Developer-Centric Enterprise DAST with Auto Remediation (STAR)

What do you like best about the product?

I like the emphasis on testing applications in a way that can complement the pace of product development. Restaurant technology has several moving parts: customers place orders through digital channels, loyalty systems manage rewards, and backend services connect different parts of the business. Bright Security provides a way to examine web applications and APIs for potential weaknesses without making security assessment a completely separate exercise from development.

What do you dislike about the product?

The results still need informed interpretation. Not every finding carries the same level of risk, particularly when applications have different functions and business dependencies. Product security and engineering teams need a shared understanding of which issues should be addressed first. That means the platform works best when paired with a defined triage process rather than treated as an automatic substitute for security judgment.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

One challenge in restaurant technology is understanding how changes to one digital service might introduce security exposure elsewhere. An update to an ordering interface, for example, may involve API endpoints or authentication flows that are not immediately visible to someone reviewing the front end alone. Bright Security can help uncover potential vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs, giving product security engineers and developers additional information to investigate. This supports more informed risk discussions, helps teams identify areas that need remediation, and provides a useful testing layer as digital services expand or change. The business benefit is a more structured way to consider application risk across customer-facing technology.

What do you like best about the product?

What stands out to me is the potential to make application security more accessible to the teams building and maintaining our digital services. In food and beverage, the technology behind online ordering, loyalty accounts, promotions, and restaurant operations needs to evolve alongside changing customer expectations. Bright Security offers a way to examine application vulnerabilities as part of that development cycle instead of treating security as a separate activity that happens only near release time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Getting the right testing coverage requires some initial coordination. Applications can differ significantly in how they handle authentication, customer sessions, and third-party integrations, so teams need to invest time in configuring and validating their testing workflows. That setup work is manageable, but it is important to plan for it rather than expect every application to be ready immediately.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

A major challenge for a large food-service organization is maintaining visibility into security risks across different digital experiences. An online ordering application, a rewards platform, and a service used by restaurant employees may have very different technical requirements, but weaknesses in any of them can affect business operations or customer trust. Bright Security can help identify potential vulnerabilities in web applications and APIs, giving product and engineering teams information they can use to investigate risks earlier. A more consistent testing process can also support better prioritization, helping us focus attention on issues that warrant remediation rather than relying entirely on manual checks.

What do you like best about the product?

The best thing is that it actually fits into how we work. Most scanners feel like they were built in 2005, but Bright feels modern. It doesn't scream about 500 "vulnerabilities" that turn out to be nothing. It only pings us for stuff that actually matters. Also, the remediation tips are actually written for human beings, not just robots, so my team knows exactly what to fix without a three-hour meeting.

What do you dislike about the product?

The UI can feel a little dense at first. There’s a lot going on in the dashboard, and it took me a few tries to find exactly where some of the scan settings were buried.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a way to scale our security testing without hiring three more security engineers. This lets our current team handle way more code than they could manually.

What do you like best about the product?

I really like how Bright Security makes dynamic application and API security testing feel seamless in a developer’s day-to-day, with an intuitive interface, fast scans, real-time vulnerability validation, and minimal false positives that let me focus on real issues rather than noise it’s what makes security actually usable during development rather than only at the end

What do you dislike about the product?

While Bright’s scans and reports are solid, I wish it had better built-in mapping of API endpoints and deeper support for single-page apps, and sometimes linking results into broader enterprise-wide tools feels a bit limited compared to some legacy platforms

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Bright Security solves the problem of finding critical web and API vulnerabilities early in the software development lifecycle so that security doesn’t become a bottleneck before release meaning our teams can ship safe features faster without having to do manual late-stage penetration tests.

What do you like best about the product?

Bright Security has been a game-changer for our development workflow. The biggest advantage is how seamlessly it integrates into CI/CD pipelines without slowing down deployments. The platform is intuitive, and the automated scanning is fast yet thorough. I also appreciate the developer-focused approach issues are explained clearly with actionable remediation steps, which makes fixing vulnerabilities much easier. Their customer support has been responsive and helpful whenever we needed guidance.

What do you dislike about the product?

While the overall experience is great, the initial setup took a bit longer than expected because of the learning curve around configuring custom scan profiles. Also, the reporting dashboard could use more flexibility in customizing views for different stakeholders.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before Bright Security, we struggled with manual security checks that delayed releases and often missed critical vulnerabilities. Bright Security solved this by automating the entire process and embedding security into our development lifecycle. Now, we catch issues early in the pipeline, reducing risk and saving countless hours. This has improved both our product security and team efficiency significantly.

What do you like best about the product?

The "Shift-Left" capability is genuine here, not just a marketing term. The support for modern architectures like GraphQL and REST APIs is excellent, and the customer success team is incredibly responsive—they’ve actually helped us build out our custom integrations rather than just sending us a link to a FAQ page.

What do you dislike about the product?

actually, pretty mucI’d love to see them expand their ecosystem more. Currently, they are top-tier for DAST (Dynamic Testing), but I wish they offered native SCA or SAST modules so I could manage my entire application security posture under one single vendor/contract rather than juggling multiple tools.h nothing which i do not like.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

t’s solving the problem of "Application Blind Spots." We used to worry about "Shadow APIs"—endpoints our developers created but never documented. Bright’s discovery engine finds these automatically. It has essentially reduced our manual penetration testing costs because we’re catching the low-hanging fruit and even complex business logic flaws automatically before the auditors even show up.

What do you like best about the product?

Near real-time vulnerability detection as well as automated security testing.

What do you dislike about the product?

Complexity in setting up the tool where the appsec team is lean it gets difficult to scale.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Real time scanning
2. Reduction of FP
3. Vulnerability detection.

What do you like best about the product?

Ease of use, Product efficiency, Support team on-ground

What do you dislike about the product?

As it is a DAST tool, sometimes the tool's necessity gets diluted because engineering team's consider it as a overhead.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are able to find out the vulnerabilities which really matter as Bright usually does not generate false positives.

What do you like best about the product?

Technical Support
Options for Authenticated Scan
Coverage

What do you dislike about the product?

Nothing specific but pointing out the overall market problem that DAST scans struggle with Authenticated scans running smoothly because of complex Auth flows like SSO, oAuth and of course the MFA conf options to be configured within any DAST tool

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Accomplishing mandatory requirements to have DAST coverage in our org.

What do you like best about the product?

It helps to improve API security and provides good vulnerability assessment

What do you dislike about the product?

hard for the dev team lo learn hot to use

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

API securety