While utilizing automated scans and AI-driven modeling are essential, they produce many false positives. Our expert security analysts don't, by combining advanced tooling with meticulous manual source code review to deliver accurate, actionable findings that matter allowing your development team to focus on exploitable vulnerabilities.
> Our Testing Methodology
Code Architecture and Data Flow Analysis:
Our process involves mapping the application's structure, identifying entry points, authentication mechanisms, data flows, and trust boundaries. This phase establishes a comprehensive understanding of how the application processes user input, handles sensitive data, and enforces security controls throughout the codebase.
Static Analysis and Vulnerability Discovery:
Our team employs industry-leading static application security testing (SAST) tools to systematically scan the entire codebase for security vulnerabilities, dangerous functions, and coding anti-patterns. We prioritize findings based on exploitability, data sensitivity, and the OWASP Top 10 and other relevant security frameworks, while filtering out false positives through expert analysis.
Manual Code Review and Logic Flaw Identification:
We conduct deep manual inspection of critical code paths, focusing on authentication, authorization, input validation, cryptographic implementations, and session management. This phase uncovers business logic flaws, race conditions, and context-specific vulnerabilities that automated tools cannot detect, including subtle flaws in custom security implementations.
Input Validation and Injection Vulnerability Analysis:
We comprehensively examine all user input handling mechanisms, including web forms, API endpoints, file uploads, and indirect inputs. Our review identifies SQL injection, command injection, XSS, XXE, template injection, and other injection vulnerabilities by tracing untrusted data from entry points through to dangerous sinks without proper sanitization.
Authentication, Authorization, and Session Management:
We evaluate the security of identity and access control mechanisms, including password policies, multi-factor authentication implementation, JWT handling, OAuth flows, and session token generation. This assessment reveals whether privilege escalation, broken authentication, or session hijacking vulnerabilities exist in the authorization model.
Cryptography and Sensitive Data Protection Assessment:
We analyze all cryptographic operations, key management practices, and sensitive data handling throughout the application lifecycle. Our review identifies weak algorithms, hardcoded secrets, improper certificate validation, insecure random number generation, and inadequate protection of personally identifiable information (PII) and payment data.
Third-Party Dependencies and Supply Chain Analysis:
We examine all external libraries, frameworks, packages, and APIs integrated into the application for known vulnerabilities, malicious code, and licensing issues. Our assessment includes dependency version analysis, transitive dependency risks, and evaluation of whether security patches and updates are being properly maintained across the software supply chain.
