Application Security
Web, desktop and cloud application have their own specific security challenges. Let's dig into them!
Applications are where the actual business activities take place, processing and storing critical data. This makes them prime targets for attackers who exploit vulnerabilities in authentication, business logic, APIs, and custom code.
Most applications have local and remote components. A comprehensive security test needs to uncover any possible vulnerability in all the parts involved in the application deployment, from the business logic to the hosting solution in use. Our tests always include:
API Security
Identify vulnerabilities in front-end and back-end APIs, ensuring secure data exchange and robust endpoint protection.
Authentication & Access Control
Assess session management, sign-in flows, and privilege escalation risks to prevent unauthorized access.
Business Logic Flaws
Detect logical vulnerabilities that could allow manipulation of workflows or exploitation of application features.
On-Device Protection
Evaluate security controls on mobile, cloud, and server-side components to safeguard sensitive data wherever it resides.
Technology Stack Usage
Review use of frameworks and libraries to ensure security features are properly implemented and pitfalls are avoided.
Industry-Specific Threats
Address unique risks relevant to your business area, as identified during the scoping and planning phase.
Targeted Assessment Options
From a technical point of view, this website could talk only about application and infrastructure security since, in one way or another, pretty much every technological project can be put under one of those two umbrellas. But you are not here to read high level academic discussions, let’s delve into what our offering has for you!
Arctic Owl can help you with design reviewing and security testing of:
- Full stack of web applications, including frontend, backend and any integration with external infrastructure for data or authentication purposes.
- Local and network-level security of desktop applications, regardless of development language or operating system.
- Mobile Android and iOS applications, device-specific security issues, along with any backend services in use.
- Serverless applications in the cloud other hypervisor technology.
- Mainframe applications running on CICS, IMS, Web, ISPF, and their integration with systems in the distributed world.
- Deployments where code and infrastructure blend. We have extensive experience in attacking, defending and supporting design of DevOps and SecDevOps infrastructure as code, managed by Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) setups based on Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Ansible and other technologies like OpenShift or OpenStack.
Why Choose Our Application Security services?
- We go beyond OWASP’s top 10: but still cover the baseline guides, commonly occurring bugs, dig into misconfigurations, feature abuse, logic flaws, exposed APIs, and authentication weaknesses. Whenever we find or learn something new, we reuse the knowledge to dig deeper to uncover hidden risks in an iterative fashion.
- Actionable & Contextual Insights: our reports are not just lists of issues. We provide risk-prioritized findings, clear remediation steps, and guidance on security hardening.
- Expert-led engagements: our team has years of hands-on experience testing desktop, web, cloud-native, mainframe and other enterprise-scale applications, ensuring coverage of even the most complex architectures.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our process begins with an initial consultation to understand your specific requirements and environment. We then conduct a thorough assessment, throughout the engagement, we provide regular updates and insights to keep you informed of progress and findings. After the project is finished, we deliver a detailed report with all findings and actionable recommendations to help you improve your security posture.
The timeline of each assignment varies based on the complexity of your environment and the scope of the engagement. For typical smaller or mid size projects, you can expect a timeline from start to finish of 2-4 weeks. More complex environments or technologies may require additional time. During our initial consultation, we'll provide a more specific timelines based on your requirements and budget.
We design our services to minimize disruption to your business operations. We always try to work closely with your staff to know if we disrupt anything and to be smart about what features we avoid testing in production to further reduce any potential impact. For most services, your users and staff will experience no disruption during the testing process.
How do you get started?
Our proven methodology ensures a smooth journey all the way from deciding what to test, deciding how to test it to having the final report and remidations in place.
Initial Consultation
Discuss your security objectives, compliance needs, and what you want to achieve.
Scoping & Agreement
We scope the project and provide an offering with test scope, schedule, and rules of engagement.
Decision Time
We refine the scope together until it perfectly matches your requirements and objectives.
Test Execution
We carry out the agreed security assessments, keeping you informed throughout the process.
Reporting & Review
We deliver a comprehensive report and conduct a debriefing to present findings and discuss remediation strategies with your stakeholders.
Retesting & Validation
You fix the identified vulnerabilities. We optionally come back to validate the effectiveness of your remediation efforts.
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