Code Audit · Cambridge
Code Audit in Cambridge
An examination of a Cambridge organisation's codebase, looking for the things that are expensive to discover later. Dependency licences that conflict with how the product is sold, credentials committed years ago and still in the history, and the parts of the system only one person understands.
Why this comes up
The problem
Nobody has looked at what the dependencies are licensed under, and a key was committed in 2021 and never rotated.
What you get
What we deliver
- Dependency licences catalogued, with anything incompatible with your model flagged
- Secrets searched for across the whole history, not just the current files
- Dependency currency assessed, including what is unmaintained upstream
- Test coverage examined where it matters rather than as a headline percentage
- Concentration risk identified — the areas one person alone can safely change
- Findings ranked by consequence, with an honest view of what can be left alone
Want this scoped for your business in Cambridge?
Thirty minutes, no charge, no sales script. You leave with a written summary of what code audit would actually involve — whether or not you use us.
Working in Cambridge
East of England
Cambridge has the densest deep-tech and biotech cluster in the country, so briefs here are frequently technical from the first conversation and the interesting problems are rarely the obvious ones.
Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling.
Sectors we work with in Cambridge
- Technology
- Life Sciences
- Research
- Higher Education
- Biotech
What we work with
Technologies and platforms
- GitHub
- SonarQube
- Snyk
- Trivy
Who we work with
Industries we serve
- Software companies
- SaaS businesses
- Financial services
- Healthcare technology
- Startups
Why us
Why Cambridge businesses choose Asionis
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise
How we work
- Step 1
Free consultation
A 30-minute call to understand the problem. You keep the written summary either way.
- Step 2
Proposal
Scope, timeline and a fixed price, in writing, before anything starts.
- Step 3
Build
Short cycles with regular check-ins, so you see progress rather than hear about it.
- Step 4
Launch and support
We handle the go-live and stay available afterwards.
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Code Audit in Cambridge — common questions
- Why do dependency licences matter?
- Because some of them impose conditions on how you distribute your own software. A copyleft library pulled in three levels deep can carry obligations that conflict with selling a closed product, and this is routinely discovered during a funding round rather than before it.
- Why search the whole history for secrets?
- Because removing a key from the current version does not remove it from the repository. Anything committed remains retrievable unless the history is rewritten, so a credential deleted in a later commit is still there — and still valid if nobody rotated it.
- Is test coverage a useful measure?
- Only when read carefully. A high percentage achieved by testing trivial code alongside an untested payment path is worse than a lower figure concentrated where failure is costly, so the useful question is what is covered rather than how much.
- What does the report look like?
- Ordered by what happens if it is ignored, and explicit about what is acceptable. Every codebase contains things that could be better, and an audit listing four hundred of them equally is a document nobody reads — whereas six items that genuinely threaten the business, with the rest recorded as known and tolerated, is something a team can act on this quarter.
- Do you work with businesses across Cambridgeshire?
- Yes. We are based in Leicester, United Kingdom and work with clients throughout East of England, including Cambridge and the surrounding Cambridgeshire area. Most collaboration happens remotely, and we travel for kick-offs and key milestones.
- What kind of Cambridge businesses do you usually work with?
- Deep-tech and biotech clients bring genuinely technical briefs, often involving data pipelines, instrumentation or research tooling. Beyond that we work across Technology, Life Sciences, Research, Higher Education and Biotech.
- Do you cover the areas around Cambridge?
- Yes — we work throughout East of England, including Norwich, Milton Keynes, London, Northampton. Cambridge is an urban area of roughly 150,000+, and we take on work across the wider Cambridgeshire region rather than the city boundary alone.
Talk to us about Code Audit in Cambridge
A 30-minute call with someone who would actually work on it. No sales script, no obligation.
- Projects typically launched within 4–8 weeks
- No long-term contracts required
- All team members UK-based
- Dedicated account manager and development team
- Transparent reporting with monthly performance metrics
- Scalable from startup to enterprise