A website security audit is a structured assessment of your web application's attack surface. It covers the OWASP Top 10 vulnerability categories, transport layer security configuration, HTTP security headers (including Content Security Policy), cookie flags, and third-party dependency CVEs. You get a prioritized remediation roadmap ranked by severity and exploitability — written so both your engineers and your executives can actually use it.
Wo Projekte scheitern
Compliance
OWASP Top 10 Review
TLS & Certificate Analysis
HTTP Security Headers & CSP
Cookie Security Assessment
Dependency CVE Scan
Executive Remediation Roadmap
Was wir bauen
Manual Verification
Proof-of-Concept Exploits
Production-Ready Fixes
CVSS Severity Scoring
CI/CD Integration Guidance
Re-Test Included
Unser Prozess
Scoping & Reconnaissance
Automated & Manual Testing
Findings Verification & Scoring
Report & Roadmap Delivery
Remediation Support & Re-Test
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What's the difference between a security audit and a penetration test?
A security audit covers your application's overall security posture — headers, TLS, dependencies, configuration, OWASP compliance. A penetration test goes deeper, focusing on actively exploiting specific vulnerabilities to simulate a real attacker. Our audit includes targeted proof-of-concept exploits for critical findings, which closes a lot of that gap in practice.
How long does a website security audit take?
Most audits wrap up in 7–9 business days from kickoff to report delivery. Complex SaaS applications with multiple auth flows and broad API surfaces can run 10–14 days. The re-test phase adds another 1–2 weeks depending on how quickly your team remediates.
Do you need access to our source code?
Not necessarily. A thorough black-box audit from the outside is entirely doable. That said, access to your dependency manifests — package.json, yarn.lock — makes CVE scanning significantly more accurate. For SaaS applications, authenticated testing access gives us coverage of everything behind the login wall.
What is the OWASP Top 10 and why does it matter?
The OWASP Top 10 is the industry-standard classification of the most critical web application security risks, maintained by the Open Web Application Security Project. It covers injection, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, XML external entities, broken access control, security misconfiguration, XSS, insecure deserialization, vulnerable components, and insufficient logging. Most compliance frameworks reference it directly.
Will the audit break or slow down our production site?
No. We use non-destructive testing methods and throttle automated scanning to avoid any performance impact. Everything's coordinated with your team upfront, and we can schedule intensive scans during low-traffic windows. We never modify data or push exploits beyond safe proof-of-concept demonstrations.
What do we get in the final deliverable?
You get three documents: an executive summary with risk ratings and business impact for leadership, a detailed technical report with reproduction steps and CVSS scores for your engineers, and a phased remediation roadmap prioritized by severity and effort. After remediation, you get a verification report confirming each fix.
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