Source Code Review

Why Your Business Needs This

Penetration testing finds approximately 40-60% of security vulnerabilities because it tests from the outside — it can only find what is exposed and exploitable through the application's interfaces. Source code review finds vulnerabilities that are hidden deep in the code — cryptographic weaknesses, race conditions in transaction processing, insecure random number generation, hardcoded credentials, and flawed authentication logic.

For Indian fintech and healthcare applications processing sensitive data, source code review is particularly valuable because it can identify data handling violations — places where Aadhaar numbers, UPI credentials, or patient data are logged, stored insecurely, or transmitted without proper encryption. These findings are often invisible to penetration testing but represent significant regulatory compliance risks.

SAST tools alone generate hundreds of findings with high false positive rates — typically 40-60% of automated findings are false positives. Our manual review filters out false positives and focuses on the findings that represent real, exploitable vulnerabilities in your specific context.

Our Approach

Repository Setup (Day 1): We set up secure access to your code repository. Your code never leaves your infrastructure — we work within your environment or on an isolated, encrypted analysis system.

Automated Analysis (Day 1-3): We run multiple SAST tools across your codebase to identify potential vulnerabilities — injection flaws, XSS, insecure deserialization, hardcoded secrets, weak cryptography, and known vulnerable dependencies.

Manual Expert Review (Day 3-10): Our security engineers manually review critical code paths — authentication, authorisation, payment processing, data handling, cryptographic operations, and business logic. We focus on the areas SAST tools consistently miss.

Finding Validation and Reporting (Day 10-14): Every automated finding is manually validated to eliminate false positives. Confirmed findings are documented with the specific code location, explanation of the vulnerability, exploitation scenario, and remediation code example.

Developer Walkthrough (Day 14-15): We conduct a walkthrough session with your development team — explaining each finding, demonstrating the risk, and discussing secure coding practices to prevent similar issues in future development.