Application Security Assessments

These assessments meticulously examine an application's attack surface, identifying security concerns and vulnerabilities in alignment with established industry standards such as, PCI-DSS, ISO/IEC 27001, NIST and OWASP. Employing a variety of analytical techniques and adhering to a rigorous, methodical approach, we document our discoveries and provide prioritized recommendations to enhance your application's security infrastructure, accompanied by a comprehensive plan for implementation.

Using a range of analysis techniques we apply the following core strategies in performing the analysis:

• Attack-Surface Discovery: The initial step in fortifying your application against threats is a thorough enumeration of the attack surface. This critical process involves identifying all the areas where your application is susceptible to attacks, including all exposed points, services, inputs, and code paths that interact with external systems.

• Fault Injection: Fault injection is a testing technique used to assess the robustness and error handling capabilities of an application by deliberately introducing faults or errors into the system. This method helps identify security vulnerabilities that could be exploited during unexpected or adverse scenarios. The primary goal of fault injection is to ensure that an application can gracefully handle system failures without compromising security or functionality. It tests the system's ability to recover from failures and also validates the effectiveness of its security safeguards under stress conditions.

• Targeted Code Review: When source code is available, it is an invaluable resource in efficiently identifying security flaws within the source code. This process involves an examination of the code to detect issues that could potentially lead to security breaches.

• Exploitation: Vulnerability exploitation is a critical phase of application security assessments. It is designed to evaluate the resilience of applications by simulating attacks and actualizing vulnerability under controlled conditions. This process helps to confirm exploitablity and assess the severity of vulnerabilities. Not all vulnerabilities are exploitable. This testing confirms whether identified vulnerabilities can be exploited in real-world scenarios. Understanding the real-world consequences of an exploit, helping prioritize the vulnerabilities based on the potential damage or data loss they could cause.

• Data Correlation: The assessment data correlation process involves researching vulnerabilities to understand their impact, filtering out false positives to focus on real threats, and comprehensively investigating the scope of the findings. This approach ensures that remediation efforts are prioritized and resources are efficiently allocated to address the most critical vulnerabilities, thereby streamlining the enhancement of security measures.