The mobile app security tools

DotNek Software Development 3 minute(s) read

Last updated: Jul 28, 2020

To ensure the mobile app security, many software developers stepped in the battleground to provide us with the best tools to test our mobile app security. The market has so many software available for free, and some paid that we can get to monitor the security of our mobile applications. A mobile phone is a device in which we like to keep all of our personal and sensitive data because we can vary a mobile phone with us all the time. After all, it is a handy device. We are here to share with you some tools that will help you test the mobile app security so that any installed app in your phone can never break-in to your data and damage it.

1. Quick Android Review Kit (QARK):

We all know about QARK developed by LinkedIn. It stands for Quick Android Review Kit. It is merely a code analysis tool that helps you get information about the application security and display the issues(if any) with the app. Quick Android Review Kit (QARK) is designed for the android platform to analyze the source code of the app and APK files. QARK also provides Android Debug Bridge (ADB) to help you in the authorization of potential susceptibilities.

2. Devknox:

In addition to the list of mobile security testing tools, Devknox stands tall because if its detecting and resolving security issues features. They write the code in Android studio, so Devknox is one of its kinds. Devknox not only detects mobile security issues but also suggests the developers fix those issues instantly. It is also called the autocorrect for security issues. Isn’t it amazing! It takes care of the app security requirement and keeps those requirements up-to-date according to the global security standards.

3. Android Debug Bridge:

This command-line tool communicates directly with connected android devices to monitor the security of mobile applications Android Debug Bridge also serves as the client-server tool that assesses multiple connected Android devices. It consists of three components, including “Client,” “daemon,” and “Server.” All of these components have their functionalities in ensuring mobile app security.

4. Codified Security:

This app security tool was developed in London in 2015. It not only figures out the issues with the application in the mobile phone but also fixes the susceptibilities regarding the security of the application making it secure and safe to use. It has the programmatic approach for testing app security to make sure that the results are reliable.

5. Mitmproxy:

This amazing freeware security testing tool helps you identify and fix the security issues of your mobile application. It allows the user to interfere, interrogate, make changes, and reply to the traffic flow exchange between the app frontend and backend activities. The name of this security tool is inspired by a kind of cyber attack named MITM, which means “Man in the Middle attack.”