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Application Security Labs

Application security
for engineering teams.

A lab that combines specialized consulting, technical research and product development. Engagements with defined scope, method and deliverables, from assessment to real attack.

What we do Consulting · Research · Product
Domains Web · API · LLM · Supply chain
What we solve

Three simultaneous problems. One answer.

The application layer is now the biggest attack vector. And whoever needs to protect it faces three limitations at once.

PROBLEM · 01

Teams can't find the talent.

AppSec demands mastery of both security and development. It's a rare, contested and expensive profile. Hiring internally takes 9 to 14 months.

PROBLEM · 02

Tools generate backlog without context.

SAST, DAST and SCA pile up findings with no business prioritization. Too many alerts, too little action. Dev teams ignore what matters.

PROBLEM · 03

Security can't keep up.

Dev teams ship fast. Security shows up at retest, or not at all. The result is security debt accumulating between sprints.

Professional services

From diagnosis to implementation.

We measure maturity, deliver the roadmap and put engineers in to execute it. We validate with real attack and train your team to sustain it.

Diagnosis

Every assessment delivers an executive report, a maturity score and a living roadmap your team updates and watches evolve.

01

AppSec Maturity Assessment

The maturity of your AppSec program measured with OWASP SAMM. Score per practice, gaps against the target level and a living roadmap with quick wins and structural priorities.
02

AI Security Maturity Assessment

How ready your team is to build with AI. Security maturity across LLM flows, agents and copilots, with an OWASP framework and a dedicated roadmap.
03

Threat Modeling

Hands-on workshops with product and engineering to map threats by scenario, including LLM flows, and turn real business risk into a prioritized backlog.
04

Software Supply Chain Assessment

The risk of dependencies and build provenance in your critical projects. SCA with exploitability context, CycloneDX SBOM and a remediation roadmap.
Related product: eflag Supply Chain Guard →
05

Pipeline & Platform Assessment

An X-ray of GitHub, GitLab or your git platform, and of CI/CD pipelines: branch protection, automations, secrets and security gates. A hardening roadmap focused on signal, not noise.
Related product: eflag Review →
Add-on

Regulated institutions

Optional add-on for any assessment, for teams that answer to regulators: we map findings to Bacen (CMN 5.274 / BCB 538), ISO 27001 and PCI DSS 4.0. The technical roadmap doubles as your regulatory compliance plan.
Implementation

Traditional consulting hands over the report and leaves. We stay to build.

06

AppSec Engineering

Our engineers join your flow to execute the roadmap: SAST, SCA and secret scanning gates in CI/CD, vulnerability fixes, repository hardening, SBOM automation, AI guardrails. Technical execution, not spreadsheet tracking.
Validation

After building, we prove it withstands attack.

07

Expert Pentest · Web · API · LLM

Pentesting by people who also build software. Business logic, authentication, authorization, exploit chains and attacks on LLM applications. It satisfies the auditor's requirement, but it was designed to find what scanners miss.
08

Secure Code Review

Manual review of critical code by engineers who write code: authentication, authorization, cryptography, integrations and AI-generated code. Where SAST can't reach.
Training
09

Developer Training

Hands-on training in what we specialize in: secure coding in your stack, OWASP Top 10, API security, supply chain and development with LLMs and copilots. With code, not generic slides.
Research fronts

Where the market has no consolidated answer yet.

Two applied research fronts that back our services and products. What we discover in the lab becomes engagement methodology.

Supply Chain Security

Visibility into what goes into the build.

Attacks on the development chain keep growing and the ecosystem still responds case by case. We research malicious package detection, build provenance and pipeline governance. That research is what backs the Software Supply Chain Assessment and eflag Supply Chain Guard.

  • Typosquatting and malicious package detection
  • Build provenance and SLSA Level 2/3
  • CycloneDX SBOM at scale
  • Repository and GitHub Actions governance
AI Security

Protection for those who use LLMs, and for those who build with them.

Two sides of the same problem: applications that use generative AI and teams that develop with copilots. Research on this front feeds the AI Security Maturity Assessment, threat modeling of LLM flows and pentesting of LLM applications.

  • Threat modeling of LLM flows
  • Guardrails for agents with tool access
  • Safe copilot usage policies for dev teams
  • Context window exfiltration assessment
Research & development

Consulting that runs like a laboratory.

The intelligence we accumulate serving clients feeds directly into our R&D work. Every client makes us better at spotting patterns. Every pattern becomes research, tooling or product.

Operating model · continuous cycle
Step 01 of 05

Services

Consulting engagements: maturity assessments, threat modeling, AppSec Engineering, pentesting. Projects with defined scope and deliverables.

It's a cycle, not a straight line. Unlike pure product companies, we know exactly what pain the client feels, because we're with them day to day.

Why now

Regulatory compliance is no longer optional.

Brazilian regulators and international standards converge on requiring auditable secure development. Those who wait pay in rework.

ISO/IEC 27001 · Annex A.14
Secure development policy integrated into the SDLC. Environment separation and code review as mandatory controls.
In force
PCI DSS 4.0 · Requirement 6
Explicit SSDLC as a requirement. Version 4.0 removes the recommended-best-practice category. It becomes mandatory.
In force
BACEN CMN 5.274 · BCB 538
Mandatory annual pentest of exposed applications, vulnerability management and a proactive model for regulated institutions.
March 2026

The same frameworks as the assessments' regulatory add-on: with the mapping included, the technical roadmap is born as a compliance plan. See diagnosis services →

Market · 2024 → 2033

The demand is already here.

Public data consolidated from market reports and industry sources.

$53B
Global AppSec market projected for 2033
Fortune Business Insights, 2024
76%
Companies report a critical AppSec talent shortage
ISC² Cybersecurity Workforce Study, 2024
45%
Of 2024 breaches involved an application vulnerability
Verizon DBIR, 2024
16%
Projected annual growth for the sector through 2033
Fortune Business Insights, 2024

Ready to start with a diagnosis?

15 minutes with a specialist. No pre-sales, no generic deck. We understand your cycle and propose the first step.