California Polytechnic State University - Burp Suite DAST Case Study - Port Swigger
Summary: California Polytechnic State University, a 1901-founded school serving over 21,000 students across six colleges, purchased Burp Suite DAST to automate security scanning for its AppSec team. According to its CISO, the automation lets the team deliver more security where it's needed, with benefits including catching critical vulnerabilities across its web portfolio, saving costs from prior scanners, and scanning more frequently for faster feedback to engineers.
Bottom line: The stated payoff is coverage and cadence: scanning more often across the whole web portfolio and catching critical bugs before code ships, which is the difference between an AppSec team that reviews occasionally and one that sees every release.
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