Early prevention of application vulnerabilities is far more secure and cost effective then implementing post-production "band-aid" security fixes. GDS offers Secure Design & Architecture guidance and consulting, as well as developer mentoring and ad-hoc security testing during the code implementation phase. These services help avoid expensive redesign and patchwork coding efforts associated with insecure design and systemic code implementation flaws which are often discovered too late in the development lifecycle.

Secure Design and Architecture Guidance

For an application to be secure it must be designed with security as a primary consideration. Identifying and designing for potential security risks in a large application is a complex task. GDS engineers have performed countless application design and architecture reviews and enjoy providing guidance based on experience.

Threat Modelling

GDS can create or assist in the development of custom Threat Models for selected business critical applications. Threat Models translate technical security attacks and vulnerabilities into descriptions of real-world business risk for use by both company development and management teams. Threat Models are essential tools during application design activities while also providing security teams with guidelines, benchmarks and avenues for input to help encourage secure application development behaviour for all future company applications.

Secure Development Consulting

Development teams rarely have the resources and in-house security knowledge required to consistently achieve secure code implementations. GDS can help to raise the level of security awareness within a development team through providing on-demand knowledge transfer, testing assistance, and secure SDLC consulting. GDS security subject matter experts can immediately address questions, concerns and provide recommendations related to software security and help get secure code out the door on schedule.

GDS is also experienced in tuning existing security tool deployments and building customized security checks and rules to identify symptomatic code specific to an application and/or development team.

If you would like to learn more information about our Secure Development Services, please contact us for more details.