Secure Development for Mobile Apps: How to Design and Code Secure Mobile Applications with PHP and JavaScript - Softcover

Glaser, J. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482209039 ISBN 13: 9781482209037

Publisher: Auerbach Publications, 2014

Synopsis

The world is becoming increasingly mobile. Smartphones and tablets have become more powerful and popular, with many of these devices now containing confidential business, financial, and personal information. This has led to a greater focus on mobile software security. Establishing mobile software security should be of primary concern to every mobile application developer. This book explains how you can create mobile social applications that incorporate security throughout the development process.

Although there are many books that address security issues, most do not explain how to incorporate security into the building process. Secure Development for Mobile Apps does exactly that. Its step-by-step guidance shows you how to integrate security measures into social apps running on mobile platforms. You’ll learn how to design and code apps with security as part of the process and not an afterthought. The author outlines best practices to help you build better, more secure software.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to techniques for secure development practices. It covers PHP security practices and tools, project layout templates, PHP and PDO, PHP encryption, and guidelines for secure session management, form validation, and file uploading. The book also demonstrates how to develop secure mobile apps using the APIs for Google Maps, YouTube, jQuery Mobile, Twitter, and Facebook. While this is not a beginner’s guide to programming, you should have no problem following along if you’ve spent some time developing with PHP and MySQL.

About this title

About the Author

J.D. Glaser is a software developer who loves building things. Circumstance led to a career in developing Windows security software and speaking all over the world on Windows forensic matters. He has trained government agencies in forensic issues and the U.S. Department of Justice has used his tools to capture and convict cybercriminals. He now specializes in building large social games in PHP and keeping players secure in cyber space.

From the Back Cover

Although there are many books that address security issues, most do not explain how to incorporate security into the building process. This book does exactly that. It supplies step-by-step guidance on how to integrate security measures into social applications running on mobile platforms. It explains how to design and code applications with security as part of the process and not an afterthought. The author outlines best practices to help readers build better, more secure software.

Edition details

• Publisher: Auerbach Publications
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1482209039
• ISBN 13: 9781482209037
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 472