Authentication Review
Password hashing, session handling, and OAuth/SSO flow review for common auth vulnerabilities.
Security Add-On
A scoped security review and hardening pass for MVPs and early-stage products: we audit authentication, access control, data handling, and third-party dependencies, then fix what we find. This is a lighter-touch add-on for products that need common security gaps closed before a launch, funding round, or customer security questionnaire, not the full compliance rebuild covered by Enterprise-Grade Engineering. If you need a broader codebase health check spanning architecture, performance, and AI surfaces as well as security, start with MVP Codebase Audit instead; this add-on is for teams that already know security specifically is the gap.
2-3 Weeks
Typical Delivery
Zero Downtime
Fix Rollout
What the Security Add-On Covers
1
Authentication & Session Review
- Password policy and hashing algorithm review (bcrypt/argon2 vs. outdated schemes)
- Session token handling: httpOnly/secure/SameSite cookie flags and expiry
- OAuth and SSO flow review for redirect and token-leak vulnerabilities
- Multi-factor authentication gap analysis for admin and privileged accounts
2
Access Control Audit
- Role and permission matrix review against actual enforcement in code
- Horizontal privilege escalation checks (can user A access user B's data via ID manipulation)
- API endpoint authorization checks for IDOR (insecure direct object reference) issues
- Admin panel and internal tooling exposure review
3
Data Handling Review
- PII inventory and data flow mapping across the application
- Encryption at rest and in transit review (TLS config, database encryption)
- Secrets management review: environment variables vs. a proper vault (AWS Secrets Manager, Doppler)
- Logging hygiene check to confirm secrets and PII aren't written to logs
4
Dependency & Vulnerability Scanning
- Automated software composition analysis (npm audit, Snyk, or GitHub Dependabot)
- Known-CVE triage prioritised by actual exploitability, not just CVSS score
- Outdated framework and runtime version flags with an upgrade path
- Transitive dependency risk review for packages with excessive permissions
5
Hardening & Remediation
- Fix implementation for findings, ranked by severity, not just a report
- Input validation, output encoding, and rate limiting on exposed endpoints
- Security headers: CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options, X-Content-Type-Options
- Remediation verification pass to confirm each fix actually closes the gap
Security Add-On Services
Review, harden, verify
Access Control Audit
Role and permission enforcement review, plus IDOR checks across API endpoints.
Data Handling Review
PII mapping, encryption review, and secrets management audit.
Dependency Vulnerability Scan
SCA scanning and CVE triage across your full dependency tree.
Input Validation & Rate Limiting
Endpoint-level validation and abuse protection for exposed APIs.
Manual Security Testing
Manual checks against common OWASP Top 10 vulnerability classes.
Secrets & Config Hardening
Moving secrets out of code and into proper secret management.
Remediation Verification
Confirming every fix actually closes the vulnerability it targets.
Why a Scoped Security Add-On
Scoped, Not Open-Ended
This is a fixed-scope review and hardening pass, not an open-ended audit engagement or a full SOC 2 / HIPAA rebuild. If you need that level of program, see Enterprise-Grade Engineering.
Fixes, Not Just Findings
We implement and verify the fixes ourselves as part of the engagement, rather than handing you a PDF of vulnerabilities and leaving remediation to your team.
Built on Tools You Already Have
Dependency scanning and hardening use standard tooling for your stack (npm audit, Snyk, framework-native security headers), not a proprietary platform you'd need to keep paying for.
Honest About Scope
We are clear about what this add-on is not: a licensed penetration test with a signed report, or a compliance certification. If your enterprise deal requires either, we will say so upfront and can help scope that separately.
Why a Scoped Security Add-On
Scoped, Not Open-Ended
This is a fixed-scope review and hardening pass, not an open-ended audit engagement or a full SOC 2 / HIPAA rebuild. If you need that level of program, see Enterprise-Grade Engineering.
Fixes, Not Just Findings
We implement and verify the fixes ourselves as part of the engagement, rather than handing you a PDF of vulnerabilities and leaving remediation to your team.
Built on Tools You Already Have
Dependency scanning and hardening use standard tooling for your stack (npm audit, Snyk, framework-native security headers), not a proprietary platform you'd need to keep paying for.
Honest About Scope
We are clear about what this add-on is not: a licensed penetration test with a signed report, or a compliance certification. If your enterprise deal requires either, we will say so upfront and can help scope that separately.
Security Add-On FAQ
Enterprise-Grade Engineering is a full production-hardening program: SOC 2/HIPAA compliance architecture, multi-region infrastructure, and audit-ready documentation, typically 3-6 months. The Security Add-On is a scoped review and hardening pass focused specifically on authentication, access control, data handling, and dependencies, delivered in 2-3 weeks. Most MVP-stage products need the add-on, not the full program.
No. We do manual review and testing against common vulnerability classes (OWASP Top 10-style issues: broken access control, injection, misconfiguration), but we do not produce a licensed pentest report with a signed attestation. If a customer or investor specifically requires a formal third-party pentest, we can help you scope that with a specialised firm separately.
Depends on your stack: npm audit or Snyk for Node/JavaScript, pip-audit or Safety for Python, and GitHub Dependabot alerts where the repo is already on GitHub. We triage what these tools surface rather than just forwarding raw output, since not every flagged CVE is actually exploitable in your context.
It addresses the technical questions most security questionnaires ask about: auth, access control, encryption, and dependency management. It will not produce a SOC 2 report or a signed pentest, so if the questionnaire specifically requires either of those artifacts, this add-on alone will not satisfy it.
2-3 weeks for a typical MVP-sized codebase: about a week for the review across auth, access control, data handling, and dependencies, and the remainder for fixing and verifying what we find.
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