The increasing usage of smartphones all around the world has called for high-end functionality, an uncompromising handiness and extra ease with less effort by its users. This has certainly boosted the demand for more innovative mobile apps. On the other hand, it has become vital for mobile users to safeguard their valuable mobile data from mobile hackers. As per a survey, mobile hackers have succeeded to hack numerous high-end and most popular apps on the app store as well as the play store.
Hence, it is clear that there are many prominent apps, comprising of iOS apps and Android apps that suffer from vulnerability issues. Thus one has to find a way to make the app secure. Now, as a mobile app developer, it is your duty to improve the overall security of your app so as to give your users assurance of complete security. This way they can use your app for the long-term.
Often it happens that most of the app users leave the app midway due to lack of security of their mobile information. Hence you are liable as a mobile app developer or a mobile app development company to enhance knowledge of mobile application security.
Escalating security issues concerning mobile apps
• As per recent research by Arxan, it was found that:
• The top 100 paid Android apps on the Google Play Store had been hacked
• 73 percent of the most prominent free apps on the Google Play Store had been hacked
• 53 percent of most prominent free iOS apps on Apple Store has been hacked
• 56 percent of the top-paid iOS apps on the Apple Store had been hacked
Now, these findings of Arnax research are certainly alarming and is very scary for the corporate world as a significant number of firms are fast adopting BYOD (bring-your-own-device) policy, allowing its employees to enjoy a mobile experience event at the workplace.
A study conducted by the Ponemon Institute shows that 84 percent of smartphone consumers are using one single mobile device, for both works as well as personal purposes. This again adds the risk of business data hacking as it gets more challenging and problematic for IT departments to secure data access on enterprise systems.
In that manner, securing the mobile workforce is the need of the hour. Mobile app development companies in Singapore, mainly the ones related to enterprise mobility must make more efforts regarding product security as it puts their reputation at risk.
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Here are the ways to increase your mobile apps security knowledge that helps you in creating, deploying and executing secure mobile applications.
Mobile code security risks; time to secure your code
In most cases, mobile malware taps bugs in your mobile application design and coding. Research conducted by Kindsight in 2013 revealed that over 11.6 million mobile devices had been infected by malicious code and the number continues to grow.
The issue is quite serious as it is easy for hackers to obtain a public copy of your apps and reverse engineers it before you could take any action to exploit its vulnerability. Arnaz research shows, many prominent apps now contain malicious code. They are known as “rogue apps”, and hackers post them on several third-party app stores. This way they trick unsuspecting users and lure them to install these apps with malicious code. Resultantly, numerous innocent mobile users compromise their devices and their data unknowingly.
To deal with such frightening issues, it is vital that mobile app development companies provide robust tools to their mobile app developers thus enabling them to detect security vulnerabilities. Thus, appropriate action can be taken to protect their code and applications against any kind of tampering and reverse engineering. Even consumer apps require undergoing such a hardening process to ensure the security of your users’ device and data.
Ensure security of your App Data
In most instances, mobile apps access data, documents and other useful information are stored on the mobile device. When mobile gets lost, there are chances of data being lost, shared or misused. Thus, encryption of mobile data comes around as a crucial way to prevent valuable information. It works best for data security and protects it from malware and other types of unauthorized access. App data sharing can also be managed on the mobile device through encryption and by controlling the individual data elements.
Learn more about common application attacks
Out there you can easily find various reports and research related to the mobile security landscape, and it is advised to learn more about the most vulnerable areas of enterprises concerning mobile security. Get more information regarding the efforts put in by organizations, in their mobile security development. Where they lack? What is mobile security budgets? How can mobile security investments be prioritized?
You can find answers to these questions and more by studying the mobile security landscape. Besides you can go through popular blog posts on mobile security. On the internet, you can easily come across webinars to help you deal with mobile application security. This way you can gather immense information about many security issues and vulnerabilities in detail and then focus on those that matter to your organization.
App Testing & Security
In the app development, it is vital to make throughout the testing of your app. You must not hurry to launch your app without checking for its seamless coding and accurate testing. App security tools like App Scan can be used to make a thorough analysis of your app and validate its behavior before its release.
Such tools can be used to check the app’s security issues. Get the help of app security experts and examine your code to find and fix the bugs, if they’re in your app, before its release. Ensure the app is fully secure. You can use a third-party app security testing tool for app testing as it helps in making your app free and bugs and helps in enhancing your app security.
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Conclusion:
By gaining knowledge regarding mobile application security, mobile app development companies and developers can develop highly secure apps to prevent it from vulnerability. App security plays the primary role in a foolproof system development life cycle to secure the data of users.
