What a serious security audit is
Not an automated tool firing 200 false positives. A serious audit is:
- Targeted — focused on real risks of your specific system.
- Manual where it matters — tools catch 30%, the rest is human experience.
- Prioritized by business impact — not everything is P1, some is cosmetic.
- Actionable — the report tells you exactly how to fix every issue.
OWASP Top 10 (2021) — what I test
- A01: Broken Access Control
- A02: Cryptographic Failures
- A03: Injection (SQL, NoSQL, OS, LDAP)
- A04: Insecure Design
- A05: Security Misconfiguration
- A06: Vulnerable and Outdated Components
- A07: Identification and Authentication Failures
- A08: Software and Data Integrity Failures
- A09: Security Logging and Monitoring Failures
- A10: Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
Plus tests specific to your domain (e-commerce → payment flows, web app → privilege escalation, etc.).