Applications & APIs

Application assurance services provide advice in an adequate way to application assurance and security testing. It also gives full support in the development of any critical applications.

The software applications are not secure in an organization as their complexity, coupled with inevitable business pressure during development are overlooked.

As market can be critical for the application development, organizations take care of ensuring business-functional requirements which are delivered by the development teams.

In this environment, it became very easy in overlooking the critical flaws in design, code implementation, or underlying vulnerabilities in the commercial components which are an essential part of the application or the environment.

Attackers are also aware of the potential weakness in applications and its level attacks, misuse of application in systems. They bypass the traditional defenses which result extremely difficult to detect.

There is a delicate balance to be struck between functional requirements, business needs, and security risk.

These services provide comprehensive application security assurance services which include design assurance consultancy throughout the development life cycle, development audit, critical phase review, code review, and specialist security application testing etc.

Benefits

  • A concentrated pool of security-focused resource to advise on best practice security implementation
  • Objective, independent, current security knowledge of a wide range of commercial software and applications
  • Comprehensive testing of bespoke applications by drawing on concentrated security knowledge to devise tailored threat scenarios; thinking like an attacker is different to thinking like a user
  • Advice on best practice measures and corrective action required to improve security deployment and integrity
  • Independent expert assurance that applications and processes can resist a range of attacks
  • Confidence that the system will not make headlines as a hacker's, criminal's or terrorist's latest victim

These services can make recommendations for hardened configuration for system components which enables the required functionality by disabling the unneeded features that help in improving integrity and resistance to attack.