Website security for teams who cannot afford "we think it's fine"
If your website or web app drives revenue, security is not an add-on, it is part of the product. When something breaks, customers, partners, and investors expect that you took security seriously long before the incident.
BYBOWU provides pragmatic website security and vulnerability assessment services for SaaS products, ecommerce, marketplaces, and content-heavy sites. Headquartered in Phoenix, AZ and working with clients across the US and worldwide, we help you see your real risk, close the important gaps, and communicate it clearly to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
You work directly with senior people who build and maintain web platforms every day. The result is a clear, prioritized plan your team can execute, not a 100-page PDF that nobody reads.
The problems we help you avoid
Most teams come to us with one or more of these concerns:
- You have grown quickly and are not sure if your security posture has kept up with traffic, data, and revenue.
- Enterprise prospects are sending security questionnaires, and answers are scattered across people and systems.
- A previous pen test uncovered a long list of issues, but no one agrees on which five items actually matter.
- You rely on WordPress, Laravel, React/Next.js, or a custom stack and worry about plugins, weak auth, or exposed APIs.
- Your internal team is focused on shipping features and needs an outside partner to stress-test what you already have.
- You have never done a structured assessment and want a clear baseline before a big launch or funding round.
If any of this sounds familiar, you do not need more alarms. You need a realistic view of exposure and a sequence of fixes that fits your roadmap.
How our website security assessments work
We combine automated scanning with methodical manual testing aligned with OWASP guidance. The goal is to uncover both obvious vulnerabilities and subtle logic issues that tools routinely miss.
1. Scope, access, and rules of engagement
- Define what is in scope: marketing sites, web apps, APIs, admin panels, and high-risk integrations.
- Agree on testing windows and safe-testing rules for staging and, where required, production.
- Clarify your primary driver: customer due diligence, internal risk reduction, or support for compliance efforts.
2. OWASP-style testing and hardening review
Our methodology follows OWASP Top 10 style checks for web apps and APIs, tailored to your stack:
- Authenticated and unauthenticated testing of key user flows and roles.
- Input handling and output encoding checks across forms, query parameters, headers, and JSON bodies.
- Focused review of sensitive flows such as login, signup, password reset, checkout, subscriptions, and admin actions.
- Where scope allows, targeted source review for authentication, authorization, payments, and file uploads.
- Environment checks: staging and production parity, secret handling, and basic hardening practices.
We also review your TLS/SSL and basic infrastructure hygiene:
- TLS configuration: protocol versions, cipher choices, and practical certificate management.
- HTTP security headers: HSTS, CSP, secure and HttpOnly cookies, SameSite policies, and related headers.
- At-rest protection: realistic recommendations around database, object storage, and backup encryption.
- Third parties: mixed-content checks, third‑party scripts, and guidance like Subresource Integrity (SRI) where it helps.
3. Readout, prioritization, and focused retest
Once testing is complete, we walk your product, engineering, or operations leads through the results in a live working session. You can dig into technical detail, push back where needed, and align on priorities and owners.
After your team has implemented critical fixes, we perform a focused retest of high-risk issues so you have confirmation before you talk to customers, auditors, or leadership.
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What you actually receive
The deliverables are built so executives get a clear story and engineers get concrete, reproducible work items.
For leadership and non-technical stakeholders
- Risk summary: a concise overview with issues grouped by business impact, such as data exposure, uptime, and revenue risk.
- Prioritized roadmap: what to fix now, what can wait, and what to monitor, mapped to effort and impact.
- Support for reviews: language and artifacts you can reuse in customer questionnaires or internal risk and compliance discussions.
For engineers and operators
- Technical issue list: for each finding, you get severity, affected components, reproduction steps, and remediation guidance.
- Security headers and app hardening: practical recommendations for CSP, HSTS, cookie flags, Referrer-Policy, and Permissions-Policy.
- Authentication and session guidance: MFA options, password and reset policies, session lifetimes, cookie settings, and rate limiting basics.
- Input, upload, and error handling patterns: validation, upload constraints, error messages, and logging hints that help during incidents.
- Dependency review: a software composition style view of frameworks, plugins, and libraries, plus a realistic update and monitoring approach.
The outcome is not just a list of problems but a practical plan that fits your release cadence.
What you can order
- Core website vulnerability scan and review — Scoped assessment of a single marketing or content site, including TLS/SSL checks, essential OWASP-style testing, and a short, prioritized fix list your developers can act on quickly.
- Web app and API security assessment — Deeper testing for SaaS products and platforms with authenticated roles and APIs, plus a readout workshop with your engineers and one retest of critical fixes.
