Product and Application Security

For software companies, the product is the attack surface. We assess and strengthen SaaS products and business-critical in-house applications across the full lifecycle: how they are designed, built, tested, and operated, and how attackers abuse them once they are live.

That includes the credential stuffing, account takeover, bot, and fraud attacks that exploit applications as designed rather than as defective, and the denial of service attacks that take them offline. The result is a single prioritized view of product risk, structured so your engineering organization can act on it directly.

Services in this practice

• Product Security Assessment. A comprehensive security assessment of your SaaS product or in-house application, from development practice and architecture to fraud and resilience.

• Secure Development Lifecycle Assessment. Measure development practice against OWASP SAMM and embed security into the engineering workflow rather than bolting it on at release.

• Application Architecture Review and Threat Modeling. Structured review of application architecture, trust boundaries, and data flows, with formal threat models and a repeatable practice for your teams.

• Secure Code Review. Expert review of source code where scanners fall short: authorization logic, authentication flows, cryptography, business logic, and untrusted input.

• Application Security Testing Program. Design and tune SAST, DAST, IAST, and SCA in your pipeline, with triage workflows and remediation service levels engineering teams can sustain.

• Software Supply Chain Security. Assess dependency and build pipeline risk: open source components, SBOM, artifact signing and provenance, and CI/CD pipeline security.

• Identity, Authentication, and Authorization Review. Review MFA, sessions, SSO, tokens, account recovery, and object-level authorization, where the most exploited application weaknesses are found.

• Abuse and Fraud Risk Assessment. Assess account takeover, bot abuse, card testing, refund, promotion, and trial abuse, with an abuse case catalog mapped to preventive and detective controls.

• Credential Attack Defense Program. Stop credential stuffing and account takeover with layered defenses: breached password screening, adaptive login, bot mitigation, and recovery hardening.

• Availability and Denial of Service Resilience. Assess resistance to volumetric and application-layer DDoS across edge, CDN, WAF, rate limiting, autoscaling, and your contractual recovery objectives.

• Multi-Tenant Isolation and Application Data Protection. Verify tenant separation, encryption and key management, data residency, logging hygiene, and retention as actually implemented in your application.

• API Security Assessment. Inventory and test your API surface, including undocumented endpoints, authorization enforcement, rate limits, data exposure, and partner integrations.

• Cloud and Infrastructure Security Assessment. Assess AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and supporting infrastructure against CIS Benchmarks: IAM, network, workloads, IaC, secrets, logging, and drift.

• Penetration Testing. Network, web, mobile, API, cloud, wireless, and social engineering penetration testing, scoped to your risk profile and certification evidence needs.

• Vulnerability Assessment and Management Program. Assess your vulnerability position and build a program with risk-based prioritization, remediation service levels, exception governance, and metrics.

• Adversary Simulation and Red Team. Objective-based adversary simulation that tests detection and response rather than control inventory, with optional purple team collaboration.

• Responsible Disclosure and Bug Bounty Program Design. Establish a responsible disclosure or bug bounty program with policy, safe harbor, scope, triage workflow, reward criteria, and remediation handoff.

• Developer Security Training and Security Champions. Secure coding training built on the vulnerabilities in your own codebase, plus a security champions program that spreads capability across engineering.

• Financial Crime and Transaction Risk Assessment. For fintech and financial services: assess AML, KYC, sanctions screening, transaction monitoring, and fraud detection as working technical controls.

How engagements work

Every engagement is scoped individually and conducted under a master services agreement and mutual confidentiality terms. Work begins with a scoping conversation to understand your objectives, constraints, and deadlines, followed by a written statement of work defining scope, deliverables, and timeline. Both parties retain the right to decline an engagement where the fit is not right.

Frequently asked questions

What is credential stuffing?

Credential stuffing is an automated attack in which criminals test large volumes of usernames and passwords stolen in other breaches against your login page, exploiting password reuse to take over accounts. Effective defense layers breached password screening, multifactor and risk-based authentication, bot detection, rate limiting, and monitoring for account takeover.

How is a product security assessment different from a penetration test?

A penetration test examines the running application for exploitable weaknesses at a point in time. A product security assessment also examines how the product is designed and built, including architecture, threat models, development practice, identity and authorization design, abuse and fraud risk, and resilience, so the causes of vulnerabilities are addressed rather than only their symptoms.

Do you assess applications that are not SaaS?

Yes. We assess in-house and customer-facing applications of every kind, including web and mobile applications, APIs, and internal business systems, wherever the organization depends on them.