Application security testing services

Make your software more resistant to cyber threats and ensure business continuity with N-iX application security testing services.

Prevent system breaches and fortify your business with application security testing

Regular application security testing enhances your cybersecurity posture, reduces risks of cyber threats, saves costs, and ensures your business continuity. Conducting assessments during software development allows you to avoid significant resources needed to remediate vulnerabilities after application release.

As an experienced cybersecurity consulting company , N-iX can help you leverage advanced testing methodologies and comprehensive assessments to reveal and fix weaknesses that attackers can exploit. We offer a full scope of application security testing services that will help you automate the testing process, identify vulnerabilities, and mitigate them. Our engineers will effectively utilize various testing tools and simulate attacks to safeguard your application environment.

Protect your critical data and maintain the integrity of your applications by conducting security testing with N-iX.

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We conduct comprehensive testing of your applications

Identity management

We will assess policies and technologies to verify that authorized users have proper access to applications. Our experts will test the following vulnerabilities:

  • Account enumeration
  • User impersonation
  • Insecure account recovery practices
  • Privilege escalation
  • Role misconfigurations
  • Inadequate password complexity
  • Insecure multi-factor authentication (MFA)
  • Social engineering attacks leading to account takeover

Authentication and authorization

N-iX will verify user identities and credentials to ensure correct access control to the system and specific resources. We will identify entry vulnerabilities by these criteria:

  • Credential stuffing
  • Brute force login attempts
  • Insecure direct object references
  • Missing function-level access controls
  • Exposed sensitive data through error messages
  • Use of hard-coded credentials

Session management

N-iX will evaluate vulnerabilities in session handling to ensure they are secure and are automatically terminated when a user logs out. During this assessment, we can identify:

  • Session hijacking and fixation
  • Insecure session token handling
  • Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
  • Use of predictable session tokens
  • Session token leaks
  • Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) misconfigurations
  • Insecure session storage

Client-side security

N-iX will check software within the browser or client environment to ensure that your application functions correctly and meets the specified requirements. This includes:

  • Cross-site scripting (XSS)
  • Client-side logic manipulation
  • DOM-based attacks
  • Local storage insecurity
  • Security misconfigurations in client frameworks/libraries
  • Insufficient input validation leading to client-side vulnerabilities

API security

We will test application programming interfaces to determine if they meet the security requirements. N-iX will apply the best techniques to check:

  • API endpoint exposure
  • Inefficient rate limiting
  • Insecure data exposure
  • Broken object-level authorization
  • Insecure deserialization
  • Lack of resources and rate limiting leading to Denial of Service (DoS) attacks

Cryptography

N-iX will assess encrypted data based on several independent parameters, such as the strength of the cryptographic algorithm and the secrecy of the key. We do this by following these criteria:

  • Insufficient encryption strength
  • Use of deprecated cryptographic algorithms
  • Poor key management
  • Vulnerable certificate handling

Types of application security testing we specialize in

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

Our team will analyze source code or compiled versions of code to identify vulnerabilities without executing the application. Utilizing SAST, we will identify potential weaknesses and coding errors.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

Our security professionals will test applications while they are running by simulating attacks to find vulnerabilities. With DAST, we will find input validation errors, configuration weaknesses, and authentication flaws.

Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST)

N-iX will integrate dynamic and interactive testing to examine the application with real user inputs and actions in a controlled environment. We will also use the IAST approach for real-time vulnerability reporting.

Manual penetration testing

While conducting penetration testing, our security experts will imitate attacker behavior to exploit vulnerabilities and identify security weaknesses that cannot be found by automated tools. Pen testing will extend DAST capabilities by taking a hands-on approach.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

N-iX will identify and manage the application's open-source sub-components and third-party libraries. We will also analyze dependencies and evaluate their security status, addressing known vulnerabilities and compliance issues.

Mobile Application Security Testing (MAST)

Our team will simulate attacks on mobile applications and focus on mobile-specific security concerns like data leakage, authentication and communication issues, and malicious Wi-Fi networks. We will also retest and verify your applications after their updates.

How can you benefit from application security testing services

  • Business continuity

    Enhance your software resilience, ensuring applications are resistant to attacks and can recover swiftly in the event of a breach.

  • Regulatory compliance

    Ensure compliance with data protection regulations and minimize the risk of legal issues and fines associated with non-compliance.

  • Risk minimization

    Reduce risks of cyber threats and software vulnerabilities to strengthen your applications' security.

  • Cost-effectiveness

    Save costs by conducting early application testing to prevent potential breaches and avoid significant post-disruption remediation expenses.

  • Enhanced reputation management

    Protect your brand by prioritizing software security to increase customer trust in your software products and boost their loyalty.

Our approach to application security testing

1

Scope identification

We analyze the critical security areas and architecture to understand the potential threat landscape and your business needs. We also identify the assessment parameters and assemble a security testing team with diverse expertise for further testing.

2

Designing an action plan

Based on application properties and identified potential vulnerabilities, our security team creates a comprehensive testing plan. It includes specific types of testing to be performed, tools that will be utilized, and expected outcomes. We also prepare a process model and CI/CD toolset, where particular AST activities will be integrated.

3

Performing tests

We conduct tests by combining automated tools and manual testing techniques to discover all the potential vulnerabilities. Our security team usually conducts static analysis (SAST and SCA) during the development phase and DAST and IAST after deployment.

4

Vulnerability analysis and manual testing

Our team reviews the outputs from automated tests, identifies weaknesses, and validates the findings. After this, our security specialists conduct manual penetration tests to find vulnerabilities that automated tools may have missed.

5

Reporting

After conducting all the testing activities, our security specialists compile the results into a concise report. It includes information about every detected vulnerability, its risk level, and recommendations for remediation. N-iX also facilitates mitigating risks and helps address vulnerabilities.

6

Monitoring and maintenance

The last stage of providing web application security testing services is monitoring. After the product release, we continue to maintain your security posture and update testing procedures to new security threats. N-iX offers planned application security testing as well as regular assessments of your software.

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Why consider N-iX as your application security testing company?

100+

Completed security and business continuity projects

20+

Security consultants

21

Years of experience

22

Industries served

160+

Active clients

ISO, SOC2, PCI DSS, GDPR

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FAQ

Application security testing services involve assessing, analyzing, and reporting on the security status of an application throughout its lifecycle, from the early development stages through deployment and maintenance.

Web application security testing is a method for assessing a web application's security by systematically validating and verifying the effectiveness of its security controls. A web application security testing company conducts assessments of web applications to identify vulnerabilities and weaknesses that attackers could exploit.
Application security as a service (ASaaS) is a cooperation model where an outsourced provider offers security services and solutions for client's applications.
There are six main types of application security testing: Static Application Security Testing (SAST), Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST), Interactive Application Security Testing (IAST), Software Composition Analysis (SCA), Mobile Application Security Testing (MAST), and manual penetration testing.
The frequency of application security testing varies depending on the app's development speed, its value, and vulnerability to attacks. Application security testing should be part of the development lifecycle process and performed systematically after every code change.
The three pillars of application security are process (workloads, procedures, and policies used to regulate applications), technology (security tools and products for app protection), and people (managing human risks).

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