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APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING
Your applications are the front door to your business. Every customer portal, mobile app, API endpoint, and internal system is a potential entry point for attackers. NEWORDER ensures your software is secure, resilient, and ready to withstand the techniques real adversaries use every day.
APPLICATION SECURITY TESTING
YOUR FIRST LINE OF DEFENCE AGAINST CYBER THREATS
In today’s digital-first world, applications handle your most sensitive data: customer transactions, financial records, health information, authentication credentials, and core business logic. A single overlooked vulnerability in a web application, API, or mobile app can lead to data breaches and regulatory penalties, service disruptions and costly downtime, loss of customer trust and brand reputation, and financial and legal consequences that can take years to recover from.
Despite this, many development teams overlook security testing or treat it as a compliance checkbox at the end of the development cycle. By that point, vulnerabilities have already been deployed to production, exposed to the internet, and available for attackers to discover. NEWORDER takes a fundamentally different approach. We integrate the attacker’s perspective into every stage of application security, combining manual expertise with automated toolsets to deliver thorough, adversary-focused assessments that find what automated scanners cannot.
Accessing expert application security is now easier than ever. From our operational headquarters in Pretoria, South Africa to our global headquarters in the Isle of Man, we are strategically positioned to serve clients across Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. NEWORDER brings a tactical, attacker-centric approach to application security. Our operators are not only testers but trusted advisors, ensuring you do not just receive a report but a clear pathway to improved resilience.
THE NEWORDER APPROACH TO APPLICATION SECURITY
NEWORDER combines manual penetration testing by experienced operators with automated scanning tools to deliver a comprehensive, attacker-focused assessment. Our services cover the full spectrum of application security, from static code analysis to advanced runtime exploitation.
- Static Application Security Testing (SAST) — We analyse your source code, bytecode, and binaries to identify vulnerabilities at the code level before the application is ever deployed. This includes detection of injection flaws, insecure cryptographic implementations, hardcoded credentials, API keys exposed in repositories, and insecure configuration patterns. SAST catches vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle when they are cheapest to fix.
- Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) — We test your running application from the outside, exactly as an attacker would. Our operators interact with every endpoint, form, API call, and authentication flow, sending crafted inputs and payloads designed to expose runtime vulnerabilities that only manifest when the application is live. DAST validates whether the vulnerabilities identified in static analysis are actually exploitable in production.
- Web Application Pen Testing — Our operators manually intercept every request and response in your web application, probing authentication mechanisms, session management, input validation, access controls, file upload handlers, and business logic flows. We go far beyond the OWASP Top 10, targeting application-specific weaknesses that automated tools are fundamentally unable to detect. Every finding is validated through manual exploitation and documented with clear reproduction steps.
- API Security Testing — Modern applications rely on APIs to power mobile apps, third-party integrations, microservices, and single-page applications. We test REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs for authentication bypass, broken object-level authorisation (BOLA), mass assignment vulnerabilities, rate limiting failures, injection attacks, and sensitive data exposure. API vulnerabilities are among the most commonly exploited attack vectors in modern breaches, and automated scanners consistently miss the logic flaws that make them dangerous.
- Mobile Application Security — We test iOS and Android applications against the OWASP Mobile Top 10, including improper credential usage, insecure data storage, insecure communication, insufficient binary protections, and inadequate privacy controls. Our process includes decompilation and reverse engineering of the application binary, analysis of local data storage and keychain usage, interception and analysis of all network communications, and testing of backend API security from the mobile client perspective.
- Business Logic Testing — This is where automated tools fail completely. Business logic vulnerabilities exist in the unique workflows, rules, and processes that your application implements. They cannot be detected by pattern matching or signature-based scanning because they are specific to how your application was designed. Our operators map your application's business logic, identify assumptions made by developers, and systematically test whether those assumptions can be violated to achieve outcomes the application was never intended to allow: price manipulation, privilege escalation, workflow bypass, and data exposure through legitimate application functions.
- Software Composition Analysis (SCA) — Modern applications are built on hundreds of third-party libraries and open-source components. We analyse your software supply chain to identify known vulnerabilities in dependencies, outdated libraries with unpatched CVEs, and licensing risks that could create legal exposure. A single vulnerable dependency can compromise an otherwise well-secured application.
Human-Driven, Not Scanner-Dependent
Automated tools catch generic vulnerabilities but cannot assess custom code, business logic, or context-specific flaws. NEWORDER operators adapt testing methods dynamically based on real-time findings, uncovering vulnerabilities that scanners fundamentally cannot detect.
Tactical Reporting, Not Scanner Dumps
Every engagement delivers two deliverables: an executive summary for leadership with business risk context and prioritised findings, and a technical remediation guide for development teams with reproduction steps and fix recommendations. We do not deliver 200-page automated reports with thousands of unvalidated findings.
SDLC Integration
Security testing should not be a checkbox at the end of development. We work with your development and DevOps teams to integrate security testing into your software development lifecycle, enabling you to catch vulnerabilities during development rather than discovering them in production.
Regulatory Compliance
Our application security testing supports compliance with POPIA, GDPR, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and industry-specific regulatory requirements. Every finding is mapped to the relevant compliance framework so your team can demonstrate due diligence to auditors and regulators.
Zero Operational Disruption
We coordinate closely with your team throughout the testing process, planning phases around your operational needs and performing assessments in a controlled manner that does not disrupt critical systems or production environments.
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
FAQ
SAST analyses your source code without running the application, identifying vulnerabilities at the code level. DAST tests the running application from the outside, simulating real attacks. NEWORDER uses both in combination because SAST finds potential flaws inside the code while DAST confirms which vulnerabilities are actually exploitable at runtime. Together they provide comprehensive coverage that neither approach achieves alone.
Vulnerability scanning is an automated process that identifies known weaknesses based on signatures and patterns. Application penetration testing is a manual, expert-driven process where our operators actively exploit vulnerabilities, chain findings together, and demonstrate real-world business impact. A vulnerability scan tells you what might be wrong. A penetration test proves what an attacker can actually do.
Yes. API security testing is a core component of every web application engagement. Modern applications rely heavily on REST, GraphQL, and SOAP APIs for mobile backends, third-party integrations, and microservice communication. We test for authentication bypass, broken object-level authorisation, mass assignment, injection, rate limiting failures, and sensitive data exposure across all API endpoints.
Timelines depend on the scope and complexity of the application. A focused assessment of a single web application typically takes 1 to 2 weeks. More complex engagements covering multiple applications, APIs, and mobile clients can take 3 to 4 weeks. NEWORDER provides a detailed timeline and scope document before every engagement begins.
NEWORDER performs application testing in your staging or pre-production environment wherever possible. When production testing is required, we coordinate closely with your team and use controlled techniques that do not disrupt normal operations or affect end users.
You receive an executive summary with business risk context and prioritised findings for leadership, a technical report with detailed vulnerability descriptions, CVSS scores, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance for your development team, and a debrief session where our operators walk your team through the findings and answer questions.
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SECURE YOUR APPLICATIONS BEFORE ATTACKERS DO
Contact us for a no-obligation discussion about your application security requirements. From web applications and APIs to mobile apps and business logic, NEWORDER finds what automated scanners miss.