Modern Application Security Programs

Managing Application Risk Across Your Entire Portfolio

Your applications are changing every day. Your security testing program should too.

Modern software development has fundamentally changed how organizations manage application security. Web applications, APIs, mobile platforms, cloud-native services, AI-enabled applications, and third-party integrations continue to grow in both number and complexity. At the same time, development teams release software more frequently, business priorities shift quickly, and regulatory expectations continue to increase.

Security leaders are expected to maintain visibility across this expanding attack surface while balancing limited internal resources, aggressive development schedules, and increasing pressure to demonstrate measurable risk reduction.

Successful application security programs require more than technical assessments. They require planning, governance, coordination, and the operational discipline to ensure security testing remains aligned with the business.

Rotas helps organizations build and operate application security programs that provide consistent coverage, measurable outcomes, and the flexibility to support modern software development.

Built for organizations that…

  • Manage a large or growing application portfolio
  • Struggle to coordinate testing across development teams
  • Need consistent testing standards across applications
  • Have annual or regulatory testing requirements
  • Need better visibility into testing coverage and remediation
  • Want to consolidate multiple testing vendors into a single program

From Individual Pentests to Managed Testing Program

  • Public-facing web applications
  • Mobile applications
  • Authentication and identity services
  • Third-party integrations

Each application is a part of a larger ecosystem. Each introduces unique attack paths. Yet together, they shape the organization’s overall security posture. Rotas provides comprehensive security testing across the entire application ecosystem, not just individual applications.

  • REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs
  • Cloud-hosted applications
  • Administrative portals
  • Internal Business Applications

Every organization has applications at different stages of development, varying levels of business criticality, and unique compliance requirements. Instead of treating each penetration test as an isolated engagement, Rotas manages testing across your entire portfolio through a repeatable process that ensures the right applications are tested at the right time.

We work with your teams to:

  • Maintain a centralized application inventory
  • Prioritize testing based on business risk
  • Coordinate assessment schedules
  • Align testing with release cycles
  • Validate remediation activities
  • Track historical testing and coverage

Rotas integrates with your existing workflows, ticketing platforms, vulnerability management systems, reporting processes, and approval workflows to become part of your security operations rather than another disconnected vendor.

Our onboarding and transition approach is designed to assume responsibility for an existing testing program while minimizing disruption through phased knowledge transfer, workflow integration, roadmap validation, and transition to steady-state operations.

Rotas provides a structured approach to application security by coordinating assessment planning, technical testing, remediation validation, and executive reporting within a single operational program. The objective is straightforward: ensure the right applications are tested at the right time using the right methodology while providing leadership with clear visibility into organizational risk.

Whether supporting annual compliance initiatives, major product releases, or continuous software delivery, the program adapts to your development processes and business priorities.

  1. Application Portfolio Management – Understand your application landscape by identifying web applications, APIs, mobile platforms, authentication services, and supporting infrastructure.
  2. Risk-based Planning – Rank applications based on business criticality, internet exposure, sensitive data, compliance requirements, and release cadence to ensure testing resources are focused where they matter most.
  3. Testing Coordination – Perform expert-led penetration testing using threat-informed methodologies aligned with OWASP, PTES, and current attacker techniques. Testing validates vulnerabilities through controlled exploitation and evaluates real-world business impact.
  4. Governance and Reporting – Provide actionable technical findings, program KPIs, executive summaries, governance reviews, and remediation guidance tailored to both engineering teams and executive leadership.
  5. Remediation Validation – Retest remediated findings, measure security improvements, and continuously refine the testing roadmap as applications evolve.

Security testing should not only satisfy compliance requirements, it should also provide confidence that the applications driving your business can withstand modern attacks. Rotas serves as an extension of your security and development teams, helping you prioritize risk, coordinate testing, validate remediation efforts, and build a mature, scalable application security program.

Rotas aligns security testing with the way modern organizations build software. Our program supports:

  • Agile development
  • DevSecOps initiatives
  • CI/CD release cycles
  • Major application releases
  • Continuous deployment
  • Annual compliance assessments
  • Enterprise application portfolios

Whether applications are released monthly or multiple times each day, testing can be scheduled and prioritized to align with development velocity and organizational risk.

Rotas delivers tailored reporting for multiple audiences, helping engineers remediate vulnerabilities while giving leadership meaningful insight into organizational risk. Deliverables include:

Technical Reporting: Detailed findings, Attack scenarios, Proof of exploitability, Remediation guidance, Retesting validation

Quarterly Program Reporting: Testing coverage, Program KPIs, Risk trends, Compliance status, Quarterly governance reports

Annual Reviews: Each year, Rotas provides a comprehensive review of the testing program called the “365 Report”, highlighting trends, improvements, recurring issues, and recommendations for the year ahead.

Web Application Security

  • OWASP Web Security Testing Guide (WSTG)
  • OWASP Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS)
  • OWASP Top 10
  • CWE Top 25

API Security

  • OWASP API Security Top 10
  • REST, SOAP, and GraphQL security assessments
  • Authentication and authorization validation
  • Business logic analysis

Mobile Application Security

  • OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS)
  • OWASP Mobile Application Security Testing Guide (MASTG)
  • Static and dynamic analysis
  • Runtime security validation

Infrastructure and Cloud

  • Penetration Testing Execution Standard (PTES)
  • NIST SP 800-115
  • MITRE ATT&CK-informed adversarial testing
  • Cloud security configuration validation

Secure Development

  • NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)
  • Secure software development lifecycle support
  • Threat-informed testing
  • DevSecOps integration

Industry frameworks establish consistency across assessments, while manual testing provides the context needed to identify business-logic weaknesses, chained attack paths, authorization flaws, and other complex vulnerabilities that automated tools often overlook.

The Rotas Security Difference

Attacker Mindset

Every engagement begins with a simple question: “How would a real threat actor get in?” Instead of validating checklists or chasing individual vulnerabilities, we think like attackers, chaining weaknesses together to identify realistic paths to compromise and demonstrate meaningful business impact.

Technical Depth

Our consultants are seasoned offensive security professionals with expertise spanning penetration testing, red teaming, exploit development, and security research. We bring deep technical knowledge to every engagement, enabling us to uncover vulnerabilities that automated tools and checklist-driven assessments often miss.

Proven Experience

Our team brings experience supporting Fortune 200 companies, federal and local government, healthcare, financial services, higher education, and critical infrastructure. This breadth of experience enables us to quickly understand complex environments and deliver offensive security assessments that align with each organization’s unique risks and objectives.

 

Let's talk about your needs

Enterprise application security requires experienced consultants, repeatable processes, and consistent program management. Rotas brings those capabilities together through a delivery model that combines offensive security expertise with governance, project management, and executive oversight.

Our consultants perform hands-on security assessments across modern technologies while dedicated program management ensures assessments remain coordinated, reporting remains consistent, and stakeholders maintain visibility throughout the engagement lifecycle. We leverage AI and automation to accelerate reconnaissance, identify patterns, and streamline repetitive tasks, allowing our consultants to focus on creativity, business logic, and complex attack scenarios. Read more at AI in Testing.

How organizations rely on Rotas to help:

  • Establish and mature application security programs
  • Coordinate security testing across diverse application portfolios
  • Align assessment activities with software development
  • Validate remediation efforts
  • Measure application security performance over time
  • Support compliance and regulatory initiatives
  • Provide experienced offensive security expertise as an extension of the internal security team

The result is an application security program that scales with the organization, supports engineering teams, and provides leadership with meaningful insight into application risk.