Application Standards Testing
Customer security reviews, enterprise deals, and regulators increasingly ask the same question: does your application meet a recognized security standard? Z Cyber's Application Standards Testing evaluates your application against a defined standard - scoped to your architecture from sources such as OWASP ASVS and your customers' requirements - across authentication, session management, access control, data protection, input handling, logging, and secure configuration. Findings come back severity-ranked with remediation guidance written for engineers, and the whole exercise is tracked in our AI-native GRC platform so retests close the loop.
What's Included
Standards scoping matched to your architecture and customer requirements
Control-by-control evaluation across the agreed standard
Severity-ranked findings with engineering-level remediation guidance
Secure SDLC observations and recommendations
Retest and verification of remediated findings
Customer-facing summary for security reviews
The team behind every engagement
Executive Security Advisor
Approves the standard scoping, reviews findings, and signs the report.
Senior Security Consultant
Leads the control evaluation and works directly with your engineering team.
Security Analyst
Documents findings, tracks remediation, and runs retests to closure.
AI-Native GRC Platform
Houses the findings register, remediation status, and the evidence trail for customer reviews.
Who This Is For
Product companies facing enterprise customer security reviews, teams preparing for SOC 2 with application-layer scope, and engineering organizations that want an actionable standard rather than a generic scan report.
Our Process
Scope
Agree the standard and control set against your architecture, data sensitivity, and customer commitments.
Test
Evaluate each in-scope control through configuration review, code and design walkthroughs, and hands-on verification.
Report
Deliver severity-ranked findings with remediation guidance your engineers can pick up without translation.
Retest
Verify fixes, close findings in the register, and issue the customer-facing summary.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this a penetration test?
No, and it pairs well with one. A penetration test hunts for exploitable paths. Standards testing verifies your application controls against a defined benchmark, which is what customer security reviews and framework audits actually ask for. Together they cover both questions.
Which standards do you test against?
Scoping typically draws on OWASP ASVS, framework requirements you already carry (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001), and specific commitments in your customer contracts. The final control set is agreed before testing starts.
Do you need source code access?
Deeper lanes of the evaluation benefit from code and design walkthroughs with your engineers, but scoping adapts to what you can share. Every conclusion records the evidence lane it came from.
Can we share the results with customers?
Yes. The engagement produces a customer-facing summary designed for security reviews: scope, standard, methodology, and posture, without exposing internal detail.
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Ready to see where you actually stand?
Book a 30-minute briefing with the team that would run your program. We'll assess your needs, scope the right engagement, and follow up with a fixed-fee proposal - no pressure, no generic pitches.
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