Technical Security
Application security
Code, dependencies, and design, reviewed against how the application actually gets built and shipped.
Who this is for
- Engineering teams shipping a customer-facing application without a dedicated security review step
- Companies whose SOC 2 or ISO 27001 scope includes secure development practices
- Teams that inherited a codebase and want an honest read on its security posture before it's under enterprise scrutiny
What this addresses
- The application has never had a focused security review outside of ad hoc code review comments
- Open-source dependencies are pulled in without a process for tracking known vulnerabilities in them
- A security questionnaire is asking about secure SDLC practices that don't formally exist yet
Our approach
Review covers the areas that matter most in practice: authentication and session handling, authorization logic, input handling, dependency exposure, and how secrets and sensitive data are managed.
Findings are prioritized by actual exploitability and business impact, not just severity scores pulled from a scanner.
Where useful, this feeds directly into SOC 2 or ISO 27001 evidence around secure development practices, rather than being a disconnected exercise.
Every engagement follows the same six-step methodology — see our approach.
What to expect
Depth and duration scale with the size of the codebase and how much of it is in scope — a focused review of a specific feature looks very different from a full application assessment.
Frequently asked
Is this the same as penetration testing?
Related but different — application security review looks at code, design, and dependencies (often with source access); penetration testing attacks the running application from the outside without necessarily seeing the code. Many engagements use both.
Do you require source code access?
It helps and is typical for a thorough review, but a black-box assessment of the running application is also possible if source access isn't an option.
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Have an application that needs a real look?
Tell us what it does and who it serves, and we'll scope a review that matches the actual risk.