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Mobile App Authentication (4)

In this article we are going to look at the key use cases you should consider around protecting access to your users’ accounts and what you should think about when building your gold standard security to protect them. Read Full Story

In 2009, the app economy officially kicked off with the Apple trademarked refrain “There’s an app for that.” A decade later, the mobile app is the center of gravity of the digital economy, transforming how we shop, bank, read, commute, socialize, work, travel, manage our health, and much more. Today, it seems, if there’s no app for that, then it’s probably not a fully digital experience. Read Full Story

The Elixir programming language was created by Jose Valim in 2012 as a research project at Plataformatec, the company where he worked at the time. You can watch Elixir: The Documentary where he tells in the first person more about the motivations and reasons behind writing it. Read Full Story

Approov is making rapid progress in the automotive sector, particularly in mobility businesses. The specific challenges in this market were the subject of an interview we did with EETimes. Read Full Story

Anyone looking for a snapshot of how the COVID-19 pandemic is fuelling an e-commerce boom need look no further than Shopify’s recently released Q2 2020 financials. The platform witnessed a 71% jump in new store creation compared to the previous quarter this year. Every leading performance indicator was up in high double, or even triple, digits compared to Q2 2019 including sales (97%), gross merchandise volume (119%), merchant solutions revenue (148%), and adjusted per-share earnings (950%). Read Full Story

Xamarin is a very popular framework for building cross platform apps using C#. Microsoft offers full support for inclusion of native iOS or Android libraries and an excellent IDE, Visual Studio, making Xamarin an ideal cross platform mobile app development solution. You shouldn’t need to compromise on security just because you are using a higher level framework rather than developing native apps. Our Xamarin Quickstart guide allows you to easily get up and running with Approov, whether you are building a new app or adapting an existing one to have an improved security posture. Read Full Story

In 2016, mHealth apps were the third fastest-growing category of apps behind games and utilities. In 2017, the number of healthcare applications available for smartphone users doubled from that of 2015 to 325,000, from 84,000 different publishers, with an estimated 3.7 billion downloads that year. By 2018, nearly a third of all patients were using their mobile phone for health-related searches and for booking appointments, an overwhelming 99% of consumers believed that mHealth apps improved their quality of life and 70% of millennials were interested in a mobile app that would help them actively manage their well-being. By 2027, mHealth app usage among patients is projected to grow at a 10-year CAGR of 40%. Read Full Story

Approov API Threat Protection protects the APIs which service your mobile apps from abuse and fraud by unauthorized bad actors. We talk to customers about how Approov authenticates genuine mobile app instances without requiring hidden secrets or design decision making in the app. We discuss the simplicity of integrating it into your app and deploying it in production. We even talk about the scalability, redundancy and resilience built into the Approov cloud service. However, what we don’t talk enough about is our metrics, a required feature to monitor and manage your service. With this article, we will give our metrics the description they deserve. Read Full Story

Photo by Ann H from Pexels When we talk about Approov API Threat Protection, we usually talk about it in the context of ensuring that only genuine instances of your own mobile app can use your API to access your backend servers. However, there is another use case which occurs commonly in our customer base - ensuring that only your SDK can use your API where you distribute your SDK to your customers. Here also, Approov is highly effective. Read Full Story

Photo by Evgeni Tcherkasski on Unsplash Our aim is to make the process of integrating Approov into your mobile app as simple as possible. Our Quickstart guides show you how to add Approov into your app, tailored to whatever framework or programming style you’ve already adopted. In this blog we are going to cover the options we have for iOS Native app development. Read Full Story