Mobile Application Security
Application security process ensure that mobile app or APIs communicating with the apps are secure from potential attacks. Application security increases the apps operational efficiency by reducing the risk and improves the trust of users to use the app. Following are consideration that needs to be adopted for ensuring the secure mobile app development
- Data encryption
- SSL pin
- Mobile App Local database encryption
- Saving sensitive Mobile app data
- App Sandboxing
Data encryption
Defining of protecting the local mobile data stored as part of the app. Define how the data will be encrypted. Focus on right solutions for data storage and securing the mobile app data
SSL pin
SSL certificates should be configured for manipulating network traffic. With SSL pinning when the app connects with a server, it compares the certificate with the pinned certificate. When there is a match, the server is trusted, and SSL connection gets established
Mobile App Local database encryption
Define the app local database protection by that how the apps offline data and entities should be protected by encryption mechanism
Saving sensitive Mobile app data
The application should follow the appropriate encryption mechanism for secure transfer/ save of application data.
Defining the use of secure keychain access to secure the app sensitive data e.g. user details in iOS platform.
App Sandboxing
App sandboxing is technique in iOS to ensure the security of the application data to ensure that application don’t share data with other applications installed on the same device.