Application Security Assessments

 

An Adversarial Perspective of Applications

Optiv’s Holistic Approach to Application Assessments

 

Optiv builds an understanding of applications and their supporting environments before testing. Our process:
 
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Application profiling

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Threat Analysis

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Manual testing

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Network testing

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Static analysis of

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Optiv application security testing offers:

 

  • Assessment deliverables include a severity-ranked list of security vulnerabilities, along with recommendations for remediation
  • Dedicated project managers and consulting resources with matching experience are assigned to your project
 
 
  • Optiv experts provide peer review and quality assurance for assessment deliverables
  • Our tool-assisted, manual testing methodology finds significantly more vulnerabilities than automated scans alone

 

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Types of Application Assessments at Optiv

API Assessment: Security testing of APIs and web services, including external, internal, and cloud API endpoints.

 

Cloud Infrastructure Assessment: Testing intended to determine security, performance, and reliability of a client's cloud infrastructure. Includes assessing the architecture, configuration, and management of cloud environments to identify potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses that could be exploited by attackers.

 

Database Security Review: Security testing of database instances and servers, including internal and cloud databases. The assessment evaluates the database configuration and security controls in place.

 

Mobile Application Assessment: Security testing of applications built for iOS and Android platforms

Source Code Review: Tool-assisted manual inspection of application source code to identify elusive security vulnerabilities that make an application susceptible to attack.

 

Thick Client Assessment: Manually testing of internal and external-facing desktop and server applications for application security vulnerabilities.

 

Web Application Assessment: Comprehensive security testing of web applications, including external, internal, and cloud applications.

 

Web Application Vulnerability Scan: High-level security testing of web applications, including those in external, internal, and cloud environments. Includes custom scan setup, false positive removal, and high-assurance reporting.

The Optiv Application Security Advantage

 

Our team of application security experts has extensive knowledge and experience in applications of all forms – web, API, thick client, mobile, cloud, SaaS – and the architectures and environments supporting them. We have an in-depth understanding of dynamic application and code scanning tools and methods and use these in conjunction with manual testing.

 

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Highly technical security consultants dedicated boutique-style application

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Years combined programming and AppSec experience

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Out of 10 of the Fortune 10 companies, 
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