Mobile App Security Testing
Mobile Application Security Assessment helps you identify the
production readiness of you mobile application.
Today organizations are using Mobile Applications extensively for seamless business experience for its workplace and customers. These applications range from banking applications, healthcare platforms, m-commerce apps and other business applications. Identifying and mitigating security risks of these mobile apps are paramount for protecting the workforce and customers.
With our industry leading security researchers, we provide in-depth testing of mobile apps including the on-device security weaknesses, back-end web services, API services. Our rich experience of conducting more than 1000 mobile app security testing enables us to perform mobile application security assessments quickly and efficiently.
Key Focus Areas of Mobile App Security Testing
Mobile App on device security
Analyse how the mobile application interacts with the platform in secure state and in the jailbreak state.
Local data storage security
Controls for protection of sensitive data, if stored locally, such as user credentials, private information
Data in Motion
Assessment of controls such as encryption while transmitting sensitive data to back-end systems
Authentication and Authorization
Assessment of authentication and authorization controls. Review of session and token management
Web services and API back-end
Assess the security of Web Services and API consumed by the mobile application
Manual Review
Our Mobile Application Security Assessment utilizes a great amount of manual testing
Reverse Engineering
We will simulate hacker techniques such as reverse engineering to understand the working of app
Binary & File Level Analysis
Review the application binary and perform file level analysis for identifying vulnerabilities
Mobile App Source code review
Perform automated and manual code review for identifying security weaknesses in the code.
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Methodology For Mobile App Security Testing
Gather Mobile App Information
Our team gathers information about the application, use cases, business logic and other useful information about the mobile application
Threat Modelling
Application Mapping
Identify the application details and map them to various aspects of threat profile created. Some parameters include (a) Key chains, brute-force attacks, parameter tampering (b) Malicious input, fuzzing (c) SQLite database password fields, configuration file encryption (d) Session IDs, time lockouts (e) Error and exception handling (f) Logs, access control to logs.
Client Side Attack Simulation
Key focus areas of client side attack simulation are (a) Interaction with platform (b) Local storage (c) use of encryption (d) binary & final analysis (e) insecure API calls and (f) files with adequate access controls.
Network Layer Attack Simulation
Back-end / Server side attack simulation
Back-end / Server side attack simulation
Reporting & re-tests
Re-tests are performed to validate the closure of vulnerabilities.
Benefits of Penetration Testing
This second phase of the project is to develop the controls to treat the risks identified. NESA Risk Treatment Plan provides the directions for this phase of the implementation.
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