Mobile Application Security

Download or read book Mobile Application Security written by Himanshu Dwivedi and published by Tata McGraw-Hill Education. This book was released on 2010-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many popular banking institutions (including Wells Fargo) already offer applications with a mobile interface that exposes sensitive financial information to unauthorized users. As industries rush to "Get Mobile," many institutions are making terrible security compromises in the process. For example, at least one financial institution uses text messages to send bank account information which exposes the customers to security risks.This is the only book on the market that shows IT and Web professionals how to secure mobile devices and the new Web 2.0 applications that run on them. You will learn best practices for securing applications that are written for the most popular mobile platforms, such as Apple iPhone, Windows Mobile, and Google Android.