Mobile Application Security Assessment
Businesses reaching end users via mobile apps drives the modern world. However, it should be done without introducing risk at the expense of end users–that’s where a mobile application security assessment comes into play
Testing (Way) Beyond Automation
Our Mobile Application Security Assessments (MASA) are run from and connected to a customized assessment environment, consisting of wireless access points, proxies, and a variety of commercial and custom mobile application security assessment tools.
Our team uses real-world scenarios and proven testing standards to simulate an adversary’s approach for attacking a mobile app or accessing sensitive data on users’ mobile devices. Our methodology allows us to provide an accurate understanding of actual risk.
Benefits of Mobile App Security Testing
In today’s hyper-connected world, mobile applications are key to inclusivity and long-term success. Organizations are constantly at risk of having their mobile apps’ security vulnerabilities compromised by threat actors, which means they need a way to consistently and quickly identify vulnerabilities to safeguard their resources and data. Mobile application security testing allows organizations to simulate a cyber attack in order to reveal vulnerabilities that would have otherwise gone unnoticed.
It’s important that you protect the security and integrity of your mobile applications with regular and standardized mobile app security testing — you can’t afford to go without mobile app security testing in 2023 and beyond. To that end, we’ve gathered the most important benefits of mobile app security testing:
Risk Management: Regular mobile application security testing allows you to eliminate vulnerabilities that are present within the interfaces of your mobile apps and, therefore, heavily mitigate the risk of experiencing data breaches.
Cost Reduction: Mobile app security testing allows your organization to save both resources and money in the long run; regular mobile app security testing identifies vulnerabilities early on in the application development process, meaning you won’t need to worry about potentially incurring legal, technical, and PR losses in the event your application is breached once it goes live.
Stress-Free Application Launches: Mobile application security assessments provide your developers with peace of mind since they’ll know that the applications they’ve created have been tested as thoroughly as possible in order to eliminate potential systemic vulnerabilities and bugs, leading to a worry-free app launch process.
The Art of Testing Mobile Apps
Given the nature of modern iOS and Android mobile apps, we perform extensive manual mobile application security assessments. We validate any identified communication channels for proper confidentiality and integrity, monitoring the application execution on the device(s).
Our mobile application security risk assessments also examine the device from a high-level, forensic perspective in order to identify areas where the application may be storing or caching sensitive information in an insecure manner.
From Reverse Engineering to Deep Analysis & Penetration Testing
After reverse-engineering the application binary to the furthest extent possible, we analyze it for information leakage or hard-coded secrets. Throughout our security testing of mobile apps, we map the back-end environment and test any in-scope components for vulnerabilities. Checks include vulnerabilities listed in the OWASP Top 10 Mobile Risks:
- M1: Improper Platform Usage
- M2: Insecure Data Storage
- M3: Insecure Communication
- M4: Insecure Authentication
- M5: Insufficient Cryptography
- M6: Insecure Authorization
- M7: Client Code Quality
- M8: Code Tampering
- M9: Reverse Engineering
- M10: Extraneous Functionality
Certifications
Put an ELITE Highly-Trained Team on Your Side
More than 70% of our workforce consists of tenured cybersecurity engineers, architects and consultants
SANS GIAC-Cyber Guardian
CISSP
OSCP
OSCE
GSE
GPEN
GWAPT