What is a Secure Code Review?

A code review is a way to validate the security requirements of your website application’s source code. It also pinpoints the security weaknesses that might have been overlooked during the process of development, eventually expose your application’s weaknesses. This vulnerable application will be more susceptible to cyber-attacks. Secure code reviews are an alternative method to fix this problem. It involves the manual and automated inspections of your website’s source code to discover the security weaknesses that could exist.

Why do You Need to Perform a Secure Code Review?

These days web applications are essential for all businesses. Web applications manage, store and transmit confidential data within an organisation. The information accessed through web applications has a higher value and, consequently, are an ideal attack for cybercriminals.

Conducting a secure code review is essential to ensure that your websites aren’t vulnerable to cyber-attacks. Businesses must be proactive in attempting to safeguard their web-based applications to ensure their trust and reputation with their customers, users as well as their business associates.

A vulnerable web application can open the way for malicious hackers to steal information, alter controls, undermine your reputation and even lose confidence in your business.

Software developers are subject to cyber-related risks in the event that there are security flaws within their code. These security flaws permit hackers get access to an application and also to bypass security safeguards.

Key Benefits of Secure Code Review

  • A detailed report of your company’s Web application security, including the security vulnerabilities, as well as areas of vulnerability and corrective steps.
  • Evaluation of source code prior to deployment in order to safeguard your company’s reputation from breach or cyber-related incident.
  • High-end protection for your business information IT assets, business intelligence.
  • The review of the source code of the product is to ensure quality as part of the due diligence when acquiring or forming partnerships.
  • Provides assurance on secure defensive development process.
  • Security Assurance for the security of a Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)