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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 8. Securing Your Android and iOS Applications

Building Secure Apps is not an option, it is a necessity!

Developing mobile applications is not just developing a vision of what your app is going to look like, what it is going to do, what needs it fulfills, and how it will be created but also how secure it could be made. This chapter will cover straightforward examples on how to securely develop both Android and iOS applications; more importantly, it will also present resources that developers can use in their everyday lives. We will go through practical ways of securing Android component communications, and principles developers can stand by. We will precisely look at how to properly secure an app with fine-tuned permissions and configuration on both the platforms. The reader should walk away with knowledge of:

  • Android permissions and secure configurations

  • Securing Android application components

  • Securing and protecting sensitive data on both Android and iOS

  • Addressing OWASP top ten mobile...