Hybrid Mobile Apps: From Security Challenges to Secure Development - Seguridad Mania.com - España y América Latina

Cross-platform frameworks, such as Apache Cordova, Adobe PhoneGap, or SAP Kapsel are becoming increasingly popular. They promote the development of hybrid apps that combine native, i.e., system specific, code and system independent code, e.g., HTML5/JavaScript. Combining native with platform independent code opens Pandora's box: all the security risks for native development are multiplied with the security risk of web applications. In this talk, we will give a short introduction into hybrid app development, present specific attacks and discuss how Android developers are using Apache Cordova. In the second half of the talk, we will focus on the secure development of hybrid apps: both with hands-on guidelines for defensive programming as well as recommendations for hybrid app specific security testing strategies. Speaker bio: Dr. Achim D. Brucker (https://www.brucker.ch) leads the Software Assurance & Security Research Team (https://logicalhacking.com) at the University of Sheffield, UK. Until December 2015, he was a Security Testing Strategist in the Global Security Team of SAP SE, where, among others, he defined the risk-based security testing strategy of SAP. He is a frequent speaker at security conferences.