From reviewing every line of code to preparing your revenue generating websites for secure launch, our application penetration testing service covers a breadth of skill-set and experience.
Database Management Systems are typically designed to store large quantities of sensitive information that is critical to business operations. Unauthorised access to, or tampering of this data could result in a significant negative impact on normal operations.
Threat modelling is the proactive process of identifying potential risks and threats to your product. This approach allows you to create tests and countermeasures in order to respond to these potential threats. Threat modeling for cybersecurity is a rapidly evolving discipline and should be part of your development cycle
Thick or compiled applications are popular in an enterprise for their internal operations. Legacy thick client applications could have inherent problems waiting to be discovered or rather exploited
Secure Code review is the process of manually reviewing the source code that would highlight issues missed during a black box pentest. This review helps to detect the inconsistencies overlooked during all other security assessments.
A secure web application forms the basis of any business trading on the Internet. Without security in mind, applications are a treat for online fraudsters to target genuine unsuspecting users.
With the increased threat of cyber attacks it is vital to manage the security of your web applications and their underlying systems in depth so that vulnerabilities are detected as early as possible. High-profile data breaches have made application security a boardroom issue and our customers are extra cautious about the applications that they bring into their IT environments. It is significantly less costly to remove a vulnerability before a service goes live than after it has been launched.
Stop cybersecurity incidents turning into financial or reputational loss. Our Security Assurance services address the growing number and intensity of cyber threats in today’s digital era. We follow an application security testing methodology which is closely aligned with CREST's requirement as well as OWASP10-2017.
Defendza as a business, as well as its consultants, are equipped with some of the best-known certifications, accreditations and qualifications globally. These include CREST, GCloud 11 Framework, ISO quality management certifications for the business and our consultants are Ex Check Team Leaders/CCT Infrastructure (2012, 2015) and Web Applications (2009,2012,2015), OSCP (Offensive Security Certified Professional), CREA (Certified Reverse Engineering Analyst), CREA (Certified Binary Auditing Expert), CISSP (Certified Information Security Systems Professional), SANS GSEC & GCIH Silver (Hacker Techniques and Incident Handling), CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate), CEH (Certified Ethical Hacker).
Conducting regular penetration assessment offers the following benefits:
Defendza Ltd is an accredited CREST penetration testing service provider. This ensures we adhere to high technical standards and code of conduct in place by CREST. Our holistic approach to application security is from our years of experience delivering engagements for clients in several sectors.
We believe that security should be embedded from the beginning of the life cycle. There is no shortcut approach or plugging security towards the end of the development process to achieve a secure product. We review the technical specification documents of the application before it goes into development. Our team would threat model the design to evaluate the threats during the data flow before the developers take over. We ensure secure coding practices are in use by the developers to lower the vulnerabilities caused due to the use of insecure libraries or modules.
All our application related services are designed at various stages of the product /application development discussed above.
Applications, be it web, mobile, thick/thin, compiled, are a necessary part of doing business in a world where everything is connected to the internet. Insecure applications with inadequate security can result in attacks, and worst-case scenario – data breaches. Web application attacks are lucrative targets for online threat actors who are constantly looking for new ways to compromise business data and personal data.
Security is a key element that should be considered throughout the application development lifecycle, especially when it is designed to deal with critical business data and resources. Web application security testing ensures that the information system is capable of protecting the data and maintaining its functionality. The process encompasses analysing the application for its technical flaws, weaknesses and vulnerabilities, right from the design and development phase.
We base our application security assessment offerings on an extensive methodology that we have developed after years of experience working across several sectors. A cybersecurity consultancy must follow an approach that delivers expected returns on your investment. At a high level, our approach to application security assessments is:
When you decide to give us the go-ahead, our very first step is to gain insight into your motivation, so that we can advise on your real concerns. The comprehensive process we go through to understand this determines the vision for the project. At the technical level, this includes assets to be included, their fragility and importance to the environment.
Based on the response received from the reconnaissance phase, the target list is prioritised. The priority would be based on "low-hanging" fruit that could aid in gaining a foothold within the network trivially.
This phase helps to
This is an important step towards gathering as much information as possible about the target application. This includes passively fingerprinting the CMS and obtaining data cached in Google about the technologies /web pages in use. Any data obtained during this phase helps plan the entire pentest properly
Web server hosting of the application is also considered a vital component during this testing. A weakness in supporting infrastructure including the configuration of the webserver could lead to a slight compromise of the application hosted on it.
Our consultants would focus on the top 10 categories of attacks defined by the industry-standard OWASP. This includes:
The business logic for the entire application must be reviewed. This is only possible after gaining an understanding of how the application behaves for different privilege levels. From the threat-modelling phase and the knowledge gained, our consultants will be in the position to exploit business logic level vulnerabilities that are often overlooked by the developers
The assessment-execution phase is followed by the analysis & reporting. Defendza performs analysis on the testing output, evaluates the risk impact and likelihood of exploitation in realistic scenarios before providing action plans to remediate the identified risks. All our reports address business as well as the technical audience with supporting raw data, including mitigation measures at strategic and tactical levels.
