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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

The importance of architecture


Architectures are primarily concerned with structures and the interrelationships of the components that are used to build them.

Let's take an example; here we have two pictures, the Great Pyramid of Giza and Cologne Cathedral:

On the left is the Great Pyramid, which is 150 meters high and built using 7.5 million tons of rocks.

The other picture is Cologne Cathedral, which is 157 meters high and built using 160,000 tons of rocks.

Now the question that arises in our mind is why we are comparing these two. What is the difference? Are both of these built using different technologies?

No, both are built using rocks. The immensely colossal difference is the way the architects have utilized architecture in the Pyramid and Cathedral. This has allowed the Cathedral to have more space, more height, and a lot more light by using virtually 50% fewer rocks. This is the motivation behind architecture. An application that is built with a lack of perceivable architecture will end...