Application Testing

Applications are entry points to your information assets, and cyber criminals target their weaknesses to gain access to confidential information.

Most companies are focused on ensuring that their applications meet functional business requirements. Pressure to meet development time-to-market demands often result in critical design flaws, improper code implementation, or other vulnerabilities in application components.

Application attacks are extremely difficult to detect.

How We Help You

Our application testing services and experts offer advice on best practices in application assurance and security testing. We are platform agnostic and provide comprehensive application security testing throughout the software development life cycle (SDLC). You need objective, independent and pragmatic security advice in the earliest phases of a project; however, we offer both black box and white box testing during any phase of the project.

The Power of Application Testing

Gain the confidence that your business will not make headlines as a cyber criminal’s latest victim. We will provide you with advice on best practice measures and corrective action required to improve security deployment and integrity. Our consultants provide you with independent expert assurance that applications and processes are able to resist a range of attacks.

Your Dedicated Resource

Our team will be your dedicated security resource, providing guidance and knowledge on best practice security implementations. We deliver objective, independent, and current security knowledge on a wide range of commercial software and applications, and will conduct testing of customized applications based on specific threat scenarios. We will:

  • Identify any non-essential functions that are exposed to users or other applications
  • Review the infrastructure implementation for secure operation
  • Verify the protection of sensitive information and administrative functions
  • Monitor network traffic for transmission of information that may be compromised by a cybercriminal or hacker
  • Test for a wide range of vulnerabilities including the OWASP top ten

Black Box vs. White Box Testing

Black box testing is a software testing method in which the internal structure/ design/ implementation of the application being tested is not known to the tester. White box testing is a software testing method in which the internal structure/ design/ implementation of the item being tested is known to the tester. It is significantly more cost-effective to design with best-practice security in mind from the start; however, Dev-Byrne application assurance specialist skills and expertise can be applied at all stage of the SDLC. We will:

  • Test for resilience to inappropriate data input
  • Review system software for known security flaws and common coding errors
  • Test infrastructure implementation for secure operation
  • Ensure that applications are not prone to “fail open”
  • Code assist, test, and review using automated tools and manual processes

An application level attack is one of the major sources of unauthorized access and misuse of systems today.