Secure Code Review
Secure Code Review
Secure Code Review Secure Code Review A secure code review examines your application's source code directly — catching vulnerabilities that black-box testing cannot reach. Our consultants combine static analysis tooling with expert manual review to find insecure patterns, logic flaws and unsafe dependencies early, when they are cheapest to fix.
Overview
What is a secure code review?
A secure code review is a systematic assessment of an application's source code to identify security weaknesses — injection flaws, insecure authentication, hard-coded secrets, weak cryptography and unsafe handling of data — before they reach production.
By reviewing the code itself, we can trace issues to the exact line and give developers precise, actionable remediation guidance — strengthening your secure development lifecycle rather than just testing the finished product.
What you'll receive
- ✓Scoping: agreed repositories, languages and high-risk components to prioritise
- ✓Review: static analysis combined with expert manual review of security-critical code paths
- ✓Executive report: a code-health summary for stakeholders and engineering leads
- ✓Technical report: insecure patterns and logic flaws with file and line references
- ✓Remediation: secure-coding guidance tailored to your language and framework
- ✓Retest & debrief: a review of fixes and a walkthrough call with your developers
Why It Matters
The value of regular security reviews
Evaluate your controls
Regular security reviews enable organisations to comprehensively evaluate their security measures, including the effectiveness of controls, configurations, and policies.
Strengthen your posture
Identifying weaknesses allows organisations to strengthen their security posture and better protect their assets and data against evolving threats.
Meet compliance
Regular security assessments are essential for compliance with industry regulations and data protection laws, demonstrating your commitment to a secure environment.
High-Level Methodology
A structured, five-phase approach
Scoping & Handover
We agree the repositories, languages and security-critical areas in scope, and arrange secure access to the source. You brief us on the application's architecture so the review is focused and efficient.
Automated Static Analysis
We run static application security testing (SAST) tooling across the codebase to surface common insecure patterns, risky functions and known-vulnerable dependencies at scale, ready for expert triage.
Manual Code Review
Our consultants manually review the security-critical code — authentication, access control, cryptography, input handling and session management — finding logic flaws and context-specific issues that tools cannot detect.
Data-Flow & Dependency Analysis
We trace how untrusted data flows through the application from source to sink, and review third-party dependencies and how they are used, to catch injection points and supply-chain risks.
Reporting & Developer Guidance
We deliver a report that pinpoints each issue to the exact file and line, with clear, developer-focused remediation guidance, and we are happy to walk your engineers through the findings.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which languages and frameworks do you review?
Our consultants review the major languages and frameworks, including JavaScript and TypeScript, Python, Java, C#/.NET, PHP, Go and Ruby. If you use a less common stack, let us know when scoping and we'll confirm coverage.
How much does a secure code review cost?
Cost depends on the size of the codebase, its complexity and how much of it is security-critical. We can review an entire application or focus on high-risk components. Contact us for a customised quote.
What information is required to scope a test?
To accurately scope a penetration test, we typically need information about your network range (IP addresses), domain names, key systems and applications, and any specific security concerns you have.
How is a code review different from a penetration test?
A penetration test assesses a running application from the outside, without visibility of the code. A secure code review works from the inside, examining the source directly — so it can find issues a black-box test would miss and pinpoint the exact location of each flaw. The two are complementary and work best together.
What are the most common issues you find?
Recurring findings include injection flaws, hard-coded secrets, weak or misused cryptography, insecure deserialisation, missing input validation and output encoding, and vulnerable third-party dependencies.
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