Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Ensure Your Mobile Applications Stand Tall Against Cyber Threats
Understanding Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Mobile application penetration testing is an analytical approach, a rigorous examination of the security layers within a mobile environment to pinpoint vulnerabilities, bottlenecks, and potential attack routes in the source code before an actual attack can occur. Penetration testing is a potent tool to bolster cybersecurity across mobile apps.
Significance of Mobile Application Penetration Testing
With an increasing reliance on mobile applications, the convenience and productivity they bring have made them an integral part of our daily operations. Nonetheless, the very convenience these apps offer is associated with security risks. Given the massive amounts of data processed through mobile applications, they have become primary targets for cyber threats. Mobile app pen testing is vital to maintain security across these app platforms. As new vulnerabilities are unearthed every day, it is crucial for businesses to stay ahead of the curve to ensure their mobile apps are shielded from contemporary cyber threats and minimize the risk of malware, spyware, or other security breaches.
Why Choose Cyberflame for Mobile App Penetration Testing?
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Cyberflame's mobile application security testing amalgamates results from top-of-the-line scanning tools and manual testing to detect and validate vulnerabilities, configuration mistakes, and flaws in business logic. Extensive manual mobile application testing allows us to identify what automated scanners might overlook. Mobile applications, due to their inherent design for internet accessibility, are particularly prone to external attacks. While automated scanners can detect known vulnerabilities, they often fall short in reporting actual business risks. Our mobile application security testing helps you diminish your data breach risk, enhance productivity, safeguard your brand, and optimize your mobile application's ROI.
Regardless of your level of business integration with mobile applications, Cyberflame can help discover and exploit vulnerabilities that could lead to a data breach. Through Cyberflame's mobile application penetration testing, we manually test Android and/or iOS operating systems to identify critical security issues that might lead to personal and financial data theft.
Cyberflame's Approach to Mobile Application Security Testing
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Our team of certified penetration testers at Cyberflame has extensive experience in diverse mobile application testing environments, including Android, iOS, Windows, and other prevalent operating systems and mobile apps. We understand that every organization's cybersecurity needs and objectives for mobile app pen testing may vary. We invest time in understanding your application's purpose and user interactions, which provides us a clearer pathway that a potential attacker might follow. Our penetration testers take into account the business logic embedded by application developers to deliver a more thoughtful, comprehensive, and valuable outcome.
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Our mobile app pen tests are conducted using globally accepted and industry-standard frameworks. To guarantee a robust and thorough penetration test, we leverage industry-standard frameworks as the groundwork for our penetration tests. Our mobile app security testing is built upon the foundation of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP).
Cyberflame's exhaustive testing encompasses the classes of vulnerabilities in the OWASP Mobile Top 10 Risks, including:
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Improper Platform Usage
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Insecure Data Storage
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Insecure Communication
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Insecure Authentication
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Insufficient Cryptography
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Insecure Authorization
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Client Code Quality
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Code Tampering
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Reverse Engineering
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Extraneous Functionality
OWASP is a global framework that allows for effective penetration testing, aligned with best practices while ensuring a comprehensive evaluation. The following phases are part of our all-encompassing mobile web application penetration testing approach.
Our Mobile App Security Methodology
Discover more about Cyberflame's Mobile Application Penetration Testing Methodology.
Deliverables
Every mobile app pen test by Cyberflame aims to reduce risk by identifying vulnerabilities within mobile application environments that insider threats or cyber criminals could exploit. Testing your application security will eventually enhance application security.
Our discoveries are documented in lucid, easy-to-understand reports intended to guide our recommendations for prioritizing remediation efforts, ranked by severity. Clients receive a clear and actionable report, replete with evidence for the project stakeholders. At Cyberflame, we regard this phase as the most crucial and take immense care to ensure we've communicated the value of our service and findings thoroughly. The report will provide an analysis of the current status of the assessed mobile security controls.