My interview with Sonya Moisset

This is a very short review of security flaws I found when searching for a note-taking app I’d like to use. I decided to publish some of my findings with security improvement suggestions (because security is complicated). These tips might be useful for you even if you are not a…

—this is what people ask me often 😊 Below you’ll find my typical reply, that I’ll keep updating when changing my mind. 📕 I can really recommend a Serious Cryptography book. It’s awesome, easy-to-understand and covers many questions starting from discussing Randomness to Quantum Computing. 📒 Of course, the Practical…

This is a small handout doc following my talk “Zero Knowledge Architecture for mobile applications”, which I gave at several conferences during the autumn of 2017. Sensitive data narrative If you want to hear the story about sensitive data we have and how we use it, please read through the slides or…

Some of you know, and some of you don’t, but we all fail at building secure mobile apps. Today we going to talk about key management. We start our journey step by step: discovering infrastructure layout, digging into ideas of threats, trust, and keys. Discussing key management system: what is…

That’s the follow-up to the talk I first gave at #appbuilders16 conference in Zurich, Switzerland. We’ll talk a bit about the most undervalued part of mobile security: ideas and concepts. Another name for this talk could be “Everything Will Be Broken,” but what should we do? Intro: this is the picture Let’s take a look…

That’s the follow-up of several talks about data protection for mobile applications I gave at the end of 2015. Geography is wide: twice in Ukraine (mdday.lviv.ua, CocoaHeads Kyiv #7); once in Amsterdam, Netherlands at do{iOS} conf; and in Minsk, Belarus at CocoaConfBy. We, mobile app developers, usually consider security to…

UPD: Parse.com announced its shutting down :( But we know what to do next! Life After Parse: What To Do Next? Special thank you to our iOS Engineers Anastasiia and Vitalii Bogdan for contribution to this article.medium.com Have you tried to use Parse.com for your apps? I have. And I liked it! But there’re a couple of things to keep in mind before you blindly sinking into ‘codeless backend’. This is my story…

After the project is estimated and engineers start development, everything looks clear. What could possibly go wrong? Read about challenges and pitfalls during estimations. This is the second part of post series “How to Estimate mobile projects”. Read also Part 1 — A step by step guide where we described…

Read some advice on how to transform the project into achievable tasks and what to keep in mind during estimation. This is the first part of articles series How to Estimate mobile projects. Read also Part 2 — Why Estimation Fails and How to Prevent This to learn about challenges…