Regular mobile application penetration testing is a fundamental part of meeting your organisation’s cybersecurity and compliance goals
Regular mobile application penetration testing ensures that weaknesses in your mobile applications are identified so they can be addressed, protecting against cyber-attack
Regular mobile application penetration testing provides assurance to stakeholders that your mobile applications are secure
Blackfoot’s mobile application penetration testing service makes finding and fixing security weaknesses in mobile applications simple, no matter how complex they might be.
Mobile application penetration testing is a crucial process in ensuring the functionality, usability and security of mobile applications across various platforms such as iOS and Android.
Through comprehensive testing, potential issues such as functionality bugs, crashes, compatibility problems, performance bottlenecks and security vulnerabilities can be identified and resolved.
Mobile application penetration testing encompasses various aspects such as user interface testing, functional testing, compatibility testing, performance testing and security testing.
With thorough mobile application penetration testing, organisations can deliver a seamless user experience and maintain the application’s reliability while safeguarding user data and mitigating the risk of security breaches or data leaks.
Blackfoot’s manual penetration testing, or exploit testing, builds on vulnerability assessment results to simulating real-world attack methods.
Unlike automated vulnerability scanning, our manual penetration testing is delivered by our highly skilled testers who actively seek to progress vulnerabilities through the cyber kill-chain. They will assess the security of your mobile application by employing a combination of tools, techniques and, most importantly, creativity. As a CREST-certified organisation, Blackfoot penetration tests follow an approved, structured methodology.
Our expert testers first establish a deep understanding of the mobile application, its operation and configuration, and the associated operator roles and access permissions.
Our testers will then seek to discover any potentially exploitable vulnerabilities in the application, before testing their exploitability. They’ll also validate whether successful exploitation exposes other areas or provides potential threat routes to other business systems.
Based on clearly defined test objectives, this involves exploring compromised systems to determine whether they host sensitive files or information, allow privilege escalation or permit access to password information which could be used to compromise other systems or internal applications.
Blackfoot reports its findings along with clear recommendations for prioritised remediation activities.
Q: What is mobile application penetration testing?
A: Mobile application penetration testing is a security assessment of applications designed for iOS or Android platforms. It examines the application’s code, data storage, network communications, authentication mechanisms and interaction with the underlying device to identify vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker. Mobile applications often handle sensitive user data and communicate with backend services, making thorough security testing essential.
Q: What does mobile application testing cover that standard web application testing does not?
A: Mobile application testing addresses platform-specific concerns that do not apply to web applications, including insecure data storage on the device, improper use of device permissions, insecure inter-app communication, issues with certificate pinning and TLS implementation, and binary analysis of the application code. OWASP’s Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (MASVS) provides the framework against which Blackfoot conducts mobile application assessments.
Q: Do you test both iOS and Android applications?
A: Yes. Blackfoot tests both iOS and Android mobile applications. The testing approach is tailored to each platform’s specific security model and common vulnerability classes. Where an application has both iOS and Android versions, we recommend testing both, as security implementations can differ between platforms even when the underlying functionality is the same.
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