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Secure API & Code Review for High‑Stakes Web Projects

Secure API & Code Review for High‑Stakes Web Projects in Dubai

Stralya’s Secure API & Code Review service is designed for organisations in Dubai that cannot afford security incidents or unreliable code. Our senior engineers audit your APIs and codebase end-to-end, uncover vulnerabilities, remove technical debt, and deliver a clear remediation roadmap so your digital products stay fast, robust, and secure in production.

Service scope

What is included in Stralya’s Secure API & Code Review?

This service is a structured, time-bound engagement focused on assessing and strengthening the security, reliability, and maintainability of your APIs and cloud-native codebase. It is particularly suited to organisations in Dubai preparing for scale, investment, or regulatory scrutiny.

Core deliverables you receive

Comprehensive mapping of your API surface and critical code paths.

Identification and classification of security vulnerabilities across APIs, backend and frontend components.

Analysis of authentication, authorisation, session management, and data access controls.

Review of input validation, error handling, logging, and rate limiting strategies.

Assessment of dependency management, third-party integrations, and supply chain risks.

Evaluation of cloud configuration for your web workloads on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Clear, prioritised report with severity levels, technical details, and business impact per finding.

Developer-ready remediation recommendations and suggested implementation patterns.

Optional add-ons

Hands-on implementation of remediation items by Stralya’s senior engineers.

Continuous security review as part of a long-term maintenance and evolution SLA.

Pre-launch security readiness review for new product releases or major feature rollouts.

Developer coaching sessions to align your internal team with secure coding best practices.

Integration of security checks into your CI/CD pipelines for ongoing protection.

Every engagement is tailored to your context: the sensitivity of your data, your regulatory exposure, and the maturity of your engineering team. We only accept projects where we can maintain our standards of quality and deliver tangible value to your organisation.

Key benefits for your organisation in Dubai

Reduced security and compliance risk

Identify and address vulnerabilities before they are exploited. Our review helps you align with international security expectations, investor due diligence, and local regulatory requirements affecting digital platforms in the UAE.

More stable, high-performance applications

By uncovering architectural weaknesses and hidden bottlenecks, we help your team improve performance, resilience, and scalability—critical for customer-facing platforms in a demanding market like Dubai.

Clear roadmap instead of vague recommendations

You receive a concrete, prioritised remediation plan, not just a list of problems. This allows your leadership and engineering teams to make informed decisions and allocate resources efficiently.

A long-term, accountable partner

Stralya’s mission is to secure and deliver complex web projects in the Middle East. Our Secure API & Code Review is often the first step in building a long-term, trust-based partnership around your most strategic digital assets.

How we work

A structured, senior-led review – from discovery to remediation plan

Our Secure API & Code Review is delivered as a focused, fixed-price engagement. We start by understanding your architecture and business priorities, then perform a combination of automated and manual analysis before consolidating findings into a clear, prioritised action plan your team can execute—or we can implement for you.

We begin with a working session with your CTO, technical lead, or product owner to understand your application, business flows, compliance constraints, and risk appetite. We review existing documentation, architecture diagrams, and deployment pipelines to align the review with your real-world priorities.

Our engineers map your API endpoints, services, and key modules. We identify critical paths such as authentication, payments, data exports, admin interfaces, and third-party integrations. This allows us to focus effort where a breach or failure would be most damaging.

We run carefully selected security and static analysis tools against your repositories and environments. This helps us quickly detect common vulnerabilities, outdated dependencies, insecure configurations, and code quality issues, which we then validate manually to avoid false positives.

Senior engineers manually inspect sensitive areas: authentication and authorisation flows, input validation, data access layers, error handling, API rate limiting, and cloud configuration. We look for logical flaws, insecure patterns, and hidden coupling that automated tools cannot see.

Each finding is assessed based on exploitability, potential impact, and likelihood in your specific context. We classify items by severity and effort, so your leadership can make informed trade-offs between speed, cost, and risk reduction.

You receive a structured report, developer-ready tickets, and a recommended remediation roadmap. We can support your internal team during implementation, or take ownership of fixes under a separate fixed-price or maintenance engagement.

Find Commonly Asked Questions

This service is designed for startups, scale-ups, SMEs, large enterprises, and governmental or semi-governmental entities in Dubai and the wider GCC that operate critical web applications or APIs. Typical stakeholders include CTOs, CIOs, Heads of Engineering, and Digital Transformation leaders who need independent, senior validation of their codebase before a major launch, audit, or scale-up.

We focus on modern, cloud-native web applications and APIs running on AWS, Azure, or GCP. Our team regularly works with TypeScript, Node.js, React, Next.js, NestJS, PHP/Laravel, Python/Django or FastAPI, and containerised or serverless architectures. If your stack is different, we assess fit during the initial call and only accept engagements where we can maintain our quality standards.

No. A Secure API & Code Review is complementary to penetration testing. While a penetration test focuses on externally observable behaviour, our service goes inside the code and architecture to identify structural weaknesses, insecure patterns, and long-term risks. We often work alongside your penetration testing provider or help you prepare for a formal pen test.

Timelines depend on the size and complexity of your codebase and the number of APIs in scope. For a focused review of a core application, engagements typically range from one to three weeks. During scoping, we define a clear timeline and milestones so you know exactly when to expect findings and the final report.

Yes, if you wish. Many clients in Dubai ask Stralya not only to identify issues but also to take ownership of remediation. We can implement fixes under a separate fixed-price project or as part of a longer-term maintenance and evolution engagement, always with clear scope, estimates, and acceptance criteria.

We work on a fixed-price basis for Secure API & Code Review engagements. After an initial discovery call and a quick review of your repositories and architecture, we define a precise scope and provide a fixed proposal that includes deliverables, timelines, and assumptions. We do not bill by the day; we commit to an outcome.

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