- Ecommerce security and checkout hardening — Focused review of carts, checkout, account areas, and key integrations such as payment, shipping, and marketing tools, with concrete changes to reduce fraud and protect customer data.
- WordPress / CMS hardening package — Targeted review of WordPress or similar CMS setups covering plugins and themes, admin access, backups, and update workflows, aimed at improving stability without breaking content teams.
- Quarterly security checkup — Lightweight recurring assessment to catch new risks, verify that patching and monitoring are working, and keep you ready for security questionnaires and due diligence calls.
Guardrails that keep you safer every day
Most incidents come from missing guardrails, not just a single bad line of code. As a web and app development partner, we can help you put those guardrails in place and keep them there.
Edge protection and abuse controls
- Practical Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules tuned to your real traffic, not a generic template.
- Rate limiting, bot detection, and abuse protection for login, search, and checkout endpoints.
- CDN configuration updates such as cache keys, HTTPS-only access, and basic origin shielding.
- Simple API guardrails like schema validation, payload limits, and method restrictions.
Monitoring, logging, and alerting
- Centralized logging patterns so suspicious logins or access patterns are not buried in server logs.
- Alerts for key signals such as uptime, error spikes, TLS certificate expiry, and unusual traffic bursts.
- Runbook-style guidance that clarifies who investigates, who communicates, and how decisions get made under pressure.
Backups and recovery basics
- Versioned, tested backups that cover databases, object storage, and essential configuration.
- Clear expectations around acceptable downtime and data loss, matched to your actual business risk.
- Suggestions for simple "game day" drills so your team can practice recovery before it matters.
Proof it works in the real world
Marketplace handling campaign spikes
A growing fashion marketplace running seasonal promotions used our security and hardening review to stabilize TLS, cookies, and cart flows. When high-traffic campaigns went live, checkouts stayed fast and error-free.
SaaS platform preparing for bigger deals
A B2B SaaS team used our assessment to tighten authorization, backups, and logging before entering security reviews with larger customers, giving sales and leadership more confidence in the process.
Content-heavy WordPress site
A publisher with a busy WordPress site engaged BYBOWU to clean up outdated plugins, add targeted protections, and put a simple backup and update routine in place, improving reliability without slowing editors.
You can explore related work in our portfolio or ask us for examples closer to your industry.
Why choose BYBOWU for website security assessments
- Security plus product thinking — We design, build, and maintain web products every day, so our recommendations balance real security gains with your roadmap, marketing, and UX constraints.
- Senior attention, clear language — You work with experienced engineers and consultants who can speak with your CTO, founders, or operations leaders without hiding behind tool output.
- From Phoenix, serving globally — Our Phoenix-based team is used to working across US and international time zones, keeping communication simple and expectations clear.
- Help beyond the report — We stay available to clarify findings, support your developers, and, if you want, move straight into implementation or ongoing maintenance.
- Part of a broader stack — Because BYBOWU also delivers web development, ecommerce, and SEO & digital marketing, we can improve security without sacrificing performance or growth.
Questions founders usually ask
How long does an assessment usually take?
For a single website or a relatively simple web app, most assessments complete in about 2 to 4 weeks including the readout and one retest of critical fixes. Larger platforms or multiple properties can take longer. We confirm a realistic schedule with you before kickoff.
What budget range should we plan for?
Cost depends on scope and complexity. A focused review of one marketing site is very different from a deep SaaS platform assessment with multiple roles, APIs, and integrations. On the intro call we map your systems and give you a clear range before you commit. You can also review typical project levels on our Prices page.
Will testing disrupt our live users?
Our default is to test in staging environments and then validate selected findings in production under controlled conditions. When production traffic must be touched, we coordinate timing, rate limits, and safeguards with your team so users are not surprised and critical flows remain stable.
Can you also help with fixing the issues?
Yes. Some teams want a pure assessment, others prefer us to help implement fixes, especially for WordPress, Laravel, React/Next.js, or related infrastructure. We can scope a follow-on project or include implementation as part of a broader development or support engagement.
Will this satisfy customer or auditor requirements?
We are not a certification body, but the assessment and remediation work typically give you strong, concrete answers for security questionnaires and due diligence. If you have specific standards or customer expectations, share them up front so we can align the scope and deliverables to what you need to show.
Do you only work with local companies?
No. While our team is based in Phoenix, we regularly work with distributed teams across the US and internationally. If you prefer in-person workshops and you are nearby, we can meet on site. Otherwise everything runs smoothly over video and async channels.
Next step: get a clear, honest view of your risk
If you are preparing for a major launch, facing a customer security review, or simply want fewer unknowns around your web stack, we can help you move from "we think we are fine" to "we know where we stand" in a matter of weeks.
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