What People Say About Us
"Be afraid..."
American Express
"Matta understands my business, and they take the time to explain and demonstrate any findings, so I understand the impact both from a technical perspective and in a business context. I see them as adding true value to my operations, and recommend them whole-heartedly."
Republic First Bank
"I'd like to just say how impressed by your representative we were. He was very knowledgeable about wireless and network security and filled us with confidence. We were also pleased that when he'd done all he could on the wireless, he actively sought out other ways to improve our security of our wired network."
St Clements
"I would like to say big thank you for all your input. Both, the audit and our security policy review have been very useful and will allow us to address the issues accordingly. If required I would be very happy to use you services in the future."
National Centre for Languages
"The guys know their stuff..."
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Services
Matta's focus is to deliver the highest quality services. We do this through assiduous attention to detail, hiring the best people, and always starting from the same perspective - 'How can we help our customers achieve their goals'.
Code Review
Unfortunately, the majority of developers still don't have a good grasp of security. Although the overall level of knowledge is steadily increasing, the fact is that most developers rightly see themselves as experts in building functionality, performance and and a pleasant user experience, but do not position themselves as experts in computer security.
Web Application tests can validate whether vulnerabilities can be found and exploited on an application, but there are sometimes good reason to commission a code review.
When a client engages a security consultant to perform any test, there is always a 'time box' or deadline to complete the testing by. By contrast, a hacker has no such time constraints. When faced with these commercial limitations, companies should look at ways in which they can discover as many vulnerabilities in as short a time as possible.
A Code Review is, in the first place, an effective means to shortcut the vulnerability finding process. But there are other benefits which include:
- Reviewing whether good coding practices have been enforced
- Determine if secure code libraries are used and consistant
- Identify architcture weaknesses
- Identifying vulnerabilities that would be hard to find via the web interface
- Find logic errors in alogrithms