Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) – Automated Scans and/or Manual Pentests
Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) is executing penetration tests on Applications and APIs as they are running to find vulnerabilities a.k.a. security defects. DAST is a simulation of hacker’s approach of real-world attacks, with a combined approach of Manual & Automated testing techniques, to uncover critical vulnerabilities like cross-site scripting (XSS), SQL injection (SQLi), cross-site request forgery (CSRF) etc and misconfigurations that other security tools cannot detect.
Evoke’s approach of Manual Pentests includes manual Software Composition Analysis (SCA) based on Tech Stack and basic Network Penetration Test (NPT Unauthenticated) as much as that’s part of application security scope.
Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
Static Application Security Testing (SAST) is examining the application’s source code in a non-running state. This method of testing often provides a comprehensive view of the application’s code, allowing for a thorough examination of potential vulnerabilities that could potentially lead to security breaches. By reviewing the code in its non-running state, SAST can help identify issues like input validation errors, buffer overflows, and insecure server configurations.
Remediation Services and Solution Review
Vulnerabilities can come anytime & from anywhere – end users, proactive Security Researchers, 3rd-Party pentest reports etc. Sometimes you need just a little help with remediation, at other times you’re feeling overrun and don’t even know where to start. Remediation services helps you through minimizing exploitable security weaknesses by providing risk-based remediation assistance and design the system to reduce, accept & transfer the risk than to avoid.
At times the ideal solutions available/recommended are not implementable depending on product’s unique architecture. In such cases, our team of Security Engineers work with product teams to review solutions and help determine which alternative solutions would mitigate the vulnerability or reduce the risk & to what extent.
Application Security Assessment
Application Security Assessment is an end-to-end approach that ensures overall Product/Application Security by evaluating all the below phases.
- Requirements Evaluation for Security considerations
- Design/Architecture Review & Threat Modeling
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA)
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST)
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) – Automated Scans and Manual Pentests
- Network Penetration Test (NPT Unauthenticated) within application security scope
- Custom Evoke Report with Custom Remediation Suggestions per the Business, Design & Functionality
- Results Review with Product Team prior sharing Final Report
- Alternative Solutions Brainstorming/Review for Critical Vulnerabilities
Shift-Left Security Incorporation
Organizations are at a critical juncture of ensuring delivering high quality secure applications as they try to match business trends of fast-paced development cycles and often application security becomes the bottleneck. Shift-Left Security is the idea of enforcing security validations earlier in the software development life cycle (SDLC) and is the way to remedy these problems. As vulnerabilities found earlier in SDLC are much easier and cheaper to fix, Secure SDLC Transformation is the key to keeping up with business requirements by establishing Security Center of Excellence.
