Security Compliance
Every project built at Apex Horizons follows industry-recognized security frameworks and standards through deliberate, secure coding practices.
CompTIA Security+ SY0-701 — GRC
- Risk assessments & threat modeling guide every feature decision
- Governance policies enforced through code review & access controls
- Compliance auditing built into CI/CD pipelines
- Incident response procedures documented and tested
CertNexus CSSD — Secure Software Development
- Threat modeling applied at design phase
- Input validation and output encoding on all user-facing interfaces
- Dependency scanning & software composition analysis
- Secure defaults — least privilege, fail-safe, deny by default
GDPR — General Data Protection Regulation
- Minimal data collection — only what is necessary
- User consent captured before any data processing
- Right to erasure honored on request
- Data encrypted in transit (TLS) and at rest
HIPAA — Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act
- PHI never stored unless explicitly required by the project scope
- Access controls restrict PHI to authorized roles only
- Audit logs maintained for all PHI access events
- Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) in place where applicable
OWASP Top 10
- A01 Broken Access Control — role-based auth enforced server-side
- A02 Cryptographic Failures — strong hashing (bcrypt/argon2), TLS everywhere
- A03 Injection — parameterized queries, no dynamic SQL or shell calls
- A04 Insecure Design — threat modeling at architecture stage
- A05 Security Misconfiguration — hardened defaults, secrets in env vars
- A06 Vulnerable Components — automated dependency auditing
- A07 Auth Failures — MFA support, session expiry, brute-force limits
- A08 Software & Data Integrity — signed commits, verified build artifacts
- A09 Logging & Monitoring — structured logs, anomaly alerting
- A10 SSRF — allowlist-only outbound requests, no user-controlled URLs
Standards are reviewed and updated as frameworks evolve. Last reviewed April 2026.