01Practice
Application security and secure SDLC services
We help engineering organizations embed security into the development lifecycle: threat modeling, secure design review, SAST/DAST/SCA pipelines, secrets detection and supply chain security, without slowing delivery.
- Name
- Application Security
- Line
- 01 · Cybersecurity
- Type
- Practice, engaged on its own or within a program
01The problem
Security added after the sprint does not scale.
Annual penetration tests find vulnerabilities months after they ship. By then the team has moved on, context is lost, and the backlog grows faster than it burns down. Meanwhile dependencies, build pipelines and secrets sprawl across repositories with no ownership.
The fix is structural: move security into design reviews, pull requests and pipelines, where issues cost minutes to fix instead of weeks.
- Earlier fixes cost less
- A flaw caught in threat modeling costs a design conversation. The same flaw in production costs an incident, a hotfix and sometimes a disclosure.
- Your supply chain is attack surface
- Dependencies, build systems and CI/CD runners are now primary targets. Securing your code means securing how it is built and delivered.
- Developers stay fast
- Guardrails beat gates. Well-tuned pipeline checks and clear standards let engineers self-serve security instead of queuing for reviews.
02Scope
What application security covers.
Secure SDLC Design
A pragmatic security development lifecycle mapped to how your teams actually work: requirements, design, build, release.
Threat Modeling
Structured analysis of new features and architectures to find design-level flaws before code is written.
Security Architecture Review
Review of application and platform architecture: trust boundaries, authentication flows, data paths and failure modes.
Web, API & Mobile Security
Standards, review and testing for the full modern application surface: browser, API and device.
DevSecOps & CI/CD Security
Security controls embedded in pipelines: signed commits, protected branches, hardened runners and policy-as-code.
SAST
Static analysis selection, integration and tuning, configured to your stack so signal beats noise.
DAST
Dynamic testing integrated into pre-production so running applications are exercised on every release.
SCA & Dependency Security
Software composition analysis with reachability context. Patch what is exploitable, not everything with a CVE number.
Secrets Detection
Detection and remediation of credentials in repositories, pipelines and images, plus prevention with pre-commit controls.
Software Supply Chain Security
SBOM generation, artifact signing, provenance and build integrity aligned to SLSA principles.
Secure Code Review
Manual review of security-critical code paths (authentication, crypto, payment flows) where tools fall short.
03Approach
How an application security engagement runs.
Assess
We baseline your current SDLC: tooling, pipeline security, review practices and where vulnerabilities actually originate.
Design
A target-state program sized to your engineering organization: standards, tooling, checkpoints and ownership.
Integrate
SAST, DAST, SCA and secrets scanning wired into your pipelines and tuned until developers trust the results. Where pipelines need rebuilding, our development team does that work.
Enable
Threat modeling workshops, secure coding standards and champions enablement so security scales with headcount.
Measure
Metrics that matter: mean time to remediate, escape rate, coverage. Reported in engineering language, not audit language.
04Deliverables
Application security deliverables.
- SDLC security assessment with gap analysis
- Tooling architecture and integration in your CI/CD
- Tuned rulesets with documented false-positive baselines
- Threat models for critical applications and features
- Secure coding standards mapped to your stack
- Security champions playbook and training materials
When this work fits
- SaaS and product companies shipping weekly or faster
- Engineering leaders inheriting an unmanaged vulnerability backlog
- Teams facing customer security questionnaires about SDLC
- Organizations adopting microservices, containers or platform engineering
05Questions
Application security: questions we are asked
Done right, it speeds them up. Tuned pipeline checks catch issues in pull requests where they cost minutes. The alternative (pre-release security gates and emergency patching) is what actually slows teams down.
We select and integrate tools that fit your stack and budget, commercial or open source. Well-supported open-source options are used where they are the right answer.
Yes. Work normally starts by tuning and properly integrating what you already own before anything new is recommended.
Yes. Threat modeling workshops, secure code review enablement and a security champions model designed to make your teams self-sufficient.
Often alongside