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With the increase in the use of mobile applications for the provision of services, there is a need to adopt more stringent security measures than those for web or traditional applications. The services of Safecore for mobile application penetration testing and vulnerability assessment are designed to examine security and identify vulnerabilities in any type of mobile application.

The Mobile Application Security Testing service offered by Safecore, an application security analysis for iOS and Android platforms, is customizable depending on the programming language used in the development of native apps, such as Objective-C, Swift, Java or Kotlin, or those created with hybrid frameworks such as React, React Native, Cordova, Xamarin, Titanium Appcelerator, Ionic or PhoneGap.

Why choose a Mobile App Penetration Testing service?

Why Protect Apps?

Mobile apps are now extremely widespread like the devices from which they take their name. They can be used to deliver services to the public or to selected users, with clear advantages: ease of use, immediate availability, constant contact, brand strengthening, personalized and geolocated services.

There are many companies that have invested in mobile applications, but often there is little attention to security as the vulnerabilities and related possibilities of attack by a malicious user are less known.

But just as the app is a convenient gateway to the organization's digital assets, it can also become a point of vulnerability: for the intellectual property contained and for its function as an external node of the network.

Safecore is constantly updated on the latest developments in Mobile Security, both from the point of view of the attacker and the developer who has to defend the application. Safecore provides the best analytics service possible for its customers through the use of manual techniques and advanced tools.

The Goal of a Mobile App Penetration Testing

PURPOSE

Carrying out a complete security analysis on the applications developed or put into circulation, before their launch on the market, is essential to detect potential weaknesses effectively and promptly, preventing them from turning into serious problems that can damage financially or ruin your reputation. of the company.

It is recommended that organizations perform penetration testing on mobile apps to identify and resolve vulnerabilities that could undermine the security of the application itself, the data processed or the APIs used. These tests should be carried out in a specific test environment, at the beginning of the release phase in the software development life cycle. After completing penetration testing and resolving vulnerabilities, the app and related web services are ready to move to the production phase.

Areas of interest and final report

An application can be a convenient gateway to an organization's digital assets, but at the same time it also represents a possible point of vulnerability.

AREAS OF INTEREST

  • Comprehensive evaluations adhering to OWASP Mobile App Testing
  • Evaluate both the app itself and the supporting infrastructure behind it; session management, encryption, input sanitization, and more.
  • Dynamic analysis and manipulation of web API calls
  • Manual and semi-automatic analysis of static code.

 

FINAL REPORT

  • Comprehensive security findings report, detailing the tools and methods used during testing
  • Executive briefing to discuss business impact scenarios
  • Technical briefing for root cause analysis and remediation of exploitable vulnerabilities
  • Test artifacts to enable validation of remediation efforts

How mobile penetration testing works

The Mobile App Penetration Test service by Safecore it is intended to emulate an attack that seeks out and identifies these vulnerabilities to exploit them to its advantage. The purpose of a security pen test of this type is in fact to anticipate the attack attempts that malicious or unfair competitors could attempt once the App has been introduced on the market.

Experts from Safecore they examine both the app in its environment (the device) and the interaction with the back-end systems, verifying the effectiveness of the protections put in place both on the basis of the knowledge of the known vulnerabilities, and by testing any specific critical interactions in the field of the analyzed App.

For greater effectiveness and efficiency it is essential that all security pen tests on mobile applications are carried out before distribution, or before the release of a new version, in order to optimize the effort and not have to resort to distributions or emergency deployments afterwards to identify flaws or weaknesses.

How does the mobile penetration test take place?

The test is performed through static and dynamic analysis of the code, applying reverse engineering techniques, intercepting calls to the operating system and to all network connections.

Also the experts of Safecore verify each input validation mechanism analyze the security of the back-end, using the entire set of known techniques for each logical level of the App's operating process. Among the techniques used we find, for example, Offensive Security at the Network level and at the Web Services level.

Following the results obtained from the Mobile Penetration testing, Safecore provides a comprehensive report, suggesting appropriate countermeasures. In subsequent phases it is possible for the experts and technicians to actively intervene, for example by supporting the client company with mobile application protection techniques such as code obfuscation or string encryption. These services naturally constitute the next step if critical issues or weaknesses in the App are identified.

Who can benefit?

Any business or entity that uses mobile apps, whether created within the organization or developed externally.

Mobile Penetration Testing is the ideal method to confirm the reliability of what is offered by third parties and to reduce the risk of attacks on devices and systems that are frequently not under the direct control of the company's internal IT staff.

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