Monthly Archive: January, 2018

These days, people depend on mobile apps for multiple reasons in their everyday life. So naturally, the app developing business is booming and thousands of new apps are hitting the market each week. It is extremely exciting to be a part of this digital evolution, but there are also many risks that come along with it.

We know better than most that mobile application developers have a lot on their minds. Between development and marketing, developers face roughly a million decisions before their app even launches, decisions that could ultimately decide whether their work connects with their intended audience or is dead on arrival.

Since smartphones and tablets have become such an integral part of everyday life, hackers and other malicious users have truly evolved their methods and devised more invasive, damaging ways to manipulate an application’s code and exploit sensitive customer data for their own ends.

Rules are made to be broken, right? Maybe. Some mobile application security taboos are relics of a bygone era — or the product of mistaken security wisdom. Sound mobile application security is constantly changing in response to cultural shifts, emerging threats, and new technologies. So the rules you thought you knew might be the very rules you now need to...