Amy Schurr
As organizations seek to reduce costs and gain efficiencies, automation plays an increasingly important role in mobile application security. Automated mobile app security and privacy testing tools enable organizationes and public-sector agencies to slash the costs of penetration testing by at least 50% and boost the productivity of security analysts tenfold.
What will 2020 hold for mobile application security? NowSecure predicts we’ll see an intensified focus on privacy, mobile DevSecOps gaining traction and ample activity around wearables and Internet of Things (IoT). Here are some of the mobile appsec trends and challenges that our experts anticipate we’ll see in 2020.
While corporations widely recognize the convenience and productivity enhancements that mobile applications deliver to their customers and employees, too few realize that mobile apps also can present significant security and privacy risks. It’s not difficult to find examples of mobile app data breaches that resulted in severe consequences, both in terms of money and corporate reputation. Given that smartphone apps account for 63% of total digital minutes, according to the Comscore “2019 Global State of Mobile” report, it stands to reason that attackers are going where the traffic is.
To enable digital transformation, financial institution accelerates the DevOps pipeline and protects users with mobile app security testing and vetting solutions. Learn more about the benefits the bank achieved in this case study.
Both static and dynamic security testing are essential components of the mobile app software development life cycle (SDLC). While Static Application Security Testing (SAST) tests snippets of source code, Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST) fully exercises the compiled mobile binary as a user would. Read more about the misconceptions of DAST for mobile.
NowSecure is proud to help sponsor DevOps World | Jenkins World on August 12 – 15. The San Francisco event brings brings together thought leaders and practitioners in the Jenkins ecosystem to learn, network with their peers and shape the future of Jenkins. To help plan your time at the conference, we suggest the following DevSecOps agenda to zero in on the intersection of DevOps and mobile appsec. Come see NowSecure at Booth 1129.