Aspect verifies critical applications for the largest financial, utility, media, e-commerce, and entertainment companies in the world. We have verified hundreds of millions of lines of code in applications written in Java, JSP, C, C++, C#, ASP, VB, VB.NET, ABAP, PHP, Dynamo, Cold Fusion, and Perl and in environments including J2EE, .NET, SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and Struts.

Verifying application security gives you the confidence you need to trust your business to your software. Aspect's Assurance Services provide deep understanding of the security of your applications via clear, structured, and actionable scorecards supported by comprehensive detailed findings.

Our unique evaluation approach combines security code review and penetration testing to ensure completeness, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness in identifying vulnerabilities, determining related risks and impacts, and ascertaining root causes. Aspect provides services to verify the security of entire application portfolios or of individual applications.

Application Security Evaluation

For applications that are already in production or that are reasonably close to go live, we recommend a full security verification that takes advantage of vulnerability scanning, static analysis, security code review, and application security testing. This will verify that all necessary security mechanisms are in place and working as expected, as well as search for common vulnerabilities.

For most applications, this combined approach is most cost-effective. However, in cases where the source code is not available or where access to the running application is impossible, we can use the available techniques to validate security. Read more about our methodology...

Third Party Application Security Evaluation

Aspect frequently verifies the security of software developed by a third party. Whether this software is a commercial product, custom developed software, or outsourced to overseas developers, we can work with you and the third party to verify the security of the application. Aspect is skilled at working across all the different internal and external groups involved in securing third party applications.

Application Security Requirements Review

Application security requirements frequently go unstated. Projects in the process of defining requirements will benefit from verifying that the security requirements are complete and testable. Ensuring that all team members have an understanding of what's expected can keep your project on track and minimize the total lifecycle cost of security to your project.

Application Security Architecture Review

Many security design flaws can be identiifed and eliminated before implementation starts through an application security architecture review. These reviews are relatively short and can save significant rework later in the process. In many organizations, these reviews are required before an application is allowed to proceed into development.

Application Inventory Security Analysis

Aspect enables your company to understand the security of your entire application portfolio – its strengths, weaknesses, complexities, and risks to your business. This is done in a way that is compatible with your company’s culture, development processes, and risk management approach, and enables proactive comprehensive management of applications and associated risks.

We'll tailor our proven application security inventory management approach with the factors that drive security criticality for your business. You'll get insight into security for existing applications and understand the drivers for new projects. Aspect also defines processes to keep the security information in the inventory up-to-date. The scored inventory allows continuous reprioritization of security activities for all of your company’s web, web services, and other software applications throughout their lifecycles.

You'll get a systematic approach with defensible rules and metrics, clear priorities for budgeting resources and efforts (schedule, costs, investments, staff), and visibility into application security across the organization.