Secure Code Review Perth

Nano Solutions performs secure code reviews for Perth businesses — manual line-by-line review by senior engineers, augmented with SAST tooling (Semgrep, SonarQube, Snyk Code). We map findings to OWASP ASVS Levels 1–3, OWASP Top 10, and CWE identifiers, with CVSS v3.1 scoring and step-by-step remediation guidance. Established 2013, part of our broader App Security capability.

Protect Your Applications with Comprehensive Code Analysis

Overview

With cyber threats on the rise, securing your software applications has never been more critical. One of the most effective ways to prevent vulnerabilities is through a Secure Code Review. At Nano Solutions, we offer in-depth code review services to help you identify and address potential security risks before they can impact your business.

Our experts carefully examine your source code to uncover any vulnerabilities, enhance software quality, and ensure compliance with industry standards. With our secure code review services, Perth businesses can better protect their applications from cyber threats, reduce the risk of data breaches, and strengthen overall system security.

What Is Secure Code Review?

Secure code review is the process of analysing your source code to detect security vulnerabilities, coding errors, and weaknesses that could be exploited by malicious actors. Using a combination of automated tools and manual assessments, we ensure comprehensive coverage. At Nano Solutions, our secure code review process helps businesses catch and fix security flaws early in the development cycle, ensuring your software is robust and secure from day one.

Benefits of Nano Solutions' Secure Code Review Services

Early Detection of Vulnerabilities

Spot and address security issues early on, reducing the risk of breaches before they can affect your business.

Enhanced Code Quality

Improve the overall quality of your software by identifying coding errors and optimising performance.

Compliance Assurance

Keep your software aligned with industry standards such as OWASP, ISO 27001, and GDPR.

Reduced Costs

Fixing security issues during development is far more cost-effective than handling them post-deployment.

Local Expertise in Perth

Our team's deep understanding of cybersecurity and secure coding practices is tailored to meet the needs of Perth businesses.

Our Secure Code Review Services

At Nano Solutions, we offer a suite of secure code review services designed to protect your software and ensure compliance with industry standards:

Static Code Analysis

We use automated tools to detect vulnerabilities, security weaknesses, and code quality issues quickly and efficiently.

Manual Code Review

Our security experts conduct a deep dive into your code to catch flaws that automated tools might overlook.

Compliance Checks

We assess your code against industry standards and best practices to ensure regulatory compliance and robust security.

Remediation Guidance

Our team provides clear, actionable recommendations on how to fix vulnerabilities and improve your code's security.

Continuous Monitoring

With ongoing code review services, we help you keep your software secure as it evolves.

Why Choose Nano Solutions for Secure Code Review?

Proven Expertise

Our team of security professionals has extensive experience in identifying and fixing code vulnerabilities.

Comprehensive Approach

We combine the power of automated tools with the precision of manual analysis for a thorough codebase review.

Tailored Solutions

We understand that each business is unique. Our services are customised to meet your specific security needs.

Local Support in Perth

Enjoy personalised, hands-on support with fast response times from our Perth-based team.

Continuous Security

We offer ongoing code reviews and support to ensure your applications stay secure over time.

Understanding the OWASP Top 10

The OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top 10 is the most widely recognised standard for web application security risks. Our secure code reviews systematically assess your application against each of these categories to ensure comprehensive coverage.

A01: Broken Access Control

Access control failures allow users to act outside their intended permissions. We review your code for missing authorisation checks, insecure direct object references, path traversal vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation opportunities. This includes verifying that server-side access control logic cannot be bypassed by manipulating client-side requests, and that role-based permissions are enforced consistently across all application endpoints.

A02: Cryptographic Failures

Previously known as sensitive data exposure, this category covers weaknesses in how your application protects data at rest and in transit. We check for use of deprecated encryption algorithms, hardcoded encryption keys, improper certificate validation, and insufficient protection of sensitive data fields such as passwords, credit card numbers, and personal health information.

A03: Injection

Injection attacks, including SQL injection, NoSQL injection, OS command injection, and LDAP injection, remain one of the most dangerous vulnerability classes. We examine every point where user input interacts with interpreters, databases, or operating system commands, verifying that parameterised queries, input validation, and output encoding are properly implemented throughout your codebase.

