Security that shipswith the code, not after it.
Most breaches don’t start with a zero-day — they start with a broken access control check, an unpatched dependency, or a misconfigured cloud bucket that shipped because no one was looking for it. We build application security into your SDLC so those gaps get caught in code review, not in an incident report.
Four layers of defense, working together.
Security testing that mirrors how software actually gets built.
Secure by default, not secure by exception.
The cheapest vulnerability to fix is the one that never ships. We work with engineering teams to move security decisions earlier, so fewer findings surface after the fact.
Threat modeling at design time
New features get a lightweight threat model before implementation, so authorization boundaries and trust assumptions are explicit from day one.
SAST & SCA in CI
Static analysis and dependency scanning run on every pull request, catching known vulnerability classes before they merge — not at the next quarterly audit.
Secrets & configuration hygiene
No credentials in source control, no default configurations in production — enforced through tooling, not a policy document no one reads.
Incident-ready logging
Authentication events, authorization failures, and administrative actions are logged in a form that actually supports investigation, not just uptime monitoring.
Structured against the risks that actually get exploited.
Every engagement is mapped to the OWASP Top 10 and extended to cover API-specific and infrastructure risks the standard list doesn’t fully capture.
Application layer
- Broken access control
- Injection (SQL, NoSQL, command)
- Authentication & session flaws
- Insecure design & business logic
Application layer
Where most exploited flaws start: broken access control, injection, authentication and session flaws, and insecure design and business logic.
API & integration layer
- Broken object & function-level authorization
- Excessive data exposure
- Server-side request forgery (SSRF)
- Rate limiting & resource exhaustion
API & integration layer
How your services talk to each other: object and function-level authorization, excessive data exposure, SSRF, and rate limiting.
Infrastructure & pipeline
- Security misconfiguration
- Vulnerable & outdated components
- CI/CD & build pipeline integrity
- Logging & monitoring gaps
Infrastructure & pipeline
What ships and runs the code: security misconfiguration, outdated components, CI/CD and build pipeline integrity, and logging and monitoring gaps.
The vulnerabilities that actually get exploited are rarely the exotic ones. They’re the access-control check that works for one role and not another, shipped by a team that never had a security engineer look at the design before it went out.
How an application security engagement runs.
Scoping & threat modeling
We map the application’s attack surface, trust boundaries, and highest-value assets before testing begins, so effort goes where the real risk is.
Automated & manual testing
SAST, DAST, and SCA scans run alongside manual code review and hands-on penetration testing against the live application and its APIs.
Verified findings & impact
Every finding is manually verified and rated by real exploitability and business impact — no unconfirmed scanner noise in the final report.
Remediation & re-test
We work directly with engineers to fix confirmed issues, then re-test to verify closure before the engagement is marked complete.
FAQ
Common questions on application security engagements.
A scan is automated and flags known vulnerability signatures — it’s fast and broad but generates false positives and misses business-logic flaws entirely. A penetration test adds a human who thinks like an attacker: chaining low-severity issues together, testing authorization boundaries a scanner can’t reason about, and confirming what’s actually exploitable. We use both — automation for coverage, manual testing for the findings that matter.
We strongly prefer a staging or dedicated test environment that mirrors production, to avoid any risk of disruption. Where production testing is required — for issues that only reproduce there — we scope it carefully with rate limits and a rollback plan agreed in advance.
Every automated finding is manually verified before it makes it into the report. If we can’t reproduce a real impact, it doesn’t get listed as a vulnerability — it gets noted separately as informational, if at all. You get a report you can act on, not one you have to triage yourself.
Yes. We commonly wire SAST and dependency scanning directly into your pull-request checks, so known vulnerability classes are caught before merge rather than in a periodic audit months later.
For most teams shipping regularly, we recommend a full assessment at major release milestones or at least annually, with continuous automated scanning in between. Applications handling sensitive data or operating in regulated industries often warrant more frequent manual review.
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