Uncover vulnerabilities in your system. 

SecureStack Audit for Legacy Systems

A structured security and compliance analysis that helps enterprise teams identify vulnerabilities, reduce risk, and define a safe modernization roadmap.

  • Gain a clear security baseline across your legacy stack
  • Reduce real security risk with prioritized remediation
  • Strengthen compliance readiness with audit-ready evidence
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Why Choose Our SecureStack Audit?

SecureStack Audit is built for teams relying on critical legacy systems who need to reduce security debt without disrupting delivery. We combine security expertise with deep understanding of legacy constraints to deliver practical, implementable findings. Here's what you get:

 

See Real Risk, Not Assumptions

We give you a unified view of vulnerabilities across your code, third‑party components, containers and infrastructure, instead of isolated findings per tool.

Prioritize What Matters Most

Findings are grouped and prioritized by business impact and exploitation risk, so you can focus on the issues that truly threaten operations and compliance.

Preserve What Already Works

You keep stable business logic and workflows. We focus on securing the stack around them and highlight where security work should align with future modernization.

Support Compliance and Audits

You get documentation that can support customer due diligence and internal audits with clear, evidence‑based reporting.

Reduce Compliance Friction

By documenting your security posture and gaps, you reduce compliance risks, prevent costly rework and accelerate stakeholder approval with evidence regulators and auditors can trust.

Enable Confident Modernization

With a clear understanding of your security baseline, you can plan upgrades, cloud migration or UX/UI refresh knowing where your "no-go" zones are and where you have room to move.

Common Challenges We Address

Many legacy applications still power critical business operations, but years of patches, library updates and untracked dependencies often result in hidden vulnerabilities, compliance gaps and growing security debt.

Our SecureStack Audit is tailored to resolve the security blockers that slow down modernization and make legacy systems risky to change.

Outdated Components & Unknown Vulnerabilities

Legacy stacks often rely on old libraries and frameworks with known CVEs and unclear licences. We identify vulnerable and risky components and recommend upgrade or mitigation options that fit your reality.

Limited Visibility into Application Security

Security checks were often done at network or infrastructure level, with little focus on application code or software supply chain. We close that gap with SAST, SCA and configuration analysis tailored to your stack.

Unclear Security Posture for Stakeholders

Leaders know the legacy system is “risky”, but can’t quantify it or justify budget. Our audit translates technical findings into a clear risk picture linked to business and regulatory impact.

Late Discovery of Issues

Security problems often surface just before release, during customer audits or after incidents, causing rework and delays. SecureStack helps you address those risks earlier and plan remediation instead of reacting.

Why Improving Legacy Security Cannot Wait?

Vulnerabilities

Attack surface increases over time
Legacy systems accumulate vulnerabilities through outdated dependencies, integrations, and configuration drift.

Compliance

Compliance expectations are rising
Even stable systems must meet increasing audit and due diligence requirements.

Visibility

Hidden vulnerabilities create unpredictable risk
Without visibility, teams operate on assumptions — not evidence.

Security Focus

Security issues become more expensive over time
The longer external vulnerabilities stays in the system, the more complex and costly remediation becomes.

Our SecureStack Process – Step by Step

We keep the process tight and focused so your teams stay productive. 

Scoping & Setup

Together we define the scope of the audit and collect the necessary code, infrastructure or container data, ensuring the analysis is efficient, focused and aligned with your business goals.

System & Code Analysis

Your systems and code will receive a comprehensive audit, including static code analysis, third-party dependency checks, API testing, and container/Kubernetes reviews to uncover any security flaws, misconfigurations and risks.

Report and Guidance

You receive a structured report with clear risk assessments, remediation guidance and optional recommendations for secure implementation or DevOps support.

Implementation Support & Strategic Follow-Up

You're not alone in this . We support you in developing a clear strategy, discuss implementation options and timelines and provide development resources, support follow-up reviews or DevOps integration.

Deliverables and Timeline

Security Posture Report

Clear executive summary of your legacy application risks.

Prioritized Remediation List

Grouped by severity and effort, ready to feed into your backlog.

Full Risk Inventory

Vulnerabilities, dependency issues, license risks, secrets, and misconfigurations in one place.

Optional Debrief & Re‑audit

A joint session to present results and an optional follow‑up check after remediation.

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Here’s How We Help

Make Legacy Systems Safer to Run

We help you make legacy and hybrid applications safer to run by giving a clear view of where risk really lives in the stack, not just at the network edge. Our SecureStack Audit combines SAST, SCA, container and configuration checks, plus optional runtime and pipeline reviews, into one focused assessment tailored to your environment. You see vulnerabilities in custom code, open‑source components, third‑party libraries and base images that have quietly accumulated over years, and get clear priorities to reduce risk without attempting a risky full rewrite.

