43% of Cyberattacks Target Small Businesses. Is Your Web Application Ready?

Verizon's DBIR found that nearly half of all breaches target small and mid-sized businesses. We implement multi-layered security hardening that protects your application, your data, and your customers from the threats most development teams overlook.

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43%

of cyberattacks target small businesses, which often lack the security infrastructure of larger organizations

Verizon DBIR, 2023

Security Hardening

Multi-layered security implementation including encryption, authentication hardening, input validation, dependency scanning, and vulnerability patching to protect your web application against real-world attack vectors.

What's Included

Everything you get with our Security Hardening

Security Audit and Vulnerability Report

Comprehensive assessment of your application's attack surface including OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, misconfigured headers, and exposed endpoints

Hardened Authentication System

Multi-factor authentication, secure session management, password hashing with bcrypt/argon2, and brute-force protection implemented and tested

Ongoing Dependency Monitoring

Automated scanning of your dependency tree for known vulnerabilities with alerts and remediation guidance when new CVEs are published

Our Security Hardening Process

Security Audit and Threat Modeling

We map your application's attack surface, review authentication flows, test for OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities, scan dependencies for known CVEs, and assess your infrastructure configuration. You receive a prioritized vulnerability report with severity ratings.

Critical Vulnerability Remediation

We fix the highest-severity issues first: patching known CVEs, parameterizing database queries, implementing CSRF tokens, adding Content Security Policy headers, and securing exposed endpoints. These changes address immediate risk.

Defense-in-Depth Implementation

We add layered protections: WAF configuration, rate limiting, encrypted secrets management, role-based access controls, secure session handling, and comprehensive audit logging so that a failure in one layer does not compromise the entire application.

Monitoring and Incident Response Planning

We deploy security monitoring with real-time alerting, set up automated dependency scanning in your CI/CD pipeline, and document an incident response procedure so your team knows exactly what to do if a security event occurs.

Key Benefits

Protection against the OWASP Top 10

We systematically address the most exploited web application vulnerabilities: injection attacks, broken authentication, sensitive data exposure, XML external entities, broken access control, security misconfigurations, XSS, insecure deserialization, vulnerable components, and insufficient logging.

Compliance readiness without the overhead

Our security measures align with SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, and PCI DSS requirements. While we do not replace a compliance audit, we implement the technical controls that auditors look for, making your compliance process faster and less expensive.

Continuous vulnerability monitoring

Security is not a one-time fix. We set up automated dependency scanning, header validation, and penetration testing schedules so that new vulnerabilities in your dependencies or infrastructure are caught and patched before attackers find them.

Research & Evidence

Backed by industry research and proven results

Data Breach Investigations Report

43% of cyberattacks target small businesses, with web application attacks being among the most common vectors

Verizon DBIR (2023)

Relative Cost of Fixing Defects

Security vulnerabilities found in production cost 6x more to fix than those caught during the design phase

IBM Systems Sciences Institute (2008)

Frequently Asked Questions

How do we know if our web application has security vulnerabilities?

Most do. Our security audit includes automated vulnerability scanning, manual code review for common flaws, dependency analysis for known CVEs, and infrastructure configuration review. We provide a detailed report with severity ratings and prioritized remediation steps. Many clients discover critical vulnerabilities they were not aware of.

Is security hardening a one-time project or ongoing?

Both. The initial engagement identifies and fixes existing vulnerabilities, but security requires ongoing attention. New CVEs are published daily, and every code change can introduce new attack vectors. We offer ongoing monitoring retainers that include dependency scanning, periodic penetration testing, and rapid response to newly disclosed vulnerabilities.

Will security hardening slow down our application?

No. Properly implemented security measures have negligible performance impact. Input validation, parameterized queries, and CSP headers add microseconds to request processing. The only security measure with measurable performance overhead is encryption, and modern hardware handles TLS so efficiently that the impact is undetectable to users.

Do we need security hardening if we use a managed platform like Vercel or Heroku?

Yes. Managed platforms secure the infrastructure layer, but your application code, authentication logic, API endpoints, and dependencies are still your responsibility. The Verizon DBIR shows that application-level attacks are far more common than infrastructure attacks. Platform hosting protects the server; security hardening protects the application running on it.

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