{"id":1054,"date":"2016-02-19T09:17:27","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T09:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallop.net\/blog\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2021-04-12T13:28:27","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T07:58:27","slug":"10-critical-activities-test-security-of-mobile-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cigniti.com\/blog\/10-critical-activities-test-security-of-mobile-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Critical Activities to Test Security of Mobile Applications"},"content":{"rendered":"

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3G and 4G network enabled smart phones are today being used more and more for accessing the Internet, for performing financial, business, and social transactions, and for media consumption. However, the safety of the data being consumed by the end user using the apps distributed via mobile application stores, poses a big security issue.<\/p>\n

To add to this, Gartner predicts that almost 25% of organizations will launch their own apps by 2017.<\/p>\n

While this will make creating new apps much more efficient, it may also become a reason-of-feast for the hackers as they will have more to hack into. It\u2019s only a full-fledged security testing enabled environment that will save the apps (and the companies) from otherwise leaking a big load of personal data from the mobiles.<\/p>\n

In short \u2013 security of the apps will be vitally business-critical.<\/p>\n

So, what can be done about this? What really is needed?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An app testing strategy that will not only analyse the security risks involved of using an app on the smartphones \u2013 but also support in eliminating the same.<\/p>\n

When the men-in-the-middle (MITM) attack apps that communicate sensitive information, and manipulate the same for their benefit, a secure SSL certificate validation* can mitigate the risk. However, this is easier said than done as billions of app users use risky untrusted networks, making them an easy prey to the MITMs.<\/p>\n

All mobile apps fall in one of the following three main categories:<\/p>\n