A scripted sign-in through an encrypted credential store yields session cookies and a bearer token, so the scanner works the application as a real signed-in user.
A scan that has not logged in is testing your marketing shell. Everything that carries business logic — the roles, the forms, the state transitions, the APIs — lives behind the sign-in form, and that is where findings worth acting on come from. Argus Pentest performs a deterministic scripted login using credentials held in the same encrypted store the QA engine uses, and passes the resulting session on to the scanner.
A scripted login collects session cookies and a bearer token before the scan begins.
Credentials resolve from an encrypted secret store, never from a scan config.
The scanner operates as a real signed-in user, not an anonymous visitor.
The same credential store already used by the regression engine.
A scanner that cannot authenticate reports an environment failure, not a finding.
In an encrypted secret store on your own infrastructure — the same one the QA engine resolves roles through. A target references a role, never a password.
No. Login is scripted and deterministic, so no model call is spent on a form that never changes.
The scan reports an environment failure rather than a security finding. A scanner that cannot get in has not proved anything about the application.
Endpoints found while logging in and crawling become the spec the scanner works from.
Scans run against an explicit allow-list — a target must be added deliberately.
The model generates payloads and triages results — text in, text out, never vision.
Credentials, scan traffic and reports all stay on your own infrastructure.
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