Security Testing

Security Testing

Our toolchain: OWASP ZAP for automated baseline scanning in CI (DAST), Burp Suite Professional for manual deep-dive — still the industry standard for offensive security work and a long-term skill-shortage role in the Australian and APAC market. Snyk and Dependabot for dependency tracking, Trivy for container image scans, Semgrep and SonarQube for static analysis (SAST), Nuclei for template-based vulnerability scanning across exposed surface area.

What is Security Testing?

Security testing is a type of software testing that uncovers vulnerabilities, threats, and risks in software applications and helps prevent malicious attacks. It involves testing the application's security mechanisms to ensure data and resources are protected from unauthorized access.

Types of Security Testing

Common Security Vulnerabilities

How We Run Security Testing

For fintech-style customers — portfolio analytics, transaction systems, broker integrations — we additionally run authenticated scans, IDOR-class manual testing, and JWT/OAuth flow review. For EUDR-style compliance platforms we test data-residency assumptions (does Australian or EU PII actually stay where the privacy notice claims it does?) and audit-trail tamper-resistance. These are the things automated scanners don't find.

All findings come with reproducible proof-of-concept steps, CVSS-scored severity, and remediation recommendations mapped to OWASP guidance. The deliverable is a written report engineering teams can act on — not a vulnerability scanner's raw output dumped into a PDF.

Want a security review that finds the business-logic bugs scanners miss?

Two ways in: book a 30-minute discovery call (better for CXOs scoping a project) or request a written test-strategy review of your current setup (better for CTOs and engineering leads who want a second opinion). Both are no-obligation.