Learning iOS Penetration Testing

Foreword – Why Mobile Security Matters

Information security programs frequently begin with the best of intentions: to coolly analyze risks and then to design, prescribe, and deploy security solutions for developers. The reality is that information security, writ large, usually devolves into a taillight-chasing exercise. These taillights are the vapor trails left by the latest breach or big name vulnerability.

On the Internet, information security has been playing a decades-long game of catch up. Developers innovate and the security teams rush behind to clean up as many vulnerabilities as they can find and solve. Yet, this fact has not clobbered businesses, many of whom are still able to carve out very profitable niches despite the threats on the ...