5 Ways To Make Your Mobile App More Secure

It must be said, making an app secure does take a whole lot of development time and effort. However, not following proper security protocols leaves both app and users vulnerable to malware attacks or privacy breaches. As developer, you need to prioritize security to establish trust with your app’s users. 

To ensure your user’s safety as well as your app’s credibility, here are five ways to secure your mobile app: 

1. Write secure code 

The majority of security incidents often originate deep in an application’s underlying software and pose risk for businesses and individuals alike. Ensuring secure coding practices therefore must be a top priority for you. 

It is always good practice to start with a goal of keeping your code as simple as you can. Stick to the proven secure programming practices. Furthermore, you must include secure code review in your strategy to identify security-related weaknesses in the code and make it more secure. 

2. Encrypt all data 

Encryption is an effective way to save data from being exploited. It ensures that data can only be accessed or decrypted by a user with the correct key and deters any malicious attempt by hackers to access sensitive data. In addition, you must incorporate a holistic data encryption strategy that safeguards both in transit data as well as stored digital data on computer system and the cloud. 

3. Use high level authentication 

You should design your app to only accept strong alphanumeric passwords and it would be better if you make it mandatory for users to change it periodically. Furthermore, you can bring an extra layer of protection to your app by employing multi-factor authentication. It requires users to respond to requests to verify their identity, for instance, like providing OTP sent to the mobile number from app for verification. In addition, you can include biometric authentication like fingerprint or retina scan to strengthen your app’s login security. 

4. Use third- party software with precaution 

It takes a lot of time and effort to build a new application from scratch. Consequently, most of the developers like to use third-party softwares like tools, libraries and platforms to avoid writing features from themselves. However, your efforts in building a secure app can be nullified by vulnerabilities that may already exist in these third-party softwares. Moreover, you can’t overlook the possibility of additional risks due to deliberate malicious code in any of them. 

Therefore, as a developer you need to identify any vulnerability that may be affecting third-party software and the level of risk they bring to your app.  

5. Test repeatedly 

Securing your app is a process that never ends. New threats emerge and you need to come up with new solutions to nullify them. Therefore, you should invest in penetration testing, threat modeling, and emulators to continuously test your apps for vulnerabilities. Afterwards, fix them with each update and issue patches when required. 

Creating a safe mobile app is tough, but the above-mentioned ways make your app more resilient against hackers and ensure security in every step of mobile app development to protect users as well as app from any malware attack or security breaches. 

If you want to build a secure mobile application or any more in-depth technical information, do visit us at: Hashbrown Systems App Development.