Essay on mobile security

Technological advancement had provided with wide ranges of elements which had contributed in the day to day lives of the people. Mobile phones have become the major sources of communication and the sources of exchange over any of the information. Thus, the security of the mobile phones had taken a priority concerns. Mobile application security is been considered as the protection of data and information for the application of mobile individually. The present report would be identifying the relevant aspects of mobile apps security briefly. It would help in elaborating a case study and its weaknesses over the area. In addition to this, the report would also assist in identifying the measures to be taken to mitigate the threats over the issues by making use of security policies and tools effectively.

The present case study is been concerned with the mobile application security assessment for a private bank. As per the case study, a private financial company which serves in three major business sectors such as retail banking services, wholesale banking services and the treasury. It has been found that the organization has been facing severe concerns of customers over their secured transactions and thus required implementing a mobile banking solution. With the intention to develop a mobile application for the customers and facilitates them with the easy transaction was a complex task as it raised a security concern among them. The major fear among the management of the bank was to enable the clients to transact securely with the help of their mobile applications. Mobile application security is been termed as the amount of protection which the mobile device apps acquires from sever malware and the offensive acts by other immoral people. It is been also concerned with the technology and the practices which reduces the uncertainties of the exploitation to the mobile phones and their applications. The mobiles have large number of elements which could be vulnerable to the security reasons. The case study is been majorly focused to find out the issues with the security and the measures which could be adopted to mitigate from the same. The organization has thus initiated to adopt the security policies and come up with the best resolutions.