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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

Approach to threat models


There is no scientific approach to a threat model. One can define their own threat model, which will broadly look at two contexts. One is the security controls that have been implemented while staying in line with the requirements and policy, and the other is the potential attacks that might affect an asset in a threat model.

In general, there are three approaches to a threat model:

  • Software-centric: This approach is also known as architecture-centric, system-centric or design-centric. It always starts from the design of the system and involves the complete data flow diagrams (DFDs), including the elements and different components, and it looks for different types of attacks against each of them.

  • Asset-centric: The asset-centric approach involves assets that hold the responsibility of any sensitive information, such as health data, financial data, and so on. In order to prioritize, the risk assets are classified according to their data sensitivity (What are your...