the repositories which have public-facing domains by filling out the configuration form. You can specify full paths.

Step 3: Optional: link your domain to a repository or domain

Step 4: Optional: set the sensitivity of the data


Set Up Surface Monitoring →