Scan behind the login wall
Scan behind the login wall with Argus Pentest: a practical, on-prem approach built for Azerbaijani teams.
Authenticated Dynamic Security Scanning
Argus Pentest delivers authenticated dynamic security scanning specifically engineered for enterprise web applications and their associated APIs. Unlike traditional scanners that often stall at the login screen, this solution operates as a real logged-in user. By leveraging a scripted login process, the platform penetrates the authenticated surface of your application, ensuring that protected endpoints and internal logic are thoroughly assessed for vulnerabilities. As one of the three core engines of the Argus self-hosted AI testing platform, it operates in synergy with the QA and AI engines, sharing a unified runtime, model layer, credential store, and cost ledger. This integration allows the scanner to utilize synthesized API specifications derived from the login and crawl phase, ensuring that the security analysis reaches the deep layers of the application where the most critical business logic resides.
The Advantages of Authenticated Scanning
Deep Surface Access: Penetrates the 'login wall' to scan protected application surfaces and APIs that unauthenticated tools cannot reach.
Full Data Sovereignty: Operates as a self-hosted solution, ensuring all scan data, credentials, and reports remain on your own infrastructure without SaaS dependencies.
High-Fidelity Results: Reduces noise by treating authentication failures as environment issues rather than security findings, mirroring the honest-failure rule of the QA engine.
Strict Target Control: Maintains security integrity by running scans exclusively against an explicit allow-list of deliberately added approved targets.
Modular Flexibility: Utilizes the Deep Eye open-source engine via a CLI contract, allowing the scanning core to be upgraded or replaced without disrupting the platform.
Actionable Intelligence: Delivers findings categorized by severity through standardized HTML and JSON reports for streamlined remediation.
Core Technical Capabilities
Integrated Credential Store
Utilizes an encrypted credential store to perform scripted logins, yielding the session cookies and bearer tokens necessary for authenticated access.
Synthesized API Mapping
Endpoints discovered during the login and crawl process seed a synthesized API spec, allowing the scanner to reach deep authenticated layers.
AI-Driven Payload Generation
Leverages a text-based model specifically for payload generation and finding triage to identify vulnerabilities.
Modular Scanner Engine
Driven by the Deep Eye open-source engine via CLI contract, allowing the scanning core to be upgraded or replaced without affecting the platform.
Detailed Reporting
Security findings are categorized by severity and delivered via comprehensive HTML and JSON reports.
The Scanning Workflow
Frequently Asked Questions
Where is the scan data and credential information stored?
Argus is entirely self-hosted. This means all scan data, encrypted credentials, and final reports stay on your own infrastructure, eliminating any external SaaS dependency.
How does the platform handle authentication failures during a scan?
The system applies an 'honest-failure' rule: if a scanner cannot authenticate, it is flagged as an environment failure rather than a security finding, preventing false positives in your security reports.
Does the AI model use vision or image processing for scanning?
No. The AI model is used strictly for text-in, text-out operations, specifically for generating payloads and triaging findings.
Can I track the specific cost associated with each individual scan?
Currently, per-scan cost accounting is not yet implemented. While the engine shares a cost ledger with the platform, it cannot yet provide a specific cost-per-test metric.
How are targets managed to prevent unauthorized scanning?
The scanner operates strictly against an explicit allow-list. A target must be deliberately added to this list before it can be scanned, ensuring no accidental targets are hit.
Secure Your Authenticated Endpoints
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