Mobile Application Security: What Every Organization Needs to Know

About this episode

This episode discusses the modern mobile app threat landscape and the importance of mobile security for organizations.

Mobile apps are now deeply connected platforms for identities, payments, sessions, APIs, healthcare, retail, gaming, and cloud services. In this special episode, Tom Eston talks with Joel Destefano, Senior Product Manager at Guardsquare, about the modern mobile app threat landscape and why organizations can’t treat mobile security as an afterthought. Topics include runtime manipulation, API abuse, account takeover, fake apps, overlays, malware-assisted fraud, reverse engineering, iOS vs Android risk, AI-assisted attacks, and why backend-only security is not enough. Special thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode! Guardsquare is the leader in mobile application security, with multi-layered protection for your Android and iOS apps. Learn more at Guardsquare.com. ** Links mentioned on the show ** Find out more about Guardsquare https://www.guardsquare.com/ Guardsquare’s Blog and Research Center https://www.guardsquare.com/blog https://www.guardsquare.com/mobile-app-security-research-center/welcome OWASP Mobile Application Security https://owasp.org/www-project-mobile-app-security/ OWASP MASVS https://mas.owasp.org/MASVS/ ** Watch this episode on YouTube ** ** Become a…

People in this episode

Host: Tom Eston

Guest: Joel Destefano

Topics covered

• mobile application security
• threat landscape
• runtime manipulation
• API abuse
• account takeover
• malware-assisted fraud
• AI-assisted attacks

Keywords

• mobile apps
• security
• threats
• malware
• API
• fraud
• reverse engineering
• iOS
• Android

Sponsors

Guardsquare

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: OWASP

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