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A mobile app security testing tool must meet the needs of your DevOps team and help them quickly find and fix vulnerabilities. Look for solutions that integrate with the Devs toolchain via plug-ins or APIs and interoperates with other tools to aid the mission of developing secure mobile apps faster.
The attention surrounding GDPR has intensified public awareness and attention about data privacy issues like never before. This is especially true for mobile apps such as Facebook. As Facebook endures scrutiny over data collection processes, the company suffered a stock plunge and continues to lose users. Organizations can use GDPR as a privacy framework to shape steps to safeguard user data and privacy.
Would you install an IoT security camera outside your home but not bother to lock the front door? Didn’t think so. That’s why we recommend focusing on the mobile security initiatives that proactively tackle the most threats. They include choosing a more secure device and mobile OS, deploying MDM and conducting mobile app vetting. Learn how these best practices for mobile security work together to reduce risk.
Mature mobile app development shops need security testing tools that provide a high degree of coverage, accuracy, remediation advice and timely updates. Automated security testing can help reduce friction in the dev pipeline and better enable DevSecOps by keeping security analysts and developers on the same page.
We’ve compiled a cheat sheet of commonly used DevOps metrics that those adopting a DevSecOps discipline will find useful. Read on to learn more about the metrics that support two main categories of improvements to the mobile app software development lifecycle (SDLC): Speed and quality as they pertain to application security.
Are you heading to the RSA Conference 2019 in San Francisco next week to meet with fellow cybersecurity professionals? You’ll want to build your agenda now because RSA recommends reserving a seat for your chosen sessions before the event. The NowSecure team will be there all week. We’re excited to be co-sponsoring the official DevSecOps […]
Session replay is a technique that allows app developers to view screenshots, screen recordings, and touch events of how a user interacts with an app. Depending on how this technique is implemented, it can have some serious impacts to a user’s privacy. Based on recent news event, Apple already has started to notify app developers that they should obtain consent and inform users if they are being recorded.
Dating apps pose particular privacy concerns due to the massive amount of personal information stored and exchanged by users. NowSecure recently analyzed the cybersecurity risk level of 50 publicly available dating mobile apps available in the Apple® App Store® and Google Play™. Find out what we discovered and how organizations and users can protect themselves.
The Frida 12.3 open-source software dynamic instrumentation toolkit offers an exciting new app crash reporting feature that provides more details about failed jobs and enhances iOS crash reporting. Learn about this new capability and how it saves Frida users time and improves the experience of NowSecure customers.
Amidst increasing concern over compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and data privacy, we tested 50 Android mobile apps for young kids for security and privacy risk. The findings show worrisome vulnerabilities in webview, network and Inter-Component Communication.