Webcast: Mobile Application Security

Speakers:

Chenxi Wang Vice President & Principal Analyst for Security & Risk  Forrester Research, Inc.

Dan Kuykendall Co-CEO & CTO   NT OBJECTives

Watch this webcast as our guest speaker, Chenxi Wang, Ph.D., Vice President and Principal Analyst at Forrester Research and Dan Kuykendall, co-CEO and CTO of NT OBJECTives reveal why and how vulnerabilities in mobile applications, especially custom applications using new rich programming formats, are a serious emerging and overlooked threat. They demonstrate how cybercriminals can go straight to the backend servers where critical data is housed.  The presentation includes:

New research and statistics:

• Increase in custom mobile applications – In an informal study of more than 500 clients, Forrester found that nearly 50 percent have built custom mobile applications or are about to build them demonstrating how active enterprise mobility is today.
• Increased # of API exploits – Increasing number of exploitations of application-programming interfaces (APIs) associated with custom applications.
• Access to back-end servers – It is within these APIs that attackers are able to reach backend servers, where critical and sensitive information is housed.

Includes practical guidance on how:

• How mobile applications are exploited
• How to properly test mobile applications (Including JSON, SOAP and REST)
• Common mobile application attack vectors
• Common mobile hacking tools