A04: Insecure Design

Unlike implementation bugs, insecure design represents fundamental architectural flaws that cannot be fixed by perfect code alone. Our review evaluates your application's threat model, business logic flows, and security architecture to identify design-level weaknesses such as missing rate limiting on authentication endpoints, inadequate separation of privilege, and insufficient abuse case handling.

A05-A10: Additional Risk Categories

Our reviews also cover security misconfiguration (default credentials, unnecessary features, verbose error messages), vulnerable and outdated components (dependency scanning and supply chain analysis), identification and authentication failures (weak password policies, missing multi-factor authentication, session management flaws), software and data integrity failures (insecure deserialization, insufficient code signing), security logging and monitoring failures (inadequate audit trails, missing intrusion detection), and server-side request forgery (SSRF vulnerabilities that can be exploited to access internal services).

Automated vs Manual Review: A Layered Approach

Effective secure code review requires both automated tooling and expert manual analysis. Each approach catches different types of vulnerabilities, and relying on either one alone leaves significant gaps in your security coverage.

Static Application Security Testing (SAST)

SAST tools analyse your source code without executing it, scanning for known vulnerability patterns, insecure coding practices, and deviations from security coding standards. These tools excel at finding common issues at scale: SQL injection, cross-site scripting, buffer overflows, and hardcoded secrets. We use SAST to establish a baseline across your entire codebase quickly, identifying the most obvious issues before our security engineers begin manual analysis.

However, SAST tools generate false positives and cannot understand business logic context. A SAST tool might flag a database query as potentially vulnerable to injection without understanding that the input has already been validated upstream. Our engineers triage automated findings to separate genuine risks from false alarms, saving your development team from chasing non-issues.

Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST)

DAST tools test your running application from the outside, sending crafted requests and analysing responses to identify vulnerabilities that only manifest at runtime. This approach catches issues that static analysis misses, including authentication flaws, session management weaknesses, and server configuration problems. We use DAST as a complement to static analysis, testing your application in conditions that closely mirror real-world attack scenarios.

Manual Expert Review

The most critical vulnerabilities, particularly business logic flaws, authorisation bypasses, and race conditions, can only be found through manual review by experienced security engineers. Our reviewers understand how attackers think and systematically probe your code for weaknesses that automated tools cannot detect. This includes reviewing authentication flows for edge cases, testing authorisation logic against privilege escalation scenarios, and examining data validation logic for bypasses.

We also review your code for security anti-patterns that are technically functional but create unnecessary risk: overly broad exception handling that masks errors, logging practices that might expose sensitive data, and dependency usage patterns that increase your attack surface. Manual review brings the contextual understanding and adversarial mindset that machines cannot replicate.

Software Composition Analysis (SCA)

Modern applications rely heavily on third-party libraries and frameworks, and vulnerabilities in these components are a major attack vector. Our software composition analysis identifies all third-party dependencies in your project, checks them against known vulnerability databases, and assesses the risk posed by each finding. We also evaluate your dependency management practices, checking for pinned versions, update policies, and the use of dependency lock files.

Compliance Frameworks and Regulatory Requirements

For many Perth businesses, secure code review is not just good practice but a regulatory requirement. We align our review methodology with the compliance frameworks relevant to your industry.

ISO 27001

ISO 27001 is the international standard for information security management systems. Annex A of the standard includes controls specifically related to secure development practices, including secure coding guidelines, security testing, and change management. Our code reviews generate evidence that supports your ISO 27001 certification or recertification, documenting the security controls present in your codebase and identifying gaps that need to be addressed.

SOC 2

SOC 2 compliance is increasingly demanded by enterprise customers, particularly for SaaS providers and organisations that handle sensitive client data. The security, availability, and confidentiality trust service criteria all have implications for how your code handles data protection, access control, and system monitoring. Our review reports map directly to SOC 2 requirements, making it straightforward for your auditors to verify compliance.

Australian Privacy Act and Notifiable Data Breaches Scheme

Australian businesses that handle personal information are subject to the Privacy Act 1988 and the Notifiable Data Breaches scheme. A data breach caused by a known, unpatched vulnerability in your application code can result in significant regulatory consequences. Our reviews help you demonstrate that you have taken reasonable steps to protect personal information, which is a key element of the Privacy Act's requirements.

