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Secvura

British application security company offering fixed-price security reviews and a free external Surface Check for startups and fast-moving SaaS teams.

Last updated September 27, 2026

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Overview

Secvura is a British application security company that positions itself around the needs of startups and fast-moving SaaS teams. Its core proposition is a fixed-price security review, published openly at £1,200, that promises a prioritised report within one to two weeks from kickoff. The company frames its work as helping teams that are "moving too fast to be slowed down" find the security weaknesses in their applications and the systems behind them, and telling them exactly what to fix. Secvura's offering has two layers. The first is a free, no-signup "Surface Check" that passively and read-only fingerprints a company's stack — including services such as Supabase, Firebase and Stripe — and automatically runs the external security checks that matter for each one. It produces a letter grade from A to F and a numeric score, with a sample result shown as "B · 82/100 · 6 issues found." The second layer is a full security review that goes inside the application, examining access control, authentication and logic flaws that an external scan cannot see. Deliverables from a full review include an Executive Summary written so a busy founder can read it in minutes, Detailed Findings that describe each issue, its location, its importance and how to fix it, and a Remediation Roadmap that ranks fixes by highest risk and lowest effort. Findings are scored by severity and fix effort, and the company says it responds to every business enquiry within one working day. Secvura explicitly supports modern web and SaaS stacks, naming tools such as Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Replit, Supabase and Next.js. Secvura also publishes aggregate data from its free checks. In August 2026 it reported results from 281 companies, and in September 2026 it published the Surface Security Index (Q3 2026) covering 284 external checks. Those reports found that most companies scored in the middle of the range — roughly a third A and a third B — while common gaps included missing MTA-STS policies, absent security.txt files, and missing security headers such as Referrer-Policy, Content-Security-Policy and X-Content-Type-Options. The company is careful to note that these are anonymous snapshots of companies that chose to run the tool, not representative market studies. Secvura is a private company. Public evidence describes it as a British application security company, and its website is the primary channel for its services, free tool and research blog.

History

Secvura is a British application security company. Public evidence describes it as such, and its website presents it as a provider of application security reviews for startups and fast-moving SaaS teams. The company's public-facing history is documented primarily through its website and blog, which describe its services and publish aggregate findings from its free Surface Check tool. Secvura's model centres on two offerings. The first is a free, no-signup Surface Check that passively and read-only fingerprints a company's stack — including services such as Supabase, Firebase and Stripe — and automatically runs the external security checks that matter for each one. It produces a letter grade from A to F and a numeric score, with a sample result shown as "B · 82/100 · 6 issues found." The second is a full security review that goes inside the application, examining access control, authentication and logic flaws that an external scan cannot see. The full review is published at a fixed price of £1,200, with a promised turnaround of one to two weeks from kickoff to report in hand and a one-working-day response to every business enquiry. Deliverables from a full review include an Executive Summary, Detailed Findings and a Remediation Roadmap. Findings are scored by severity and fix effort, and the company says it supports modern web and SaaS stacks, naming tools such as Lovable, Cursor, Bolt, v0, Replit, Supabase and Next.js. Secvura also publishes research based on its free checks. On 26 August 2026 it published "The state of startup external security: what 281 free checks revealed," reporting that most companies were in reasonable shape on the outside, with about a third scoring an A and another third a B. The report noted that serious problems such as expired certificates, domains with no DMARC at all, or sites served over plain HTTP were rare, while common issues were quiet, low-severity hardening gaps. On 14 September 2026 it published "The Surface Security Index (Q3 2026): what 284 external checks reveal," reporting a grade spread of A: 33%, B: 36%, C: 23%, D: 7%, F: 1%. The most common gaps included no MTA-STS policy (90%), no security.txt (65%), no Referrer-Policy (61%), no Content-Security-Policy (55%), missing X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff (45%), and clickjacking exposure (38%). The company explicitly caveated that these are anonymous snapshots of companies that chose to run the tool, not representative market studies. As of the available evidence, Secvura is a private company. No parent company, owner, founder, headquarters location or founding year is disclosed in the supplied sources.

  • Secvura publishes "The state of startup external security: what 281 free checks revealed".

  • Secvura publishes "The Surface Security Index (Q3 2026): what 284 external checks reveal".

Products and positioning

Security for companies moving too fast to be slowed down; fixed-price, transparent, startup-focused application security reviews.

  • Free Surface Check

    A free, no-signup, passive and read-only external security check that fingerprints a company's stack and runs relevant security checks, producing an A–F grade and numeric score.

  • Full application security review

    A fixed-price (£1,200) review that goes inside the application to examine access control, authentication and logic flaws, delivered as an Executive Summary, Detailed Findings and Remediation Roadmap.

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