Thick Client & Desktop App Testing
Security testing of Windows, macOS, and Linux desktop applications — the fat clients that still run critical business processes.
Overview
Desktop and thick-client apps handle sensitive data and privileges but rarely get the scrutiny web apps do. We test the binary, its local storage and IPC, and the traffic to its backend — finding the insecure storage, weak crypto, and privilege issues attackers exploit on the endpoint.
What we cover
The ground a typical engagement covers — always tailored to your scope.
Binary analysis, reverse engineering, and tampering
Insecure local storage, registry, and config secrets
Inter-process communication and DLL/dylib hijacking
Client-server protocol and backend API testing
Privilege escalation and update-mechanism security
What every engagement delivers
Impact-rated findings
Every issue rated by real-world impact and mapped to OWASP & MITRE ATT&CK — not just a raw CVSS score.
Developer-ready fix guidance
Practical, specific remediation steps for each finding, written for the engineers who'll fix it.
Executive summary
A board-readable view of risk and posture alongside the full technical detail.
Free retest
We re-test your fixes and issue a clean report you can hand to customers and regulators.
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Practitioner-led review of your source — not just SAST output — tracing untrusted input to dangerous sinks, mapped to exact file and line.
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Hardening review of servers, endpoints, and network devices against CIS Benchmarks — closing the misconfigurations behind most real-world breaches.
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