Security Consulting

Application Security expertise on demand.

BeDefended helps your company secure the entire lifecycle of your software and AI-powered solutions, whether you build them or buy them.

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Why choose us

We are an Italian security company focused on cloud and application security. Our services draw on years of penetration testing, consulting, training and research.

Solid methodology built by experts
International certifications
3,000+ vulnerabilities found
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FAQ

Security consulting: common questions

What teams usually ask us before starting a consulting engagement.

Where do we start with a secure development lifecycle?

From where you are today. We look at how your teams design, write, review, test and release software, and measure that process against a recognized maturity model such as OWASP SAMM. The result is a prioritized roadmap: which activities to introduce first (threat modeling, secure code review, security testing in the pipeline, vulnerability management), who owns them and how to measure progress. Then we work through it with you, so the roadmap does not just sit on a shelf.

Are you tied to any security tool vendor?

No. We do not resell licenses, so our selection is independent and based only on your languages, frameworks, CI/CD pipeline and team. We put the candidate tools to the test on your own applications and code, compare their false positives, speed and the way they report issues to developers, then help you integrate the ones you choose.

Do we need a vulnerability disclosure policy?

If you publish software, run an online service or sell a connected product, yes. A disclosure policy tells security researchers how to report a flaw to you safely, instead of posting it publicly or giving up. It is established good practice (ISO/IEC 29147, plus a security.txt file as defined in RFC 9116). For manufacturers of products with digital elements placed on the EU market, the Cyber Resilience Act makes a coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy mandatory from December 11, 2027, and NIS2 (Article 21) lists vulnerability handling and disclosure among the security measures required of the entities in its scope. We draft the policy with you, set up intake and triage, and weigh whether a bug bounty makes sense.

Bug bounty or penetration test: which one do we need?

They answer different questions. A penetration test is a time-boxed, in-depth review of a defined scope by a team you choose, with a report you can show an auditor. A bug bounty rewards independent researchers for valid, previously unreported findings and keeps people looking at your systems over time, but coverage depends on who takes part. A sensible order is to start with regular penetration tests and a disclosure policy, and add a bug bounty once you can triage and fix reports quickly.

Can you write secure coding guidelines for our stack?

Yes, and we tailor them to you. We start from OWASP references such as the Application Security Verification Standard and the Cheat Sheet Series, which are generic on their own, and fit them to your context: your stack (Java, .NET, PHP, Android, iOS and others), the frameworks and in-house libraries you use, the data you handle and the risks specific to your business. Each rule comes with examples, ideally taken from your own code, and is written so it can be checked in code review or by a SAST check. Guidelines work best when paired with hands-on training for the developers who will follow them.

Which of the team's certifications relate to secure development?

For secure development, the team holds CSSLP from ISC2 (security across the whole software lifecycle) and EC-Council's CASE Java and CASE .NET (secure coding in Java and .NET). The full list, which also covers penetration testing and cloud, is on our About page.

Does the EU AI Act affect the security of our AI application?

If your system falls into the high-risk category of the AI Act, yes: Article 15 requires it to be resilient against attempts to exploit its vulnerabilities, with measures, where appropriate, against data poisoning, model poisoning, adversarial examples and confidentiality attacks. Following the 2026 amendment (Regulation (EU) 2026/1744), these requirements apply from December 2, 2027, for the high-risk systems listed in Annex III and from August 2, 2028, for those linked to products covered by the EU harmonization legislation listed in Annex I. Even outside that category, applications built on LLMs face risks such as prompt injection, sensitive information disclosure and excessive agency, listed in the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications. Before go-live, we can threat model the system with you, define guardrails and plan the security tests.