Security cannot scale at the same speed as technology evolves. While code review tools are invaluable, they cannot replace the value that comes from human-based comprehension of context. Only through a thorough, human-driven understanding can security teams fully grasp the nuances and potential risks in the code, ensuring a more accurate and effective security posture.
Some vulnerability classes are either extremely difficult to detect through dynamic testing or hard to accurately identify via static analysis, requiring a manual review of the code for validation.
Source code reviews demand expertise in not only recognizing common vulnerability patterns and exploitation techniques at the implementation level, but also in working with a variety of languages, frameworks, and coding paradigms. This deep level of understanding is essential to uncovering subtle vulnerabilities that automated tools might miss.
Manual inspection allows us to thoroughly evaluate your application’s handling of critical security issues, such as:
Each assessment is backed by detailed evidence and clear reproduction steps, providing you with the insights needed to make swift, informed decisions on how to address any critical issues identified within your application environment. This hands-on approach ensures a deeper understanding of your security posture and facilitates more effective remediation.
A thorough technical analysis of an application’s source code and its dependent components aims to identify insecure code segments and reused code that could introduce vulnerabilities. It also uncovers hidden functionality that an attacker might exploit to compromise the application and access sensitive data.
Given the dynamic functionality in modern applications, we typically conduct a hybrid application security assessment alongside our source code review. This dual approach enhances our ability to create targeted payloads for testing and allows us to verify if the vulnerabilities identified during the code review pose a real risk of exploitation in the live, running application.
