Security reviews and patching for Laravel applications

Why security matters more in the AI era

AI coding tools mean more code gets written, faster, by people who have not always read it. The same tools help attackers scan for weaknesses at scale. The result is simple: the gap between a mistake reaching production and someone finding it is getting shorter.

Most of the incidents we are asked to help with do not involve clever attacks. They start with something ordinary, such as an API endpoint that forgets to check who owns a record, a package that has not been updated for two years, or a .env file that ended up somewhere public.

What a security review covers

We review your application in three layers, because a weakness in any one of them is enough.

1. The code. We read the code that handles sign-in, permissions, payments, uploads and personal data, and test it on a staging copy. This is where we find broken access control, which has been the most common serious risk in the OWASP Top 10 since 2021.
2. The dependencies. A typical Laravel application pulls in well over a hundred Composer and npm packages. We check each one for known vulnerabilities, abandoned maintainers and packages that should not be there at all.
3. The platform. Servers, TLS, headers, cookies, backups, logs and who has access to what. Whether you run on Laravel Forge, Laravel Cloud, AWS or your own hardware, we check the configuration against current good practice.

What you get

A report written for two audiences. The summary explains the overall risk, what an attacker could actually do and what to fix first, in language a board or an insurer can follow. The technical section gives your developers the evidence, the affected code and a recommended fix for each finding.

When your fixes are in, we retest every finding at no extra cost and update the report, so you have a clean record to show customers and auditors.

Patching plans

Finding problems once is not enough. New vulnerabilities are published every week, and an application that was secure in January can be exposed by March without a single line of your code changing.

A patching plan keeps you current:

• Monthly updates to Laravel, PHP packages and front-end dependencies, tested and deployed through staging.
• Advisory monitoring for every package you use, including Laravel's own security releases.
• Emergency patches for critical issues within one working day.
• Framework support dates tracked for you, so you plan Laravel upgrades before your version stops getting security fixes. Our version support tracker shows the current dates.
• A monthly report listing what changed, what is outstanding and anything that needs a decision.

Patching plans start at £149 per application per month and work well alongside our infrastructure management for the servers themselves.

Who it is for

• SaaS companies whose enterprise customers send security questionnaires.
• Businesses handling personal or payment data that need to show they take UK GDPR seriously.
• Teams shipping AI-written code who want an independent check. If the app was built mostly with AI tools, start with a vibe code review, which covers security alongside data, performance and deployment.