Android applications have security features as they develop and store your sensitive information. They must do the needful to secure customer loyalty and significantly reduce the impact and frequency of application security issues.
The system is designed typically so that you can build file permissions to avoid difficult decisions about security and also can build your apps.
Here are some of the features that help you to build secure apps –
An application framework for implementations of common security.
An Android application Sandbox, that isolates your code execution and app data from other apps.
An encrypted file system to protect data when lost or stolen devices.
Technologies like NX, OpenBSD do malloc, ASLR, OpenBSD call to mitigate risks that are associated with common memory management errors.
Application-defined permissions to control data application as per app basis. A user granted permissions to restrict access to user data and system features.
At Nullcon 2016, a training on Android Security was conducted to see how bugs in Android applications exploited and how the information was used by these Android developers in order to protect their apps.
Training was conducted by a regional director Anant Shrivastava. In the training, they were given an explanation so that the basic concepts were well understood by the developers which took the participants actually try out something for themselves.
Hands-on training with the making of concepts easier to remember.
The training used a system called as Genymotion which refers to emulate an Android device while using Anant’s Android Tamer to carry out attacks.
You might be worrying what is Android Tamer?
It is a Linux-based operating system designed specifically for Android security professionals based on Ubuntu.
This operating system contains a set of tools that allow for penetration testing, malware analysis, Android development and Android forensics.
The operating system is free and can be downloaded from the following website – https://androidtamer.com/