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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By : Vijay Kumar Velu
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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

By: Vijay Kumar Velu

Overview of this book

Mobile security has come a long way over the last few years. It has transitioned from "should it be done?" to "it must be done!"Alongside the growing number of devises and applications, there is also a growth in the volume of Personally identifiable information (PII), Financial Data, and much more. This data needs to be secured. This is why Pen-testing is so important to modern application developers. You need to know how to secure user data, and find vulnerabilities and loopholes in your application that might lead to security breaches. This book gives you the necessary skills to security test your mobile applications as a beginner, developer, or security practitioner. You'll start by discovering the internal components of an Android and an iOS application. Moving ahead, you'll understand the inter-process working of these applications. Then you'll set up a test environment for this application using various tools to identify the loopholes and vulnerabilities in the structure of the applications. Finally, after collecting all information about these security loop holes, we'll start securing our applications from these threats.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Building Attack Paths – Threat Modeling an Application

The nation's protection relies on how it has been modeled to protect itself from probable threats.

In this chapter, we will discuss some basic principles of threat modeling a mobile application and how it can benefit the organization. We will also discuss and define the use cases for a given mobile application. The reader will walk away with the understanding of why and how a threat model is important in order to identify things such as the application's purpose and industry. We will cover:

  • How to build a threat model around a mobile application

  • How to build attack paths and attack trees for a given threat model

One thing we can learn from past and current trends is that it is not possible to provide a 100% secure application against all attackers.

Before we go ahead and understand how to create a model, we need to understand the basic terms that are crucial to defining a threat model. We will go ahead and discuss the terms that...