PCI DSS

Organisations that process, store, or transmit credit card data must comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. PCI DSS Requirement 6 specifically mandates secure coding practices, including code review for custom application code. Our reviews satisfy this requirement and provide the documentation needed for your PCI DSS assessment.

Essential Eight

The Australian Signals Directorate's Essential Eight maturity model includes application hardening and patching as key mitigation strategies. Our secure code reviews identify vulnerabilities that patching alone cannot address, helping you achieve higher maturity levels across the Essential Eight framework.

The Remediation Workflow

Finding vulnerabilities is only half the job. What matters is fixing them efficiently and verifying that the fixes are effective. Our remediation workflow provides a clear path from discovery to resolution.

Prioritised Findings Report

Every finding is classified by severity (critical, high, medium, low) and assigned a risk score based on exploitability, impact, and the sensitivity of the affected data. Critical and high-severity findings are flagged for immediate attention, while lower-severity issues are grouped into a prioritised backlog that your development team can address systematically.

Actionable Remediation Guidance

For each finding, we provide specific, actionable remediation guidance that includes the vulnerable code, an explanation of the risk, and concrete code examples showing how to fix the issue. We do not simply point out problems and leave your developers to figure out solutions. Our guidance is written for developers, with practical code snippets and framework-specific recommendations that can be implemented directly.

Developer Workshops

For organisations with recurring vulnerability patterns, we offer targeted developer workshops that address the root causes. These workshops cover secure coding practices specific to your technology stack, common vulnerability patterns we identified during the review, and practical techniques for writing more secure code. Investing in developer education reduces the number of vulnerabilities introduced in future development cycles.

Verification and Retesting

After your team has implemented the recommended fixes, we perform verification testing to confirm that each vulnerability has been properly addressed and that the remediation has not introduced new issues. This retesting phase provides assurance that your application is genuinely more secure, not just superficially patched.

Perth Business Compliance Context

Perth businesses operate in a regulatory environment that increasingly demands demonstrable software security practices. Western Australian government agencies and large enterprises now routinely require their software suppliers to provide evidence of secure development practices, including code review reports, as part of procurement and vendor assessment processes.

The Western Australian government's Digital Services Policy emphasises secure by design principles, and organisations bidding for government contracts are expected to demonstrate that their software has undergone security review. Mining companies operating under WA's safety regulations increasingly extend their compliance requirements to the software systems that support safety-critical operations.

For Perth-based SaaS companies selling to interstate or international customers, demonstrating that your code has been independently reviewed for security vulnerabilities is a competitive advantage. Enterprise buyers, particularly in financial services, healthcare, and government, expect their vendors to provide security assurance documentation as part of the procurement process. Our review reports are designed to satisfy these requirements and give your sales team credible evidence of your security posture.

How Secure Code Review Supports Business Security

Implementing secure code review is crucial for businesses committed to protecting their applications from cyber threats. By catching vulnerabilities early, you can safeguard sensitive data, reduce the risk of costly breaches, and maintain customer trust. Nano Solutions helps Perth businesses keep their software secure, compliant, and resilient so you can focus on growth with confidence.

Industries We Serve

Our secure code review services are designed to meet the needs of a wide range of industries, ensuring your software remains safe and compliant:

• Healthcare: Safeguard patient data and maintain compliance with HIPAA and other vital regulations.
• Finance: Protect financial transactions and ensure adherence to PCI DSS standards for secure operations.
• E-commerce: Secure online transactions and protect sensitive customer information to maintain trust.
• Logistics: Strengthen software security within supply chain management systems for smooth, safe operations.
• Retail: Protect POS systems and customer data from cyber threats, ensuring a secure shopping experience.

Get Started with Nano Solutions

Safeguard your applications with Nano Solutions' in-depth Secure Code Review services. Contact us today for a consultation to evaluate your software security needs and explore how we can help protect your business from potential threats.

Nano Solutions - Your Trusted Partner for Secure Code Review in Perth

Rely on our expert code review services to eliminate vulnerabilities, enhance code quality, and ensure compliance with industry standards. Let us help you secure your applications so you can focus on what matters—growing your business.