Application Security

100% Veteran-Owned

A hardened network won't save broken code.

Application security is its own discipline: securing the software you write and ship. Secure SDLC, real code review, API and web app testing, and security for the AI features you're putting in front of customers.

  • CISSP & CEH led
  • Manual, not just scans
  • Free retest

Where application security sits

It's the half of security that most SMB providers skip, because it needs someone who can read the code.

01

Cybersecurity protects the environment

Networks, endpoints, identity, monitoring, and response. That's our cybersecurity practice, and it's necessary.

02

Application security protects the code

A perfect firewall doesn't help when a valid user can read another customer's records through your own API. Different problem, different work.

03

We do both, and we build software

We ship applications ourselves, so findings come with a fix a developer can actually use, not a scanner reference link.

What's covered

Scoped to what you need. Most engagements combine two or three of these.

Service 01

Web application penetration testing

Hands-on testing of your application the way an attacker would approach it, including the business-logic flaws no scanner will ever find.

  • OWASP Top 10 coverage: injection, broken access control, misconfiguration, and the rest
  • Authentication and session handling: bypass, fixation, token and password reset flaws
  • Authorization testing between roles and between tenants, including IDOR
  • Business-logic abuse: pricing, ordering, workflow skipping, and race conditions
  • Reproducible findings with evidence, rated by real risk to your business

Service 02

API security testing

APIs carry the data and often get a fraction of the scrutiny the UI gets. Tested directly, against the OWASP API Security Top 10.

  • Broken object-level and function-level authorization, the most common real-world API flaw
  • Broken authentication, token handling, and key management
  • Mass assignment and excessive data exposure in responses
  • Rate limiting, resource consumption, and abuse resistance
  • REST and GraphQL, including introspection and query-depth abuse

Service 03

Secure code review

An engineer reads the code. Automated analysis runs alongside for coverage, but the review is human, because the expensive flaws are design flaws.

  • Authentication and authorization logic, where most critical findings live
  • Injection paths, unsafe deserialization, and input handling
  • Secrets in code, config, and history
  • Cryptography use: algorithms, key handling, and randomness
  • SAST tuned to your stack so the results are signal, not a 4,000-line backlog

Service 04

Secure SDLC and pipeline integration

Testing once tells you where you stand today. Building security into the pipeline is what keeps it from drifting back.

  • Threat modeling and secure design review before the code gets written
  • SAST, DAST, dependency, and secret scanning wired into CI/CD
  • Rules tuned and gates enforced, so the build fails on what matters and only that
  • Developer guidance and secure coding standards your team will actually follow
  • Remediation tracking through to closure

Service 05

Mobile apps, dependencies, and supply chain

The code you didn't write is still code you ship. Mobile clients and third-party dependencies get the same treatment.

  • iOS and Android testing: insecure storage, weak transport, hardcoded secrets
  • Mobile backend and API exposure, which is usually where the real risk sits
  • Software composition analysis and SBOM generation
  • Vulnerable, abandoned, and typosquatted dependency review
  • Build-pipeline integrity and artifact signing

Service 06

AI and LLM application security

If you've shipped AI features, you've added an attack surface most teams have never tested. We test it against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications.

  • Prompt injection, direct and indirect, including through documents and retrieved content
  • Data leakage: what the model can reach, and what it will reveal when asked well
  • Over-scoped tool and plugin access, the AI equivalent of excessive privilege
  • Tenant isolation and access control for AI features
  • Model and supply-chain risk, including third-party model and plugin providers

Pairs with our AI services, where the same guardrails get designed in from the start.

What you get

A deliverable your developers can act on and your auditor will accept.

Findings rated by real risk

Prioritized by actual impact to your business, not raw scanner severity. You'll know what to fix first and what can wait.

Reproduction and a real fix

Every finding includes steps to reproduce, evidence, and a specific remediation for your stack, plus a working session with your developers.

Free retest

We retest the fixes and issue an updated report, so you can prove closure to a customer, an auditor, or your board.

  • Supports
  • SOC 2
  • HIPAA
  • ISO 27001
  • PCI DSS
  • NIST CSF / 800-171

Who's doing the testing

Certified, veteran-owned, and built on real SOC and MSSP delivery.

Common questions about application security

Straight answers before we ever talk.

How is application security different from cybersecurity?

Cybersecurity broadly protects the environment: networks, endpoints, identity, and monitoring. Application security protects the software itself, the code you write and ship. A hardened network doesn't save you from a broken authorization check in your own API. We do both, and keep them as separate services because they need different work and different skills.

Do you do manual testing or just run a scanner?

Both, and the manual work is the point. Scanners find known patterns. They don't find broken business logic, authorization flaws between two valid users, or an ordering issue in a checkout flow. Every engagement includes hands-on testing by an engineer, with automated tooling used for coverage rather than as the deliverable.

What do we get at the end of an engagement?

A report with each finding rated by real risk to your business, reproduction steps, evidence, and a specific fix rather than a generic reference. Plus a working session with your developers, and free retesting of the fixes so you can prove closure to a customer or auditor.

Can you test AI and LLM features in our application?

Yes. AI features get tested for direct and indirect prompt injection, data leakage through the model, over-scoped tool and plugin access, tenant isolation, and model supply-chain risk, reviewed against the OWASP Top 10 for LLM applications. See AI services for the build side.

Will this help with our SOC 2 or PCI audit?

Yes. Application security testing and secure development practices are evidence requirements in SOC 2, PCI DSS, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and NIST 800-171. We write findings and retest results so they stand up as audit evidence, and we can pair this with our compliance-readiness advisory.

Find it before someone else does.

Tell us what you've built. We'll scope an assessment that fits it.

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