Your mobile app may look great, run smoothly, and have thousands of downloads. But underneath that polished interface, attackers may be looking for one thing: a way in.
And unfortunately, "we'll worry about security later" is not a security strategy.
In Mobile App Security Engineering, Drevar Solis takes you inside the world of mobile application security and shows you how to think like a security engineer before attackers do. With a practical, approachable, and occasionally humorous style, this book explores how to protect mobile applications from reverse engineering, data theft, tampering, credential attacks, API abuse, and other real-world threats.
Whether you are a mobile developer, security engineer, software architect, penetration tester, DevSecOps professional, or technology leader, this book provides a structured foundation for building more resilient mobile applications.
You'll explore:
- The modern mobile application threat landscape and how attackers identify weaknesses
- Mobile app architecture and the most important attack surfaces to secure
- Secure coding practices, input validation, authentication, authorization, and dependency management
- Strong authentication, OAuth, OpenID Connect, tokens, sessions, and account takeover prevention
- Encryption, secure local storage, cryptographic keys, and protection against data leakage
- Mobile API security, abuse prevention, rate limiting, and secure client-server communication
- Reverse engineering, static analysis, dynamic analysis, application tampering, and repackaging
- Code obfuscation, anti-tampering techniques, runtime application protection, and attack detection
- Root and jailbreak detection, debugger detection, emulator awareness, hooking, and code injection defenses
- Android and iOS security architectures, permissions, application communication, and platform security
- Mobile application security testing, vulnerability assessment, penetration testing, and threat modeling
- Security monitoring, incident response, vulnerability disclosure, CI/CD security, and continuous protection
Security doesn't have to be a mysterious black box filled with acronyms, panic, and coffee consumed at questionable hours.The goal of this book is to help you build a security-first mindset and understand how individual security decisions fit together to protect an entire mobile application ecosystem.Because attackers don't need your application to be perfect. They only need to find one weak point.Your job is to make finding that weak point considerably harder.If you want to understand mobile application security from architecture and secure development through reverse engineering defenses, runtime protection, API security, and continuous security operations, Mobile App Security Engineering gives you a practical roadmap for the journey.
Build smarter. Test harder. Protect what matters.And remember: the best time to discover your application's security weakness is before someone else does.