What is a Source Code Review?
Source code review is a type of assessment designed to validate the security of an application by analyzing its source code. It is particularly effective at identifying insecure development practices and vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hackers, as it provides direct insight into how the application handles each given action. These reviews can be a cost-effective solution to identify business logic flaws in an application and is often combined with application security testing in order to secure mission critical applications.
Why Conduct a Source Code Review Of Your Application?
Validate your existing security controls
Understand the potential impact of an attack on your applications
Identify & fix of all existing vulnerabilities
Uncover and remediate security flaws in your code, minimizing the risk of breaches and improving overall application security.
Improve your application's security
Implement best practices and recommendations provided by the review to strengthen your security posture and enhance your application’s resilience to attacks.
Comply with regulatory requirements
Enhance your development practices
Gain a deeper understanding of development processes that might inadvertently introduce security risks, allowing you to develop more secure applications and features in the future.
Identify Application Vulnerabilities Efficiently
Identify insecure
development practices
Validate the security
of your application
Uncover application
logic flaws efficiently
Fix Vulnerabilities & Improve Your Application's Security
Insecure authentication
A risk where attackers can bypass or exploit weak authentication mechanisms, gaining unauthorized access to sensitive systems and data.
Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
A vulnerability that allows attackers to inject client-side scripts into web pages viewed by other users, potentially stealing sensitive data or compromising user accounts.
Insecure configuration
A risk where misconfigurations or default settings in your application can be exploited by attackers to gain unauthorized access or perform malicious actions.
Insecure data storage
A vulnerability where sensitive data is not properly encrypted or protected, allowing unauthorized access or disclosure.
Injection attacks
A threat where attackers can inject malicious code into your application, potentially leading to data loss, corruption, or unauthorized access.
Insecure direct object references
A vulnerability that occurs when an application exposes internal object references to users, allowing attackers to manipulate these references and access unauthorized resources.
Our Application Security Code Review Methodology
Threat Modeling
We Identify and document security risks associated with business logic.
Preliminary Scan
An extensive scan identifies technical and configuration vulnerabilities.
Security Code Review
Manual code assessment to identify insecure development practices.
When Should You Perform a
Review of Your Source Code?
- After major changes to the application's architecture or features
- When adding new, sensitive functionalities
- After significant updates to the development team or practices
- Following a security incident or breach
- Prior to an M&A transaction or other major business event
DID YOU KNOW?
“ 2 in 3 developers are not confident they are writing secure code ”
Need Help To Assess And Improve Your Cybersecurity?
Bridging the Security Gap: The Main Obstacles to Writing Secure Code
- Security tools require specialized expertise to use efficiently
- Firewalls are often misinterpreted as sufficient to block threats
- Quality assurance teams are often not involved at this level
- Most developers are not trained specifically to write secure code
- Top standards and best practices are often unknown to dev teams
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