Unlike others vendors that rely on scanning for broad coverage, our software security experts focus on quality coverage by calibrating the breadth (automation) and depth (experts) of testing to software risk/complexity.

Leveraging our Platform Centers of Excellence, our software security assessments range from a deep, manually intensive test to a more technology driven inspection with expert tool operation and vulnerability verification.

Benefits include:

• Accurate results and zero false positive guarantee – We augment scanners with internally developed tools and techniques to hunt down vulnerabilities that evade automation, validating each one. Our tools independency ensures the right tool every time.
• Superior Vulnerability Remediation IQ – Platform-and language-specific guidance ensures problems are fixed correctly. Portal provides access to our courses, experts and secure coding knowledgebase to avoid security regressions.
• Any application type – Mobile, Web, cloud, IoT, Desktop, etc. We test them all at any breadth, depth or frequency.

A software security penetration test helps you answer the simple question: “What could a hacker do to harm my application, or organization, out in the real world?” Our engineers leverage their software development backgrounds to view software applications through the eyes of both a developer and attacker to help you solve this question. This multi-lens approach helps identify systemic issues and provide the code-level remediation guidance developers need to fix problems correctly. Because it’s not feasible to get 100% test coverage, we take an objective-based approach that leverages specialized tools, proven methodologies and well-trained engineers to stack the deck in our favor. The result is accurate findings, zero false positives, and better visibility into vulnerabilities.

Our Software Penetration Testing Approach

We’ve refined our threat modeling and test execution methodologies for over a decade, ensuring that our efforts focus on high-risk areas and are conducted with efficiency and precision.

• Explore: Using the threat modeling techniques we co-created (STRIDE and DREAD,) our engineers identify high-risk risk areas and determine the impact should they be penetrated. The threat model drives a test plan that focuses on hot spot areas and our engineers carefully determine which tools are most appropriate for the engagement.
• Exploit: We leverage automation for broad scale coverage and specialized tools for targeted testing. We’ll execute well-known attacks and proprietary ones designed to uncover elusive, compound, and business logic vulnerabilities.
• Educate: After testing is complete, the lead engineer will deliver a final report, and optional live presentation, that includes:
  • The threat model.
  • Summary of tests conducted.
  • All vulnerabilities found with reproduction steps, organization-calibrated severity ratings, and detailed remediation recommendations for each area.

A software security code review identifies and remediates coding errors before they turn into a security risk. If conducted properly, it can do more to secure your software applications than nearly any other activity. Tools can identify possible issues in large amounts of code, but only an expert reviewer who understands code logic can determine if a flaw is exploitable and what the likelihood and impact of an attack would be.

Leverage our Experts for Your Secure Code Review

Our software security engineers leverage their coding backgrounds to employ a combination of smart automation and “eyes on” manual inspection to uncover the highest number of coding errors possible. Unique in the industry, all identified vulnerabilities are linked to our training knowledgebase providing detailed platform- and language-specific remediation guidance.

Our security experts take a four-step approach when conducting a software security code review:

• Identifying Security Code Review Objectives. The first step is to conduct a threat model to better understand your application’s architecture. These objectives take the form of a set of vulnerability risks that we’ll pay special attention to during our review efforts.
• Performing the Preliminary Scan. After identifying objectives, we review hot spots (areas likely to contain more vulnerabilities than others) in the code using static analysis and manual efforts.
• Conducting the Primary Code Review. During this phase, our engineers leverage a formal checklist to identify common security issues (i.e. SQL injection, XSS, buffer overflows, etc) as well as issues prevalent to your application type.
• Performing the Final Review. The final review cycle investigates issues that are unique to your application’s architecture. These are generally expressed as threats in the threat model or security-specific features such as custom authentication or authorization routines.