As attackers grow more sophisticated, targeting the applications themselves has become the new frontline of defense. Application security focuses on vulnerabilities within the application code itself, not just the surrounding systems and configurations.
Our specialized testing combines automated scans with expert manual analysis to uncover hidden flaws in web applications. We believe a "white-box" approach, using source code access, delivers the most thorough results.
While automated scans are a good starting point, they often miss the critical vulnerabilities that hackers exploit. Our experts manually probe your web applications, uncovering hidden weaknesses like privilege escalation and logic flaws that automated tools simply can't detect.
Mobile apps expand your attack surface. We rigorously analyze iOS and Android applications, examining everything from local storage to transport security, ensuring your mobile presence is as secure as your web platform.
Our experts manually review your application's source code, line by line, and also use automated tools (Static Application Security Testing or SAST) to identify vulnerabilities. We prioritize critical areas like user logins and data protection, ensuring your code is fortified against attacks.
Reviewing the design, architecture, and configuration of applications early on in the process can eliminate many vulnerabilities before they reach the production environment. Lares can help with the application design process and ensure that the environments they’ll be deployed are implemented securely. This is achieved by reviewing the proposed architecture and design for an application and comparing that against security best practices.
The cloud offers flexibility and cost savings, but misconfigurations can expose your data to serious risks. We specialize in securing major cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Our experts ensure your cloud environment is set up and managed with the highest security standards, safeguarding sensitive information.
Embedded systems, such as ATMs, Point-of-Sale (POS) systems, and other similar systems, often run scaled-down, customized, or proprietary Operating Systems. A breach of these systems can seriously affect the company and their customers. Testing these systems requires a particularly special set of skills to look at the system as a whole, from both the hardware, network, and application layer. Lares is well versed in performing these types of assessments with our team of specialists.
IoT devices offer convenience and efficiency, but they also introduce new security risks to your network. Our experts understand the unique challenges of securing IoT, and we'll assess your devices from the hardware up to the applications they run, ensuring comprehensive protection against cyber threats.
Our product security reviews examine every layer of your product, from the hardware to the user interface (using the OSI model, a framework for understanding network communication). This holistic approach ensures your product is secure from end to end, giving you a competitive edge and protecting your customers.
The earlier you catch a problem, the easier and cheaper it is to fix. We help you embed security into your development process (DevSecOps), identifying and fixing vulnerabilities before they reach production, saving you time and money.
Critical infrastructure like power grids and manufacturing plants rely on Industrial Control Systems (ICS) and SCADA systems. These systems are often older and more vulnerable, demanding specialized security expertise. Our team has extensive experience in carefully assessing and securing these vital systems, ensuring they remain operational while protecting them from security attacks.
On rare occasions, it is necessary to decompile opaque binaries, whether they are malware or closed-source applications that are no longer supported. Lares has the expertise to tear an application apart and analyze it at a very low-level to discover its functionality and true intentions. Where possible, Lares can even modify and recompile these applications to bypass functionality or add additional functionality.
Lares can help design, build, execute, and staff application security teams from the ground up. With the current shortage of highly experienced talent in information security, the Lares team offers access to its extensive network of highly trained application security experts. Each candidate provided will pass a stringent background check and thorough technical review. Each employee will be held to the same stringent standards as all Lares engineers to ensure our staffing equals or exceeds the best of industry providers.
We ensure your applications are secure from development through deployment, safeguarding your business from real-world adversarial threats. Don’t leave your security to chance—schedule a consultation with Lares today and take the first step toward robust application protection.
Using a culture of security as a baseline, Word & Brown achieved compliance because of its security journey — not in spite of it.
Lares is a security consulting firm that helps companies secure electronic, physical, intellectual, and financial assets through a unique blend of assessment, testing, and coaching since 2008.
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