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Engagement Tier

Application Security Assessment

The Application Security Assessment is Strata's primary commercial engagement — a structured, engineer-led review that goes beyond what automated scanning alone can surface. It combines source code review with authentication, authorization, dependency, secrets, and configuration analysis, reported with clear risk prioritization and a remediation roadmap.

Typically $3,000–$6,000

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Best Fit

Who This Is Built For

  • Growing SaaS and software companies preparing for an enterprise customer's security questionnaire or vendor review
  • Teams that want a second set of expert eyes beyond continuous automated scanning
  • Organizations establishing a security baseline before a major release or funding milestone
  • Engineering teams without a dedicated in-house security function
Scope

Typical Engagement Scope

Engagements are scoped collaboratively — this describes typical coverage, not a fixed checklist applied uniformly.

Typically Included

  • Source code review
  • OWASP-aligned findings
  • Authentication and authorization review
  • Dependency and secrets review
  • Configuration review

May Be Included, Depending on Scope

  • Application architecture observations
  • A formal executive presentation and developer walkthrough
  • A follow-up remediation validation review

Outside This Engagement

  • Mobile reverse engineering (part of the Product Security Assessment)
  • Infrastructure or network penetration testing
  • Ongoing or continuous monitoring — this is a point-in-time engagement
Deliverables

Representative Deliverables

Executive reporting
Technical findings
Risk prioritization
Remediation roadmap

Deliverables reflect agreed scope — not every engagement includes every item. See the full deliverables breakdown on the Services hub.

Process

Assessment Process

  1. Discovery

    An initial conversation about the application, goals, and constraints.

  2. Scope Definition

    Engagement scope, tier, and boundaries are agreed in writing before work begins.

  3. Kickoff

    Access, authorization, and points of contact are confirmed with the client.

  4. Assessment

    Manual and tool-assisted review of the authorized application, repository, or artifact.

  5. Engineering Review

    Findings are validated and prioritized by the engineer who performed the assessment.

  6. Report Preparation

    Executive and technical findings are documented with evidence and remediation guidance.

  7. Executive Briefing

    Business risk and priorities are presented to stakeholders in plain language.

  8. Developer Walkthrough

    Technical findings are reviewed directly with the engineering team.

  9. Optional Validation

    A follow-up review to confirm remediation, scoped and scheduled separately.

For the full engineering practice behind every engagement, see the Methodology page.

FAQ

Common Questions

No — it complements it. Automated scanning is fast, repeatable, and continuous; this engagement adds the architectural judgment and manual validation a human engineer contributes, which is a genuinely different kind of coverage.
Yes, typically read access to the relevant repository or repositories, scoped to what's agreed for the engagement. Access requirements are confirmed during scoping, before work begins.
No. Scope is tailored to the application and goals during project planning — the list above describes what this tier typically covers, not a fixed checklist applied uniformly.
Findings are grouped and sequenced by priority and dependency, so engineering teams have a concrete order of operations rather than an unordered list of issues.
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