AppSec Assessment
Application Security (AppSec) Assessment helps you understand the security position of your organisation. Zacco can identify vulnerabilities, misconfigurations and other gaps in your system that could be exploited throughout the software development lifecycle.
Zacco can help you implement advanced security tools, best practice process and a security mindset. We can also provide ongoing monitoring and support, ensuring application security stays updated, and maintaining a culture of security awareness.
Assessing your AppSec Requirements
Shifting left’, is one of the most important steps in securing your systems, network or products. We will Introduce security best practice, tools and processes during the earliest stages of the software development lifecycle. ‘We can also support the development and implementation of comprehensive frameworks designed to fulfil application security and compliance requirements.
Ongoing monitoring and review ensure that your system remains compliant with evolving security requirements and any necessary updates. Our consultants can support all stages of the process, from strategy, development and management to comprehensive set up before handing over full control to your in-house teams.
Build Security in during the design stage
Designing products and building scalable and reliable architecture is difficult, but security adds another complex dimension to development processes. We can support you with app design, system and application architecture planning, data flow and threat modelling.
Designing and building in new requirements to any system inevitably encounters security challenges. Our consultants can support the comprehensive review process, assisting your team or implementing changes, creating secure transitions within your application.
AppSec Development
Secure applications are developed with data and information security built into their foundations, by teams who understand their implications. Complementing more general development support, we can help you upskill in-house security teams through courses and workshops. These cover a range of topics such as OWASP TOP 10 list, Secure Coding best practice, and advanced tooling.
Ongoing training keeps your team aware of emerging threats through development activities like ‘capture-the-flag’ or penetration testing, alongside conventional training. This ensures that teams stay up to date and security aware, when new developers join or change teams.
Keep AppSec fit for purpose through testing
Your testing should cover all aspects of an application, to identify potential flaws or weaknesses before they can be exploited. ‘Shifting left’ means mitigating security vulnerabilities early in the development process, testing is then the last line of defence.
Automated testing tools are a good start. Scanning source code through SAST and testing the running application through DAST, as well as Software Composition Analysis (SCA) are integral parts of the development pipeline, particularly within complex architecture. Manual penetration tests can also simulate real world attacks, representing another valuable piece of the security puzzle.
Understanding the results of complex security tools and assessments is important, if you want to ensure and gaps are identified and closed. We can provide support and actionable insight on how to fix discovered vulnerabilities, fine tune test tooling and maintain a high level of internal security awareness.
If you would like to discuss how Zacco can assist you in building security into your design and development processes, or mitigating the risk of vulnerabilities, reach out to one of our Digital Trust consultants to learn more.
