What is Mobile Application Penetration Testing?

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Mobile application penetration testing helps you find and fix exploitable vulnerabilities in iOS and Android applications and the APIs they rely on.

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To help prevent data exposure, privilege escalation, or unauthorised access, SECFORCE tests your mobile app and the full ecosystem around it (including back-end APIs) without putting production systems or data at risk.

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Insecure mobile apps cause organisations an average of 9 mobile application security incidents per year. Our mobile application penetration testing service is designed to help your team address vulnerabilities early in the development lifecycle.

Outcomes of Mobile Application Testing

Mobile App Risk Assurance

Mobile App Risk Assurance

Launch or grow with confidence. Test whether jailbreak/root detection, certificate pinning, obfuscation, and anti-tampering controls are properly implemented and resistant to bypass.

Regulatory Compliance

Regulatory Compliance

Provide evidence of testing to regulators and auditors while helping development teams improve secure coding practices against standards like OWASP MASVS.

Security Validation In Fast Tempo Environments

Security Validation In Fast Tempo Environments

Deploy more apps and identify weaknesses that could expose personal information, credentials, or business data through insecure storage or transmission.

Secure Interaction with Back-End Systems

Secure Interaction with Back-End Systems

Verify that attackers cannot exploit the app to access other users’ information or perform unauthorised actions on your back-end systems./p>

Enhanced System Architecture

Enhanced System Architecture

Plan safe software architecture decisions, including secure data storage, access control enforcement, and authentication mechanisms.

Who can benefit from Penetration Testing?

Any organisation deploying mobile applications to internal or external end users will benefit from mobile application penetration testing.

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Testing a mobile application gives you confidence to deploy and grow without scaling up breach risk.

Mobile Application Testing scenarios

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Validating that authentication and 2FA controls are fully enforced server-side and cannot be bypassed through client manipulation.

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Assessing trust boundaries between mobile clients and back-end APIs to uncover logic flaws and excessive client-side reliance.

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Identifying insecure local data storage that exposes PII or payment data during device loss, compromise, or malicious app coexistence.

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Testing mobile applications for hardcoded secrets, exposed API keys, and unsafe credential handling.

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Evaluating session management, rate limiting, and back-end access controls tied to mobile workflows.

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Verifying remediation effectiveness through targeted retesting to support regulatory and compliance requirements.

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The SECFORCE way

Expert SECFORCE testers test mobile applications with a human-driven approach to uncover issues that attackers exploit, but automated tools miss.

We test across iOS and Android platforms with specialists skilled in each environment’s unique challenges. Our team goes through and beyond the OWASP Mobile and API Security Top 10 and can simulate real-world scenarios, including device theft, hostile inter-app interactions, and attacks targeting back-end APIs.

Whatever the mobile application testing scenario, we don’t leave you wondering “what’s next”.

All SECFORCE tests end with detailed reporting and practical remediation guidance, ensuring findings are understood by technical and business stakeholders.

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