Security Compliance & Web Hardening
Security breaches cost organizations millions in damages, lost trust, and regulatory penalties. Yet many web teams lack dedicated security expertise, relying on outdated practices or reactive approaches. Drawing on experience building secure applications in regulated industries like healthcare, including work at Veeva serving pharmaceutical companies with strict compliance requirements, we provide security audits, compliance guidance, and infrastructure hardening that protect your organization while enabling confident product development.
Regulatory Compliance
Meet HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2, and industry-specific requirements through documented security controls, audit trails, and compliance-ready architectures.
Risk Reduction
Proactive security audits identify vulnerabilities before they become breaches, protecting sensitive data and preventing costly incidents.
User Trust
Visible security measures (HTTPS, security headers, privacy policies) build user confidence and demonstrate organizational commitment to data protection.
Incident Prevention
Defense-in-depth strategies combining application security, infrastructure hardening, and monitoring prevent common attack vectors.
Automated Security
Security scanning in CI/CD pipelines, automated dependency updates, and continuous monitoring catch vulnerabilities early.
Team Education
Security training and best practice documentation help development teams write secure code and understand threat models.
Why security requires specialized expertise
Web security extends far beyond HTTPS and password requirements. Modern applications face sophisticated threats: SQL injection, cross-site scripting (XSS), cross-site request forgery (CSRF), authentication bypass, authorization flaws, dependency vulnerabilities, and infrastructure misconfiguration. Each represents potential entry points for attackers seeking sensitive data or system access.
Compliance adds complexity. Healthcare organizations need HIPAA compliance. Companies processing European user data require GDPR compliance. Enterprise software often requires SOC 2 certification. Each framework demands specific technical controls, documentation, audit trails, and incident response procedures, requirements that don't map neatly to generic security advice.
At Veeva, I worked on platforms handling sensitive pharmaceutical data requiring strict security controls and regulatory compliance. This experience taught valuable lessons about implementing defense-in-depth strategies, maintaining audit trails, balancing security with usability, and establishing security practices that scale across development teams without becoming bottlenecks.
Our security approach
Security audit
Comprehensive application and infrastructure assessment identifying vulnerabilities in code, configuration, authentication, authorization, data handling, third-party dependencies, and deployment practices with prioritized remediation roadmap.
Hardening implementation
Deploy security controls: Content Security Policy, security headers, HTTPS enforcement, secure session management, input validation, output encoding, and defense-in-depth strategies protecting against common attack vectors.
Compliance guidance
Map technical controls to compliance requirements (HIPAA, GDPR, SOC 2), establish documentation practices, implement audit logging, and create incident response procedures meeting regulatory expectations.
Continuous security
Integrate security scanning in CI/CD pipelines, automated dependency updates, penetration testing schedules, and security monitoring that catch vulnerabilities early while maintaining development velocity.
Key security areas
Application security
Protection against OWASP Top 10 vulnerabilities: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF, authentication bypass, broken access control, security misconfiguration, insecure deserialization, and insufficient logging/monitoring through secure coding practices and framework-level protections.
Infrastructure hardening
Server hardening, network segmentation, firewall configuration, DDoS protection, SSL/TLS optimization, security headers (CSP, HSTS, X-Frame-Options), and cloud security best practices preventing infrastructure-level attacks.
Authentication & authorization
Modern authentication patterns (OAuth 2.0, OIDC), multi-factor authentication, secure password policies, session management, role-based access control (RBAC), and API security protecting user accounts and sensitive operations.
Data protection
Encryption at rest and in transit, secure data handling, PII protection, data retention policies, secure backups, and GDPR-compliant data processing practices protecting sensitive information throughout its lifecycle.
Compliance frameworks
HIPAA Compliance
Healthcare data protection through administrative, physical, and technical safeguards meeting HIPAA Security Rule requirements for protected health information (PHI).
GDPR Compliance
European data protection through lawful processing, consent management, data subject rights, breach notification, and privacy-by-design principles required by GDPR.
SOC 2 Readiness
Enterprise trust through security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy controls aligned with SOC 2 Type II requirements.
Security automation
CI/CD security scanning
Automated security testing in deployment pipelines using SAST (static analysis), DAST (dynamic analysis), dependency scanning, and container scanning catching vulnerabilities before production.
Dependency management
Automated dependency updates (Dependabot, Renovate), vulnerability monitoring, and supply chain security ensuring third-party code doesn't introduce security risks.
Security monitoring
Real-time threat detection, intrusion detection systems (IDS), log aggregation and analysis, anomaly detection, and incident alerting enabling rapid response to security events.
Ready to start your project?
Let's discuss how we can help modernize your web presence and deliver measurable results for your organization.