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In-app protection refers to the security features built into mobile apps. These features help protect the app and the data it contains from unauthorized access, theft, or tampering. Below, we discuss in-app protection and why it’s crucial for mobile app development. Read Full Story

As mobile devices become increasingly popular in the workplace, so do attacks targeting mobile apps. In fact, according to a recent 2021 cybersecurity study by Checkpoint, 46% of organizations had at least one employee download a malicious mobile application threatening networks and data. What is mobile app shielding and how can it help protect businesses that rely on mobile apps? Read Full Story

Our Approov GRPC Quickstarts for Android/Java, iOS/Swift mobile clients and NodeJS server allow you to get up and running with Approov easily, whether you are building a new app or adapting an existing one to have an improved security posture. Read Full Story

We sponsored a major report “Playing with FHIR” by Alissa Knight, released in October 2021 (download it here) which investigated the security of mobile healthcare apps and APIs which use the FHIR standard. This report has certainly sparked a lot of debate about the security of healthcare apps and a broader discussion about who is accountable for keeping patient data safe as the ecosystem expands. 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

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

Contact tracing has been in the news a lot in recent months. No wonder. It’s widely seen as playing a key role in opening our societies up again after lockdown, and an important part of the strategy for countries that have already done well in suppressing transmissions. As technologists we, and many like us, immediately jumped onto the possibilities of Bluetooth. A ready made technology available on just about every smartphone designed for ubiquitous short range radio communication. Perfect. We just need to throw an app together and we can map all the contacts people are having day to day, so if anyone gets sick we can automatically alert anyone else that might have been exposed. Cool. Should be ready in a couple of weeks, right? 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

ShipFast and ShipRaider made a fresh appearance at the RSA Conference in late February 2020 in San Francisco. This time the focus was on API security for React Native Apps: Read Full Story

When the NHSX contact tracing app was made available in the app stores last Thursday we decided to take a quick look at its operation and how the code has been put together. We used the Android version and the excellent MobSF tools to do our reversing analysis. On Friday the full source code of the app was also published on github. Read Full Story