By Luke Fitzpatrick

API security isn’t just a backend concern anymore, it’s a frontline responsibility for every mobile developer.

According to Salt Security’s research, 99% of organizations experienced API security incidents in the past year. Yet less than 8% have what experts consider “advanced” security programs. That’s not just a gap; It’s a canyon.

 

By Robert Lemos

An analysis of more than a half-million mobile apps find encryption problems, privacy issues, and known vulnerabilities in third-party code. What can users and developers do?

An analysis of more than half a million mobile applications found that nearly one in five had hardcoded encryption keys, nearly one in six used software components with known vulnerabilities, and nearly two-thirds used broken or weak encryption.