This is something we help with a lot at Tinfoil (https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com). You can read our blog for useful tips and info, but we always recommend actually running our web application scans against your app in order to actually look for vulnerabilities. Is it as good as having 'tptacek or someone else from Matasano looking at it as a human? Not quite, since humans have more ingenuity. Is it better than reading a blog post and trying to follow 'best practices'? Infinitely.
Don't try to do it yourself.