Relaunching Core Secure Code: A Named Methodology for Secure Software Delivery
Secure software, from core to completion: a named, traceable methodology for custom software, not just a promise to "build it securely."
Mirability 2.0 (circa 2007) was focused on building custom web software for its clients. In an effort to produce more reliable results, we developed a software development methodology called Core Secure CodeSM. It was focused on making sure client requirements were well understood, documented, and traced from beginning to end.
Now, Mirability 3.0 (launched 2024), is relaunching Core Secure Code, as a Mirability's custom software development service. The modern Core Secure Code traces back to a secure SDLC practice we built in 2007, and this relaunch brings it forward with enhanced techniques built for modern development, a documented five-stage methodology, and a public site at www.coresecurecode.com.
Most teams treat security as a review that happens after the app is built. Core Secure Code builds it in from the first requirement: every engagement runs through Define, Design, Develop, Determine, and Deliver, and produces a signed, auditable record of what was built and why. Clients own the code and own the infrastructure.
The Five Stages
Define
Design
Develop
Determine
Deliver
See the full breakdown of what each stage produces, from signed requirements records to independent verification reports, on the Core Secure Code page.
Built for Technical and Regulated Buyers
Core Secure Code is aimed at businesses, whether startups, SMBs, or enterprises, who want a development partner or they can hold to a documented process, and at teams in regulated industries who need to show their work against standards like OWASP ASVS, NIST SSDF, ISO/IEC 27001, CIS Controls, SOC 2, and the CWE Top 25.
Engagements run one of two ways: a Project, fixed scope and fixed price once the Design-stage blueprint is signed, or a Team Retainer, ongoing capacity running the same five-stage methodology cycle after cycle. Either way, you own the code and the infrastructure at delivery.
Limited-Time Offer
$10k to MVP
From design to demo, one price. Limited to Project engagements starting July 2026, priced against an agreed-upon scope and MVP feature set. Ask about it when you reach out.
See the methodology
Read how Define-to-Deliver works and what each stage produces.