Find security defects where they begin.
Manual, context-aware source code review that identifies vulnerabilities scanners miss and helps engineering teams build safer software.
What is Secure Code Review?
Manual, context-aware source code review that identifies vulnerabilities scanners miss and helps engineering teams build safer software.
Hackstack Security delivers it as a scoped, agentic engagement: AI agents on local and client-approved API models expand coverage, our specialists test the logic and attack chains agents miss, and every finding is validated by a human, explained in business terms, and retested after you fix it.
- AI agents plus manual testers
- Human-validated findings only
- Retest and closure status included
What outcomes should you expect?
Every engagement is designed around the risk your team needs to understand and the action it needs to take.
Reduced defect escape rate
Actionable code-level fixes
Secure-by-design engineering
What does secure code review testing cover?
Proven methodology plus the judgment needed to uncover context-specific risk.
Manual source review
Authentication and authorization review
Input handling and injection analysis
Cryptography and secrets review
SAST finding validation
Secure coding guidance
When should you run secure code review testing?
Test before a finding turns into a release delay, a customer escalation, or an incident.
Before a major launch, migration, or architecture change
When enterprise customers or partners request security evidence
After meaningful changes to identity, data, integrations, or infrastructure
When your team needs an independent view of real-world risk
Which questions do we test?
Frameworks support consistent coverage. The assessment remains driven by your architecture, trust boundaries, threat model, and business workflows.
- Can a compromised dependency, build step, or token alter a release?
- Can untrusted contributors or workflows reach sensitive build credentials?
- Can artifacts be replaced or promoted without integrity verification?
- Can the organization identify which products contain an affected component?
- Repository, pipeline, dependency, and release-control observations
- Artifact integrity and provenance gap analysis
- Prioritized recommendations for build and dependency trust
How does Hackstack Security test?
Testing is scoped, evidence-led, and designed to reduce risk without creating unnecessary disruption.
Context first
We learn the system, users, trust boundaries, and business objectives before testing begins.
Expert-led testing
Automation supports coverage. Human analysis finds the issues that depend on judgment and context.
Clear prioritization
Findings are ranked by exploitability, impact, and what matters to your organization.
Remediation partnership
We stay engaged through fixes, answer engineering questions, and validate closure.
What will you receive?
Reports are written for the people who need to make decisions, fix issues, and demonstrate improvement.
Executive summary and risk narrative
Detailed technical findings
Risk rating and prioritization
Exploit evidence and reproduction steps
Developer-friendly remediation guidance
Retest status and closure validation
Secure Code Review questions, answered.
Still unsure? Ask us directly and we will reply with a proposed scope.
What does Secure Code Review include?
It covers manual source review, authentication and authorization review, input handling and injection analysis, cryptography and secrets review, SAST finding validation, and secure coding guidance. Each engagement is scoped to your environment and ends with validated findings, remediation guidance, and a readout.
What will we receive at the end?
You receive an executive summary, detailed technical findings with exploit evidence and reproduction steps, risk ratings, developer-ready remediation guidance, and retest status. The goal is reduced defect escape rate, actionable code-level fixes, secure-by-design engineering.
Which frameworks guide the testing?
Coverage is aligned with NIST Secure Software Development Framework, SLSA Specification, CISA Secure by Design, then shaped by your architecture, trust boundaries, and business workflows.
Do you use AI agents or only manual testing?
Both. AI agents running on self-hosted local models, and on API-based models when you approve them, handle reconnaissance, surface mapping, fuzzing, and hypothesis generation, while our specialists test business logic and chained attacks manually. Every result is validated by a practitioner before it is reported.
Can you support remediation and retesting?
Yes. We walk your engineers through findings, answer implementation questions, and retest agreed fixes to document final status for stakeholders and auditors.
Ready to strengthen your secure code review?
Share your targets, deadline, and any compliance driver. We reply with a proposed scope, test approach, and timeline. There is no obligation.