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Web and API audits

What a Boni audit covers across your app, identity, business logic and transport — and the written scope that has to exist first.

What gets tested

An audit covers the surfaces that actually create customer risk — the ones automated scanners alone are bad at judging.

AreaWhat is examined
Application surfaceWebsites, customer portals, admin panels, dashboards, staging hosts, API endpoints, exposed tooling
Identity and accessAuthentication flows, session handling, authorization boundaries, password reset, token handling, role leakage
Common classesInjection, cross-site scripting, SSRF indicators, access control, file handling, misconfiguration, sensitive data exposure
Business logicFlows where the rules matter more than the payload, such as pricing, ordering, entitlement and payment paths
Transport and headersTLS posture, HSTS, CSP, frame controls, cookie flags, CORS, cache behavior, public metadata hygiene

Business logic is the part a scanner cannot do on its own, and it is usually where the expensive problems live.

Before anything is tested

Active testing does not start without a written target list naming the surfaces in scope, the limits, and the timing. This is the one artifact an engagement cannot begin without.

Agreed up frontWhy it matters
Target listA surface not on the list is not tested
ExclusionsDestructive actions and private-data access are excluded explicitly
TimingTesting windows avoid your peak load and your release moments
RecipientsWho receives findings, and how they are delivered

Staging hosts, forgotten subdomains and internal tools are worth putting in scope. They are frequently the weakest surface and the easiest to forget.

What you get back

Each finding carries its evidence, a severity with the reasoning behind it, remediation guidance aimed at whoever has to implement it, and a retest position. The report has an executive summary that states the risk without losing the technical truth underneath.

Findings then move into the vulnerability management loop rather than ending at the report — that is where retest and closure happen.

After the fixes

Retest closes the loop. A fixed finding carries its retest evidence, so the closure is provable later — during a customer security review, a procurement questionnaire, or your next audit.

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