What is an application source code review?
An application source code review or Source code security analysis (source code review) is the examination of an application source code to find errors overlooked in the initial development phase. Seasoned developers with security in mind inspect your code line-by-line looking for security holes hackers can take advantage of. Once the analyzer finds vulnerabilities, the pentester manually checks them to eliminate false positives.
Why is an application source code review important?
Simply put, if you develop code and you are selling or hosting it to be used, hackers will get to it and try to exploit it.
Our security engineers, versed in multiple programming languages and with an eye on security, will provide the ability to identify certain vulnerabilities, for example:
- Encryption errors. These include weak encryption algorithms, as well as strong encryption algorithms with weak implementation
- All cases of SQL injections, XSS (cross-site scripting) vulnerabilities.
- Buffer overflows (more data is put into the buffer than it can handle).
- Race conditions (performing two or more operations at the same time).
Moreover, if penetration testing allows spotting a vulnerable web page, application source code reviews enable pentesters to find vulnerabilities at the root level (to detect errors in a function or a module used in several web pages). This will save you money as the owner of the application/code.
Our team of senior developers across multiple coding languages will go through a thorough review of your entire codebase with security in mind. This process might be time-consuming, but it identifies flaws, such as business logic problems, that automated tools may miss. The end result: a reduction in the number of bugs and security vulnerabilities going into your production environment. Check out our press releases for more information and contact us so that we can offer our help.
Our work has been proved to companies of all sizes, we are proud that our services has been shared in press releases and was a direct reason for certain increase in sales of products that have gone through our thorough examination of application source code reviews for some of our customers.
Whatever the state of your code, fully developed or not, our engineers can engage at any stage of the software development life cycle and produce guidance and help as you merge branches into your code so that you can save time, effort, and money early in the development stage.
