What is a Security Audit?

CertiK
Jul 21, 2023

A security audit is an objective review of a particular codebase or smart contract.

The goal is to identify security vulnerabilities, optimizations, and coding styles.

Audits serve to mitigate smart contract risks. At this time there is no pass or fail in an audit.

It’s best to view them as an unbiased assessment. To access our audit head to the Security Leaderboard, find the project you’d like to review, go to their page.

Under ‘Audit History’ click ‘View PDF’. After the title page, you’ll see the Table of Contents, which gives an overview of the report. The summary section defines what is being audited, the process, and the goals of the security audit.

In Overview, you’ll find the ‘Project Summary’, ‘Audit Summary’, and ‘Vulnerability Summary’ Findings are where the vulnerabilities are broken down on a technical level.

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