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Mobile Application Testing

Mobile Applications present a primary target for real-world attacks as they can often access business-critical systems, present an alternative path to web apps to compromise your business and can often contain more critical security issues than traditional web applications.

A number of specific security vulnerabilities are known to impact mobile applications and can result from outdated software, misconfigurations, and insecure coding practices.

Our team have over 10 years of expertise focused on security testing practices.

We identify, evaluate and communicate the issues which pose a risk to your business.

We utilise a combination of best practice methodologies alongside years of industry experience

We use tried and tested approaches to identify the issues which present a critical risk to your business and mobile devices..

Our experienced cyber security professionals ensure you stay informed throughout the assessment process.

Through regular communication, scheduled calls, and ongoing support, we ensure you have all the information needed to understand and improve your cyber security posture.

Why Conduct A Security Assessment

Security incidents are often reported to have impacted over half of businesses and lead to costs and impacts which can be difficult to recover from. Mobile application security testing can help to provide assurance to your clients, peace of mind to your business owners, and to proactively address risks.

On average, over a hundred new vulnerabilities are disclosed each day, which may affect the security of your mobile applications.

Conducting a penetration test can uncover the vulnerabilities which impact your business and help to identify solutions to improve your security posture.

Cyber Security has become increasingly prevalent as a client, partner and supplier requirement.

Penetration testing can evidence your commitment to cybersecurity, illustrate your proactive approach to security and demonstrate a seriousness to information security best practices, helping to maintain the confidence of existing clients and win new business.

Where a cyber security incident does occur, there are often several associated costs involved, such as the time and resources required for recovery, and any relevant fines and penalties which may be levied against your business for not managing information security effectively.

Conducting a penetration test can identify the areas of risk within your business and help to produce a cost-effective approach and targeted strategy to address these security weaknesses.

Multiple compliance standards focus on your cyber security posture and how a business manages information security effectively.

Regular Penetration Testing has become a staple component of compliance requirements, and can be conducted to align with your certification standards, and improve your organisation’s overall reputation for the secure management of information security.

Benefits of A Security Assessment

Mobile App penetration tests offer a range of benefits for your business to help improve overall security posture and gain a detailed knowledge of the real-world mobile application attacks which can impact your business.

The cost of a cyber security incident can quickly escalate due to downtime, reputational impacts, and information security fines. Implementing cyber security measures can also be a costly exercise if not focused on the areas which present a critical business risk.

Penetration testing services, can help to inform a vulnerability and risk management strategy, reducing the risk of an incident and targeting cyber security measures where needed.

Conducting a mobile penetration test can highlight the risks which attackers may use to steal user credentials and gain access to your business-critical systems.

This allows proactive steps to be taken to improve cyber security and resolve potential vulnerabilities.

Through conducting mobile penetration testing your teams can gain insight into how insecure development practices can introduce vulnerabilities into your systems, and how these compromises can lead to additional cyber attacks.

This information can be used to guide improvements to enhance your cyber security.

Our Approach

We deliver expert cybersecurity services designed to protect, optimise, and future-proof your business, ensuring resilience, compliance & peace of mind in an ever-evolving digital landscape.

Working alongside our cybersecurity consultants with over a decade of industry experience throughout your entire assessment process, from initial enquiry to project summary.

We provide help, support and guidance to ensure each of your security requirements are met.

Receive updates on your security weaknesses throughout the assessment.

Ensuring you stay informed and are never left in the dark about how your penetration test is progressing.

The specific cyber security concerns your organisation has can vary, and it’s important to our team that your individual concerns and risks are always addressed.

Our penetration testing team work with you to produce and deliver a report which meets your requirements and helps achieve your goals.

Security assessments don’t end with the report. Remediation, reassessments, and vulnerability management strategies all present ongoing challenges to address after a penetration test.

Our team ensure ongoing support is always available to help you address your immediate risks and achieve ongoing cyber security.

Popular Questions

The OWASP Mobile Top Ten presents a list of the most common vulnerabilities which impact both Android and iOS applications and can present a risk to your mobile security. This list includes:

  • Insecure Data Storage
  • Improper Credential Usage
  • Broken Authentication methods
  • Security Misconfigurations
  • Sensitive Data Exposure

Mobile Apps can be vulnerable in many different ways and can therefore present a range of different risks to a business.

  • Insecure authentication methods can lead to the compromise of user accounts. This could then allow access to sensitive client data.
  • Injection attacks can result in access to underlying databases, user credentials, and in some cases, lead to access to the operating system for the affected device.
  • The exposure of sensitive data, even email addresses, can aid in additional attacks such as targeted Phishing campaigns against your employees, clients, partners or suppliers.Insecure authentication methods can lead to the compromise of user accounts. This could then allow access to sensitive client data.
  • Injection attacks can result in access to underlying databases, user credentials, and in some cases, lead to access to the operating system for the affected device.
  • The exposure of sensitive data, even email addresses, can aid in additional attacks such as targeted Phishing campaigns against your employees, clients, partners or suppliers.

Where a security issue does occur, there are several aspects which can impact your business:

  • The time required to recover from a security breach and restore your systems can incur costs such as recruiting people to aid in the recovery and the loss of business during any downtime.
  • The ongoing impacts on your business reputation can impact current and potential clients’ likelihood to work with you, as it can be seen as a security risk.
  • Fines and penalties can be levied against your business where a data breach occurs that impacts client data and personal data.

There are different benefits from both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing and each should be considered and applied for different reasons.

  • Vulnerability scanners and automated tools are useful for speed and are cost-effective, allowing them to be run on a regular basis. This is useful to identify the latest available security updates for known vulnerabilities, and can help maintain your ongoing security.
  • Penetration testing is useful for in-depth assessments, highlighting and contextualising API security vulnerabilities which scanning tools are often not able to identify. This can be useful when conducted on an annual basis, or after significant changes.

Although there can be several overlapping areas for security and testing techniques with a mobile application penetration test, Mobile Apps have their own mobile security framework, based on static and dynamic analysis, which can be followed to ensure your business apps are developed to a secure standard.

  • As Android and iOS apps are available on their respective stores for download, it provides an opportunity for attackers to download and review the codebase for each application. This can lead to vulnerability identification, sensitive data disclosure, and access to hardcoded credentials.
  • Many Mobile apps will still communicate with a central server, using API calls. These requests can present similar issues as web application security risks and lead to further compromise of the business and its sensitive data.

Mobile applications often present vulnerabilities in two main ways. These can be identified through Static Application Security Testing (SAST) and Dynamic Application Security Testing (DAST).

  • SAST is a method of reviewing mobile app security where a review of the source code is conducted to identify vulnerabilities within the code and the mobile app functionality. This process typically requires access to the source code which was used to develop the mobile app.
  • DAST is a method of reviewing the running mobile application security. This can be done through a review of how the mobile app handles user-supplied input, issues requests to an API and processes data that it is supplied with. This process often doesn’t require special access or permissions and is considered more of a real-world attack scenario.

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