Application Security

Application security involves checking the security controls of an application, not the operating system or device that hosts the application. The security review is directly related to the applications that have been custom developed or built on top of other commercial applications. Application security testing does not involve looking at hosting software such as the web servers, but rather focuses on the application software itself.

It seems like everything is either a web application or has some backend web service these days. As most organizations have a pretty mature external network perimeter, attackers have turned to application vulnerabilities to find a way into companies. Digital Integrity® goes beyond the automated scans to manually dig into web applications, finding the deep and more severe flaws that a scanner will never find, such as privilege escalation, logic flaws, and encryption implementation issues. This process is also known as Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST). Digital Integrity® goes even further to provide our clients with added value through white box testing. We do this through source-assisted testing, as there a lot of vulnerabilities that are more easily discovered with the source code.