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You inherited a mess and don’t know where to start. We do. An independent audit gives you a clear picture and a roadmap to fix it.
Most businesses don’t know the real state of their software. The previous developer is gone. The documentation is outdated or nonexistent. And nobody wants to touch the code because nobody knows what it does.
A software security audit changes that. We review your codebase independently not to sell you a rewrite, but to give you an honest assessment of what you have, what the real risks are, and what a smart path forward looks like.
Our audits go beyond a checkbox report. You get actionable findings with clear next steps.
Deep review of your application code: architecture, maintainability, performance, and technical debt. We tell you what’s solid and what needs attention.
We scan your environment and code for vulnerabilities in cloud, on-prem, endpoints, and network — including the OWASP Top 10. Every risk is ranked by severity and likelihood.
Not just “here’s what’s broken.” A prioritized plan for what to fix first, what to modernize next, and what the cost and timeline look like for each step.
Every finding gets a clear risk score: severity, likelihood, and business impact. So you know exactly where to focus your budget and attention.
If your industry has regulatory requirements (HIPAA, PCI-DSS, SOC 2), we flag gaps against the specific framework that applies to you.
The audit doesn’t end with a report. We build a remediation plan and can execute the fixes ourselves or guide your team through them.
Four situations where an independent code review pays for itself before the first fix is made.
The original developer is gone. Documentation is sparse or nonexistent. Nobody on the current team knows exactly what the system does or what happens if you change the wrong thing. Before you touch anything, know what you have.
If the company you’re acquiring runs on custom software, that software is part of what you’re buying. Technical due diligence is as important as financial due diligence. Know the technical debt, the security exposure, and the modernization cost before you sign.
A full rewrite is expensive — often $200K or more. An audit tells you whether that’s the right call or whether targeted improvements would cost a fraction and accomplish the same outcome. It’s the $15K question that prevents a $200K mistake.
A customer asked for SOC 2. A regulator is asking about HIPAA. Your team had an incident and you need to understand the full exposure. Getting your own findings before the auditor or the attacker does is always the better position to be in.
Most software audits we run lead to modernization projects. That’s not a coincidence, it’s because once you can see clearly what you have, the path forward becomes obvious.
But we give you the truth first. If the audit says “your system is actually fine, just needs some security patches,” then that’s what we’ll tell you. We don’t manufacture problems to sell solutions.
When modernization does make sense, the audit becomes the blueprint. You already know exactly what to build, what to migrate, and what it will cost before you spend a dollar on development.
A client was two weeks from closing on a small SaaS company. The acquisition price was just over $1.2M. Their attorney recommended technical due diligence. We were brought in to audit the codebase before they signed.
The application was built on a PHP framework that had gone end-of-life 18 months earlier — no security patches, no maintenance path. Customer data was being written to unencrypted log files accessible at a predictable URL. The entire production environment ran on a single server with no documented backup procedure. None of this was disclosed.
The client used the findings to negotiate a $220K price reduction and a holdback clause requiring the seller to fund remediation before the final payment released. The audit cost $14K. The deal still closed — but on completely different terms, with full visibility into what they were actually buying.
A focused security assessment or code quality review typically takes 1–2 weeks. A comprehensive audit covering code quality, security, architecture, and compliance across a larger system runs 3–4 weeks. The main variable is codebase size and complexity. We scope it during an initial call before you commit to anything.
For code quality and architecture reviews, access to the repository is sufficient. For security assessments, we test against a staging environment that mirrors production — not production itself. We work with whatever access level you’re comfortable with and adjust the scope of findings accordingly.
Yes — this is one of the most common situations we audit. Undocumented codebases take longer to assess, but that’s the point: you need someone who can read what’s actually there, not what the documentation says. We work from source code directly, without relying on what someone tells us the system does.
Yes. Remediation is a separate engagement from the audit, but we can do it — and many clients prefer to work with the same team that found the issues. The audit findings become the project scope, so you know exactly what’s being fixed and why before any work begins. We can also hand the remediation plan to your internal team or another vendor if you prefer.
A focused code review or security assessment typically runs $5–12K depending on codebase size and scope. A comprehensive audit covering code quality, security, architecture, and compliance runs $15–30K. We provide a fixed-scope estimate after an initial call — not a range that expands mid-engagement.
A 30-minute scoping call is all it takes to understand what a software audit looks like for your specific codebase. No commitment.
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