WebsiteandapplicationsecuritytestingforEthiopianbusinesses
Is your website actually secure? We test sites, apps and APIs for Ethiopian businesses and report what an attacker could reach, in plain language.
Website security testing means deliberately attacking your own site under controlled conditions to find what a real attacker could reach. For an Ethiopian business it typically covers the public website, any customer login, the admin panel, payment integrations and the APIs behind a mobile app, and it produces a ranked list of what to fix.
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How to tell whether you need this
You do not need to understand security to answer these. If more than one or two are true, you have a reason to test.
- Customers can create an account and log in, or you store anything about them beyond a name and phone number.
- You take payment online, or integrate Telebirr, Chapa, CBE Birr or a card gateway.
- There is an admin panel reachable from the public internet.
- Your site runs WordPress with plugins that have not been updated in months.
- A mobile app talks to an API that nobody outside the development team has ever examined.
- The people who built it have moved on, and nobody currently knows how it works.
- Something has already happened once and it was quietly patched over.
What a test actually covers
Scope is agreed in advance and priced fixed. Typically:
| Area | What we look for |
|---|---|
| Authentication and sessions | Login that can be bypassed or brute-forced, password reset that can be hijacked, sessions that never expire, missing multi-factor authentication on admin accounts |
| Access control | Whether one customer can reach another customer's data by changing a number in a URL - the single most common serious flaw we find |
| Input handling | SQL injection, cross-site scripting, file uploads that can be made to execute, and template injection |
| APIs | Endpoints returning more data than the screen shows, missing authorisation, and rate limits that do not exist |
| Payment integration | Whether an amount, a currency or a callback can be tampered with between your system and the gateway |
| Infrastructure and configuration | Exposed admin interfaces, default credentials, out-of-date components with known public exploits, missing security headers, misconfigured cloud storage |
Automated scanners are part of the work and they are not the work. A scanner will tell you a header is missing; it will not notice that customer 412 can read customer 411's invoices, because that requires understanding what the application is for.
If a quote consists of a tool's output with a logo on it, you are buying a report rather than an assessment. The findings that matter are almost always the ones that required someone to think about your specific business logic.
What you get back
The deliverable is written to be acted on, not filed:
- A summary a non-technical decision-maker can readWhat is exposed, what it would cost you, and what we recommend doing in what order. One page.
- Findings ranked by real consequenceRanked by what an attacker could actually achieve against your business, not by a generic severity score. A critical-rated issue nobody can reach matters less than a medium one on your payment flow.
- Reproduction steps for each findingSo your developers - or ours - can see the problem rather than argue about whether it is real.
- A concrete fix for eachThe specific change, not "implement input validation". Where we are doing the remediation, this becomes the work plan.
- A re-testWe verify the findings you closed actually closed. An unverified fix is a belief.
Questions people ask
Find out what is exposed
Tell us what your site or application does and we will scope a test and quote a fixed price. If we think you do not need one yet, we will tell you that instead.