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CAPABILITY · APPLICATION SECURITY

Four scanners,
one report.

Static analysis, dependency audit, dynamic testing and an AI penetration tester — run against every release and deduped into a single severity-ranked list.

● FOUR SCANNERS · ONE REPORTSUDO/APPSEC
02 · WHAT IT IS
What it is

Everything an attacker can reach — the code, what it pulls in, and the app that is actually running.

An application’s attack surface is three things at once: every line your team writes, every package and image you pull in, and the live URL exactly as an attacker meets it. Testing one and calling it secure leaves the other two open.

So four scanners run against all three. Two of them read what you wrote — static analysis of the source, and an audit of every dependency. Two of them attack what you run — dynamic testing against the live application, and an AI penetration tester that chains flaws the way a person would.

Static scanners read what you wrote; the dynamic pair attacks what you run — the way a breach actually starts. Their output is deduplicated into one report, severity-ranked and ordered fix-first, so the list your engineers open is a queue rather than four inboxes.

03 · SCANNERS
Scanners · 4 of 4

Four scan classes, one findings report.

STATIC

Static code analysis — SAST

Reads every line of source and flags exploitable patterns before they ship.

  • Parses the code itself, tracing how untrusted input travels through it
  • Rulepacks cover the OWASP Top 10 and CWE flaw patterns for each major language
  • Findings point to the exact file and line, so the fix lands before release
Example findings
  • SQL injection — user input concatenated into a database query.
  • Cross-site scripting — unescaped input rendered into a page.
  • Command injection — request data reaching a shell command.
  • Hard-coded secrets — keys and passwords committed to source.
  • Weak cryptography — MD5, ECB mode, fixed salts.
  • Path traversal — file paths built from user input.
STATIC

Software composition analysis — SCA

Most of a modern app is open source you didn’t write. This audits all of it.

  • Inventories every package, direct and transitive, plus container image layers
  • Checks each version against public CVE databases refreshed daily
  • Each hit names the fixed version to upgrade to — patching, not research
Example findings
  • Known-CVE packages — a pinned version with a published exploit.
  • Transitive flaws — a vulnerability three dependencies deep.
  • Vulnerable base images — container OS layers years out of date.
  • Secrets in images — credentials baked into a container layer.
  • Licence risk — GPL-family licences hiding deep in the tree.
  • IaC misconfiguration — Kubernetes and Terraform granting root.
DYNAMIC

Dynamic application testing — DAST

Probes the live application exactly the way an attacker would — from outside.

  • Crawls every page and API of the running app, then fires real attack traffic
  • Runs the OWASP Top 10 as live attacks — injection, XSS, auth and session flaws
  • A finding here was demonstrated against the app, not inferred from the code
Example findings
  • Injection, proven live — shown on the wire, not in theory.
  • XSS that executes — payloads that actually fire in the browser.
  • Broken authentication — sessions that survive logout.
  • CSRF — state-changing requests accepted without proof of intent.
  • Missing security headers — no CSP, HSTS or cookie flags.
  • Information leakage — stack traces and debug endpoints exposed.
DYNAMIC

The AI penetration tester

Reasons like a human pentester: probes, adapts, chains flaws into an attack.

  • An autonomous agent that explores the app, forms attack hypotheses, tests them
  • Goes where rulebooks can’t — business logic, workflow abuse, multi-step chains
  • Reports a replayable attack narrative, not a list of rule IDs
Example findings
  • Broken object access — change one ID, read another customer’s account.
  • Privilege escalation — a normal user reaching admin functions.
  • Business-logic abuse — negative quantities, replayed coupons.
  • Chained attacks — three low findings combined into a takeover.
  • Auth workflow flaws — reset links that leak tokens, OTPs that never expire.
  • Mass data exposure — one authorised request, iterated over IDs.
04 · WHAT YOU GET
What you get

Grey-box testing on every release, with a report your engineers can act on.

Testing runs against a staging URL with test credentials you issue and can revoke — so the application is examined both as an outsider meets it and as a logged-in user does, including authenticated flows, roles and object access.

Each finding carries a reproducible proof. Anything that could not be demonstrated is graded Tentative rather than presented as fact. Only hosts you name are probed; anything out of scope is noted and never attacked.

What every report contains
  • Scope and in-scope hosts, as tested
  • Endpoints mapped by reconnaissance
  • Vulnerability classes hunted
  • Severity summary and fix-first priority
  • Per finding: description and impact
  • Evidence: the raw request and response
  • A benign, reproducible proof of concept
  • Steps to reproduce, then remediation
  • Confidence grade, CWE and OWASP references
05 · DOMAINS
06 · DELIVERY
Delivered through

The same 5-stage system we run everywhere.

Discovery to scale, engineered for production from day one.

See how we deliver
01
Discover
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Design
03
Build
04
Deploy
05
Scale
Start with a scan

Point it at one application.

We run the full stack against a staging URL — never production, so attack traffic never touches a customer. You get a severity-ranked findings report and a session walking your team through the fixes.

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