Application Security Review Service

Strengthen Application Security Beyond Vulnerability Assessments Testing

Application Security Review assesses the complete application ecosystem, from architecture and deployment to integrations and operational security. The assessment identifies security gaps across business-critical applications and provides risk-prioritized recommendations to strengthen resilience, reduce cyber risk, and support secure business operations.

Benefits

Security Across the Application

A broader view of application security helps organizations identify gaps beyond technical vulnerabilities, strengthen protection across the application lifecycle, and improve application resilience across modern enterprise environments.

01
Identify Security Gaps
Identify weaknesses across application architecture, deployment, integrations, supporting platform controls, development practices, and operational security controls.
02
Strengthen Data Protection
Assess authentication, access controls, secure communications, cryptography, and sensitive data handling across the application ecosystem.
03
Improve App Resilience
Identify improvement opportunities across application security architecture, supporting infrastructure, development practices, and operations to strengthen application resilience.

Features

Application Architecture Assessment

Review application architecture, design patterns, trust boundaries, component interactions, and security-by-design principles. Authentication, authorization, session management, APIs, and secure communications are also assessed to identify weaknesses in how users, components, and services interact and to evaluate how security controls are integrated into the overall application design.

Identity & Data Protection

Assess application-related identity and access controls, including authentication, MFA, RBAC, least privilege, session management, and credential protection, alongside sensitive data handling. The review covers data classification, secure storage, secrets management, privacy controls, encryption, key management, hashing, and digital certificates to identify risks affecting access, sensitive information, and cryptographic controls within the application environment.

Identity & Data Protection

Secure Development Review

Review Secure SDLC practices, secure coding standards, code review processes, dependency management, CI/CD security, application hardening, and security testing practices. The assessment also reviews how application-related threats and vulnerabilities are identified, tested, tracked, and remediated, including relevant vulnerability assessment and penetration testing practices. This helps identify gaps in development and security assurance processes throughout the application lifecycle.

Platform Protection & Operational Continuity

Assess security controls related to application deployment and supporting platforms, including applicable cloud and container environments, secure configuration practices, logging, monitoring, backup and recovery, high availability, and incident readiness. Application-related security integrations and operational controls are also reviewed to identify weaknesses that may affect the application's supporting platforms and its ability to maintain secure and resilient operations.

Methodology

Review, Assess, Improve

The assessment is tailored to the application’s architecture, deployment model, business criticality, and regulatory requirements, using applicable Saudi cybersecurity regulations and recognized international standards and best practices.

Step 1

Select References

Select applicable standards and requirements based on application architecture, deployment model, business criticality, and regulatory requirements.

Step 2

Review Ecosystem

Assess application architecture, supporting platforms, development practices, integrations, data protection, and application-related operational security controls.

Step 3

Identify Gaps

Identify security weaknesses, control gaps, development risks, and improvement opportunities across the application lifecycle.

Step 4

Prioritize Improvements

Develop practical, risk-prioritized recommendations to strengthen application security and improve resilience.

Why Application Security Review?

See Security Beyond the Code

Modern applications depend on more than secure code. Architecture, infrastructure, identity, integrations, data handling, development practices, and operations all influence application security. A comprehensive review provides a clearer view of these interconnected areas and helps identify practical improvements across the application security landscape.

Complete Assessment

Assess application security across architecture, supporting platforms, development practices, integrations, data protection, and operational controls rather than focusing solely on technical vulnerabilities.