Mobile App Security: Best Practices You Can’t Ignore, Man!

Sophie Zoria
The Research Nest
Published in
4 min readJan 29, 2020

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The modern world requires reliable and fast access to information from mobile devices from anywhere in the world. Mobile applications have long become an integral part of business and private lives.

Possible Threats of Mobile Apps

Hackers are continually finding new ways to circumvent the protection of various apps, and company experts are continually finding ways to improve this protection — it’s a vicious circle. Banking, e-commerce, social networks — all these industries are especially vulnerable when it comes to cybersecurity. Companies spend millions of dollars to strengthen their enterprise app development security because losses from a small gap can be disproportionately higher.

Mobile application developers often do not pay enough attention to application security issues and do not follow the rules for safe development. They do not implement security code at the architecture development processes. Many custom mobile app development companies lose sight of vulnerabilities that allow either to intercept data transmitted between the client and the server or directly exploit vulnerabilities of the device and the mobile application itself.

Using such applications poses a particular danger to users related to the theft of their personal data. The…

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Sophie Zoria
The Research Nest

Sophie Zoria is a passioned author covered tech trends, mobile apps, and design.