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Sanjana Iyer

Sanjana is a Growth Marketer at Escape, with a background in marketing in finance and a growing focus on API and application security. She constantly contributes research and insights into the current landscape of AppSec tools and trends.

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Sanjana Iyer — Last Publications

php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 + CVE-2026-109619): unauthenticated RCE in PHP core, now detected by Escape

php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 + CVE-2026-109619): unauthenticated RCE in PHP core, now detected by Escape

php2shell is a pair of critical memory-safety vulnerabilities in the PHP engine itself, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Escape detects affected PHP versions across your attack surface and shows you every exposed asset that needs the patch. php2shell is not a WordPress bug, a Drupal bug, or a bug in your code. It is in PHP itself. Both CVEs trace back to the same weakness: when a fatal error, usually out of memory, interrupts a request, PHP destroys the request heap but leaves so

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Launching AI Red Teaming: pentest your AI agents and MCP servers all alongside your app

Launching AI Red Teaming: pentest your AI agents and MCP servers all alongside your app

Developers are standing up AI agents and MCP servers faster than security can test all the data flows they introduce, and often faster than anyone can agree on the guardrails. Layer on the APIs behind them and you have a whole new attack plane. The use of AI systems in applications has exploded across the board, and in high-stakes environments, from finance to healthcare and everything in between.  Yet the APIs behind the MCP server see broken authorization or too much trust in their caller, a

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Escape's Channel Partners: ConRes, Myriad360, EverSec, Technium, and more

Announcement

Introducing Escape's Channel Partners

After announcing our channel partner program last month, we are excited to now be working with eleven incredible partners, with more soon to join us! Escape's Channel Partner Program is built on a simple principle: a two-way relationship centered on the shared goal of helping security teams do more with the people they have. Our channel partners all play an imperative role in ensuring that these security teams can slot Escape into their security stack and existing workflows to build a continuo

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Top continuous penetration testing tools with expert review

AI pentesting

7 best continuous penetration testing tools in 2026

Continuous penetration testing tools close the gap in coverage left by annual pentests. This guide breaks down the best options, what each tool actually does, and how to choose.

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How DAST helps meet Cyber Resilience Act compliance requirements

Compliance

Why DAST Is Critical for Cyber Resilience Act Compliance

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act is reshaping how companies build and secure digital products. Learn why modern DAST is critical for CRA compliance from secure development to incident response and how to prepare before the 2027 deadline.

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How Escape Enabled Deeper Business Logic Testing for Arkose Labs

Case Study

How Escape Enabled Deeper Business Logic Testing for Arkose Labs

Arkose Labs is a global cybersecurity company that specializes in account security, including bot management, device ID, anti-phishing and email intelligence. Its unified platform helps the world’s biggest enterprises across industries, including banking, gaming, e-commerce and social media, protect user accounts and digital ecosystems from malicious automation, credential stuffing and other types of online scams and abuse while ensuring legitimate consumers have a safe and seamless experience.

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Spring 2025 Events Spotlight

Announcement

Spring 2025 Events Spotlight

Discover all of the exciting events you can find us at this March and April!

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Webinar recap: How to combine SAST and DAST for complete application coverage

Webinar recap

Webinar recap: How to combine SAST and DAST for complete application coverage

Modern applications come with a whole host of challenges that legacy SASTs and DASTs simply cannot keep up with. If you want to be sure no vulnerabilities slip through the cracks in these applications, the key is combining a modern SAST and DAST. Why? Last week, Escape’s CEO Tristan Kalos brought the DAST, and Amit Bismut, Head of Product at Backslash Security, brought the SAST, as they joined forces to explore exactly that, in a webinar titled “The Future of AppSec: SAST + DAST combined for c

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The Elephant in AppSec Conference: 4 Key Takeaways

The Elephant in AppSec

The Elephant in AppSec Conference: 4 Key Takeaways

Here are the key takeaways from the Elephant in AppSec Conference, uncovering the top insights from industry experts in application security.

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