In 2014, we published our first security audit report. Since then, we have completed more than 200 audits and published more than half of those. The primary audience of an audit report is the client’s project development team. However, stakeholders and other interested parties can also find value in reading
In January, we celebrated the 10-year anniversary of our first ever published security audit report. At the time of our first review, security consulting for privacy-enhancing and distributed technologies was a fledgling industry, and there were very few companies, like us, offering our specialized knowledge and expertise for security analysis
Our work is more than a business for us: We see it as an avenue to advance the use of distributed technologies that empower users, especially their ability to control their own data, since privacy is a human right. These numbers demonstrate how our years of experience can directly contribute
Over the last few years we’ve been expanding our Ecosystem Support by including various Security Consulting offerings to meet the needs of the different ecosystems with which we are working. Although our main offering is still Security Audits of codebases and specifications for projects, we also offer consultation sessions, and
We want to alert the community that Manifest V2 extensions that are not already available in the Chrome Web Store will have to be reimplemented in the Manifest V3 extension platform in order to be published. As of January 2022, the Chrome Web Store stopped accepting new Manifest V2 extensions
2021 seems to be the year that we all accepted the term “Web3” as the way to refer to the collective movements of decentralizing infrastructure and empowering users to be in control. It means the next generation of the Internet and beyond, which includes the tokenization of things for digital
The Least Authority team reached a notable milestone this month, completing our 100th security audit with the publication of the Clorio Wallet + Mina Ledger JS audit report, funded by the Mina Foundation. Security audits are a key component of Least Authority’s security consulting services. They represent a significant part
Adequate preparation for a security audit is beneficial in a number of ways, both for the purposes of a security audit and in reinforcing development best practices that provide long-term benefits to projects and teams. Effective preparation enables security research teams to focus their efforts and time on reviewing the