audit-auth

An authentication security audit examines JWT handling, password hashing, rate limiting, and CORS across backend, frontend, and infrastructure layers. It identifies exploitable weaknesses by analyzing token storage, session management, and secret exposure risks together rather than in isolation to ensure production readiness.

An authentication audit verifies HTTP security headers including HSTS, CSP, and X-Frame-Options alongside CORS configurations and TLS reverse proxy behavior. It assesses Docker best practices like non-root users and pinned images to ensure infrastructure hardening before production deployment.

Secret scanning detects exposed credentials in Git history using gitleaks and assesses secret handling across the project directory. An authentication audit integrates this scan to verify CI/CD pinning, identify hardcoded secrets, and evaluate overall secret exposure risks before deployment.

Frontend auth hardening reviews token storage practices, XSS defenses, route guards, and URL validation to prevent session hijacking. It verifies refresh flow safety, HTTPS expectations, and confirms client-side caching cleanup at logout to ensure secure authentication behavior.

The authentication audit validates production readiness for passwordless flows and 2FA/TOTP implementations by reviewing session management, refresh-token rotation, and logout behavior. It examines multi-factor authentication stacks alongside error patterns and logging hygiene to ensure comprehensive security.

Conducting a comprehensive authentication audit across backend, frontend, and infrastructure uncovers OWASP vulnerabilities, SQL injection risks, and rate limiting issues that isolated reviews miss. Analyzing the entire project directory together identifies exploitable weaknesses in JWT handling, session flows, and security headers.