🔎 Realistic, Strategy-Led Application Security Testing

This is a custom-built, manual-first security assessment aligned to your application’s architecture, threat model, and operational footprint. The engagement replicates modern attacker tradecraft and adversarial behavior patterns, focusing on pre-auth and post-auth risks, user role abuse, and chained misconfigurations. Each vector is tested through both automated reconnaissance and human-driven exploitation, with results tailored for engineering teams.

🔍 Test Coverage Includes:

• Session management and authentication logic, including token handling, revocation, and replay resistance

• Input validation layers across REST, GraphQL, and UI elements using fuzzing, payload injection, and encoding bypasses

• Access control mechanisms tested against horizontal and vertical privilege escalation scenarios

• Application-specific logic abuse and workflow manipulation such as bypassing multi-step sequences or triggering unintended state changes

• Third-party dependency review and SBOM validation using SCA tools and manual inspection

• Security headers, CORS misconfigurations, and open redirect vectors

• File upload validation, MIME-type enforcement, and SSRF surface checks

• Frontend-source mapping, error leakage, version exposure, and CSP misconfigurations

📄 Deliverables Include:

• Technical PDF report with CVSSv3 scoring, PoC payloads, and affected URIs

• Exploitation walkthroughs with Burp logs, screenshots, and custom tooling where required

• Line-by-line remediation suggestions with contextual notes and relevant CWE/OWASP mappings

• Optional: Executive summary report or 1:1 dev walkthrough for remediation support

🛠️ Technology Focus:

Experienced across SPAs, monoliths, and distributed microservice architectures. Commonly tested stacks include Node.js, Laravel, Flask, Angular, Strapi, Python (Django/Flask), GraphQL, and identity providers such as AWS Cognito, Azure AD B2C, Auth0, and custom OIDC flows. Familiar with Kubernetes ingress policies, reverse proxies, API gateways, and modern CI/CD deployment patterns.

👨‍💻 Analyst Background:

Ireland-based senior security analyst with over five years of freelance application security experience across fintech, e-commerce, and healthcare platforms. My engagements are driven by threat modeling and grounded in adversarial realism. The output is technical, tailored, and designed to withstand scrutiny from both auditors and engineers. I prioritize signal over noise, and quality over quantity.