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Reduce Security Debt and Supply Chain Risk

Legacy applications tend to carry heavy security debt: outdated dependencies, long‑lived vulnerabilities and unclear ownership of third‑party components. SecureStack maps that debt across code, libraries and containers into a single, understandable picture. You see which issues are most critical, which come from your software supply chain, and where modern attack patterns are most likely to hit, along with realistic upgrade paths or compensating controls that respect the constraints of your legacy systems.

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Turn Security Findings into a Practical Plan

SecureStack is designed to turn findings into a roadmap your teams can actually execute. You receive a structured report with an executive summary, detailed vulnerabilities, risk assessment and concrete remediation guidance, grouped by severity and effort so product, security and engineering can align on priorities. We then turn this into a phased plan that highlights what to fix now, what to align with planned refactors or modernization, and where to integrate new checks into your CI/CD pipelines, so security becomes part of your ongoing software strategy rather than a one‑off audit.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is a SecureStack Audit for legacy systems and how does it help?

SecureStack Audit is a focused security assessment of your legacy applications and their software supply chain. It combines SAST, SCA, DAST, container and configuration checks into one structured review to show where real risks live in your stack and what to fix first, so you can keep critical systems running safely while planning modernization.

Do we need to rebuild our system to improve security?

No. In most cases you don’t need a full rebuild to improve security. SecureStack highlights where targeted fixes, dependency updates, configuration changes or compensating controls can significantly reduce risk while preserving existing workflows and business logic.

Can your audit work with our desktop‑based or hybrid setup?

Yes. SecureStack is designed for real‑world enterprise environments, including desktop clients, web frontends, on‑prem backends and hybrid cloud setups. We adapt the scope to your architecture and focus on code, components and environments that matter most for your risk profile, rather than forcing a one‑size‑fits‑all model.

What does the engagement process look like and how do we get started?

You start with a short discovery call to define scope, goals and constraints. Then we set up access, run the analysis, prepare the SecureStack Report and walk you through key findings and recommendations in a joint session, ending with a clear remediation roadmap and optional re‑audit of selected areas after fixes.

Why do we even need a security audit? We already know our weak spots.

You probably have a good intuition, but it’s not quantified, verified or linked to actual exploitability. SecureStack turns assumptions into evidence: it shows exactly which code paths, components and configurations create the highest security risk, so you that you can plan it in your roadmap.

Isn’t this just ‘consulting without delivery’ and extra cost?

It’s a small, fixed investment to get a security improvement plan. 

We deliver a prioritized, execution-ready remediation backlog—not a list of findings. We analyse the findings and provide the remediation guidance to eliminate vulnerabilities most effectively.

That means your team doesn’t spend weeks interpreting results or guessing priorities. You get a clear path to reduce risk in your application. We can also support you in implementation of the findings.

We already use tools like SonarQube / SAST / dependency scanners. Isn’t that enough?

If your teams already has efficient tools and processes for eliminating the vulnerabilities then the incremental value of Secure Stack will be smaller.

In practice, very often the teams struggle with fixing or prioritizing the issues. 

Secure stack helps with this, provide prioritization and a guidance how to effectively eliminate the vulnerabilities.

We already know the legacy parts are bad. What’s new for me?

You may know where it hurts, but not which concrete risks sit behind that pain. SecureStack shows which parts of the legacy stack are simply old and which are genuinely dangerous, and ranks them so you can decide what to stabilise first instead of treating everything as equally bad.

What kind of organizations benefit most from this audit?

SecureStack is a good fit for companies that maintain their own software but don’t have a mature internal AppSec function, especially those with several legacy or hybrid applications and limited capacity to deal with accumulated security debt. Typical profiles include mid‑sized product companies and enterprises in sectors like logistics, manufacturing, telecom‑adjacent services and other industries where software is critical but not the only focus.

What happens after the audit?

After the audit, you can use the roadmap internally or work with us to plan and implement selected remediations. We can support follow‑up checks, help integrate security controls into your CI/CD pipelines and, where it makes sense, align fixes with broader initiatives like UX refreshes, refactors or replatforming so security improvements become part of your ongoing modernization work.

How do you ensure data security and confidentiality?

 The process begins with aligning on security standards and signing an NDA.  

We work within an agreed scope, use secure channels for sharing code and configuration. Access, handling of sensitive assets and retention periods are defined upfront in the Statement of Work and contract clauses, so you stay in control of what we see, what we do and how long we keep any data.

As a company certified in ISO 27001 and TISAX, we follow strict security practices across all projects to ensure your data remains fully protected.