Security is embedded into every stage of our software development lifecycle. From initial design through deployment and ongoing monitoring, we follow industry recognised best practices to ensure our applications are resilient, trustworthy, and secure by default.
Security considerations begin at the earliest stages of development. Every new feature, integration, or add-on is reviewed with security in mind before implementation begins.
This includes:
Identifying potential security risks early
Designing features with least privilege and defence-in-depth principles
Ensuring new functionality aligns with our overall security architecture
By addressing security at the design stage, we reduce risk, limit technical debt, and prevent vulnerabilities from being introduced later in the lifecycle.
Our team receive ongoing cybersecurity training to ensure security awareness is maintained across the organisation.
Our team:
Stays current with evolving threat landscapes
Understands secure coding principles and common attack vectors
Applies security best practices as part of everyday development
Security is a shared responsibility, not an afterthought.
We follow defined coding standards to ensure code quality, maintainability, and security consistency across all projects.
Our standards:
Promote clean, readable, and testable code
Align with secure coding guidelines from OWASP
Reduce common issues such as injection flaws, insecure deserialization, and improper error handling.
Consistent standards make code easier to review, audit, and secure.
To protect against malicious code and tampering:
Cryptographic hashes of external DLLs and executables are generated
Hashes are submitted to external malware and virus intelligence databases
Components are verified to ensure integrity and authenticity
This reduces the risk of introducing compromised binaries into our products.
For cloud-based solutions, releases follow a structured approval process. This ensures deployments are intentional, secure, and fully reviewed.
Before deployment:
All team members and relevant stakeholders review the release
Development, security, and infrastructure readiness are validated
Security checks must pass before approval is granted
All DLLs and executables delivered to customer environments are digitally signed using code signing certificates. This provides assurance that released components are authentic and have not been modified since they were built and approved.
What code signing provides:
Tamper evidence: if a signed binary is altered, the signature validation fails.
Authenticity: customers and administrators can verify the software originates from your organization.
Release integrity: signed artifacts support controlled, traceable releases and reduce the risk of unauthorized binaries being distributed.
How it fits into our SDLC:
Signing occurs as part of the release pipeline, after builds pass security checks and approvals.
Signed artifacts become the only approved deployable outputs for customer delivery.
