Code Security and Quality: Key Statistics
What insecure code actually costs: breach, technical debt, dependency, and AI-generated code statistics from IBM, Verizon, OWASP, and other named sources.
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Free manual code audit, by real engineers
Find what's broken in your codebase, before it costs you.
Submit a repo URL or a snippet. A senior Webisoft engineer reads your code and sends back a prioritized findings report: security holes, leaked secrets, tech debt, and the parts that won't survive scale.
- 100% free, no credit card
- No sales call required
- Written findings in days
Every audit is read line by line by a senior engineer at Webisoft, the Montreal firm that builds and rescues production systems. Not a scanner with your logo on the PDF.
Backed by Webisoft, a software engineering firm in Montreal
- Senior engineers, not interns
- Manual review, not a scanner
- Your code is never retained
- NDA available on request
What we audit
Four ways codebases fail. We check all of them.
Code written under deadline pressure, by a past contractor, an AI assistant, or your own team at 2 a.m., carries decisions nobody has re-read since. We re-read them, and we skip the style nits.
Security
Injection points, leaked credentials, broken auth and access control: the OWASP-shaped holes that sit quietly until someone hostile finds them first.
Performance
N+1 queries, missing indexes, synchronous bottlenecks, and the endpoints that will fold under your first real traffic spike.
Code quality
Dead code, copy-paste sprawl, error handling that swallows failures: the tech debt that quietly taxes every future feature.
Architecture
Coupling, boundaries, and the structural decisions that decide whether the next ten features are cheap or a rewrite.
Full scope
Everything a senior engineer looks for
Tools assist, a human decides what actually matters. Here is the checklist your report is built from.
Security
- SQL and NoSQL injection
- XSS and unsafe templating
- Auth and session handling
- IDOR and access control gaps
- Unsafe deserialization
Secrets & dependencies
- Committed API keys and tokens
- Secrets still live in git history
- Dependencies with known CVEs
- Abandoned and outdated packages
- Config and deploy file risks
Performance & scale
- N+1 queries and missing indexes
- Synchronous bottlenecks
- Caching gaps and hot paths
- Payloads and over-fetching
- Scaling ceilings in the design
Quality & maintainability
- Error handling that hides failures
- Dead code and duplication
- Test coverage on critical paths
- API design and consistency
- PII handling and data exposure
Everything above, checked against your code, for free.
Get my free code auditHow it works
Three steps, zero meetings
Submit your code
Drop a repo URL (public, or invite us to a private one) or paste a snippet in the form below. Add context if you want: what worries you, what's about to ship.
An engineer reads it
A senior Webisoft engineer audits it by hand: security, secrets, dependencies, architecture, the parts that won't survive scale. Tools assist; a human decides what actually matters.
You get written findings
A prioritized findings report by email: severity, file and line, and a suggested fix for each item. Yours to act on, with us or without us.
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What you walk away with
Vague unease in. Punch list out.
"The codebase is messy" isn't actionable. "Rotate the AWS key in deploy.yml:14" is. The report turns worry into work items your team can schedule this sprint.
- A prioritized fix list. Handle the two things that matter this week, not 400 scanner warnings.
- Independent evidence. Written findings you can put in front of a co-founder, a board, or a due diligence team.
- Leverage over vendors. If a contractor built it, you now know exactly what to send back and what to demand.
- Or a clean bill of health. Worst case, you get independent confirmation your codebase is solid, in writing.
FAQ
The questions you're actually asking
Is it really free?
Yes. No credit card, no trial, no invoice afterwards. You submit code, we send findings. That's the whole transaction.
What's the catch?
The catch is stated plainly: a good audit is how Webisoft finds clients. Some people who get findings decide they want the same engineers to fix them: custom development, rescue work, or a fractional CTO. Most don't, and that's fine. The audit is real either way, because a shallow one would defeat the point.
Do you keep my code? Will you sign an NDA?
We read your code to audit it and we don't retain it afterwards. We never share it, train on it, or reuse it. If your legal team wants an NDA before you share anything, ask in the form. We sign reasonable NDAs without drama.
How long does it take?
Typically a few business days, depending on queue and codebase size. It's a manual review by a working engineer, not an instant scanner report. That's the point.
What exactly do I get?
A written findings report: each issue with a severity, the file and line where we found it, why it matters, and a suggested fix. Prioritized, so you know what to handle first.
How is this different from running a scanner myself?
Run the scanner too. It's free and catches real things. What it can't do is tell you which of its 400 warnings matter, spot an architecture that won't scale, or notice that your auth logic is technically valid and practically wrong. That takes a person who has shipped and rescued production systems.
Start here
Request your free code audit
Two minutes to submit. A senior engineer reads your code, and you get written findings within a few business days.
- Prioritized findings report: severity, file and line, and a suggested fix for every item.
- Read by a person: a senior Webisoft engineer, not a scanner with a report template.
- Yours to keep: act on it with us or without us. No invoice either way.
Your code is never retained, shared, or trained on. NDA on request. For private repos, invite [email protected] read-only and revoke access after.
Free code audit
Send us your code
A repo URL is easiest: public, or invite [email protected] to a private one. A pasted snippet works too.
From the knowledge base
Reading for the technically suspicious
The Free Code Audit Checklist (DIY Before You Book)
A practical self-audit checklist (secrets, auth, dependencies, tests, error handling, performance) you can run on your own codebase this week.
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How a Professional Code Audit Actually Works, Step by Step
From scoping and read-only access to the findings report: the actual mechanics of a professional code audit, stage by stage, minus the mystique.
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One last nudge
The audit is free. The bugs aren't.
Two minutes to submit. A few days for findings. Worst case, you get independent confirmation that your codebase is in good shape, which is worth having in writing.
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