Cloud, Security & Operations
Application Security
Security built into how your software is designed, coded and released: threat modelling, secure code review, SAST and dependency scanning in the pipeline, and developer training.
Capability overview
What application security involves
Application security is about the development process rather than a single test. Finding a flaw during design costs a conversation; finding it after release costs an incident. We help engineering teams catch problems early without slowing delivery to a crawl.
Programmes are measured against OWASP SAMM, which gives a maturity score across governance, design, implementation, verification and operations. Tooling is added to the CI pipeline, but tuned so developers see a short list of real issues instead of hundreds of warnings.
What is included
Programme components
Threat modelling
Short design sessions for new features that handle payments, personal data or permissions, recording threats and required controls in the ticket.
Pipeline security tooling
Static analysis with tools such as Semgrep or SonarQube, dependency scanning for vulnerable libraries and secret detection on every commit.
Secure code review
Manual review of high-risk code paths such as authentication, authorisation and cryptography, where automated tools miss context.
Developer enablement
Language-specific secure coding sessions built around real findings from your own codebase, plus security champions in each team.
How we work
How we deliver application security
SAMM baseline
Current practices scored through interviews with engineering leads, product owners and whoever handles releases.
Tool selection
Scanners chosen to fit your languages, repository host and budget, including open source options where they are good enough.
Pipeline integration
Scans added to pull requests with severity thresholds agreed, so only serious new issues block a merge.
Backlog cleanup
Existing findings triaged once, false positives suppressed and genuine issues placed into team backlogs with fix guidance.
Maturity review
SAMM score reassessed after six months to show which practices have taken hold and which need more support.
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Design, hardening and review of firewalls, VPNs, wireless and internal segmentation across offices, data centres and branch sites, so a single compromised device cannot reach everything.
Endpoint Security
Protection for laptops, desktops, servers and mobile devices through endpoint detection and response, hardening, patching and device management that works for remote and office staff.
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Questions & answers
Questions about Application Security
Cannot find what you need? Our team responds to technical and commercial questions within one business day.
Ask a questionIt should not. Fast checks run on each pull request and heavier scans run nightly. Thresholds are tuned so builds fail only for new high-severity issues.
Yes, read access to repositories is needed for code review and scanner setup. Access is limited to named engineers and removed at the end of the engagement.
The SAMM assessment and tooling setup are fixed-price projects. Continuing code review and champion support are offered as a monthly retainer.
A developer in each product team who receives extra security training, triages scanner findings for the team and brings design questions to the security specialists early. Champions spread knowledge far faster than a central team working alone.
Next step
Discuss application security with Acmez
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