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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

Risk


The intersection between assets (A), threats (T), and vulnerabilities (V) is risk. However, including risk along with the probability (P) of occurrence of the threats might result in more value added to the business:

These terms will help us understand the real risk to any given asset. The business will benefit only if these risks are assessed accurately. Understanding threats, vulnerabilities, and risks is the first step in threat modeling.

For a given application, if there are no vulnerabilities or there is a vulnerability with no threats, it is considered to be low-risk. We will discuss more about the risk model in a later section.