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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

Security mind map for developers (iOS and Android)


A mind map is a graphical way to represent an idea or concept. We have probably seen plenty of mind maps for pretty much every attack scenario on the Internet. One of the best for securing home computers can be found at http://www.amanhardikar.com/mindmaps/SHC.html. In this section, let us create a mind map for securing a given mobile app that may potentially reduce the number of vulnerabilities by simple code-level changes and configuration edits. The following screenshot provides the mind map for all the potential elements involved in securing a mobile app:

The mind map in this section has been broadly classified into three main sub-levels for any given mobile app:

  • Device level: In this level, all the security features related to the device must be addressed.

  • Network level: Securing all the communications between the device and the server.

  • Server level: Protection of the server. A vulnerable server can expose all the user data, which can...