Mobile applications have become central to how businesses operate and how consumers manage everything from finances to healthcare. Yet the security of those applications is rarely given the same attention as the products themselves.
Research consistently shows that a significant portion of mobile app users assume their applications are secure by default, particularly in sensitive categories like health and finance. That assumption is dangerous. Many mobile applications ship with security flaws that expose user data, backend systems, and organizational infrastructure to exploitation.
The challenge is that securing mobile applications requires a fundamentally different approach than securing web applications. The attack surface spans client-side code, device storage, inter-app communication, backend APIs, and platform-specific behaviors across both iOS and Android. Without specialized testing that accounts for this complexity, critical vulnerabilities go undetected.
Redfox Cybersecurity delivers thorough, manual mobile application penetration testing that uncovers vulnerabilities automated scanners miss, so your organization can ship secure applications and protect the users who depend on them.
Mobile application penetration testing is a structured security assessment that evaluates both the client-side and backend server functionality of your mobile application to identify exploitable vulnerabilities and deliver actionable remediation guidance.
Unlike automated scanning tools, mobile application penetration testing replicates the techniques a real-world attacker would use to compromise your application, including reverse engineering, runtime manipulation, insecure data storage analysis, and backend API abuse. The goal is to reduce organizational risk, strengthen your application's security posture, and ensure vulnerabilities are discovered and remediated before your app reaches end users.
At a minimum, every mobile application penetration test covers the OWASP Mobile Top 10 Security Risks:
Our process is manual, rigorous, and adapted to the specific platform, architecture, and business context of your mobile application.
We define the scope of the engagement, identify the platforms and application versions to be tested, review available documentation, and establish the full attack surface including client-side functionality and backend API endpoints.
We analyze the application binary and source code where available to identify hardcoded secrets, insecure configurations, weak cryptographic implementations, and vulnerabilities embedded in the client-side code.
We test the application in a running state to assess runtime behavior, intercept and manipulate network traffic, analyze data storage practices, and identify vulnerabilities that only manifest during active use.
We probe all authentication mechanisms for weaknesses, test for broken authorization controls, attempt session hijacking, and assess the security of token handling and credential storage on the device.
We assess the security of all backend APIs the application communicates with, testing for the same vulnerabilities covered in a dedicated API penetration test including broken object-level authorization, injection, and excessive data exposure.
We examine the application's intended workflows to identify logic flaws that could be abused to bypass controls, access restricted functionality, or manipulate data in ways the application was not designed to permit.
You receive a clear, actionable report with an executive summary, technical findings, proof-of-concept evidence, and step-by-step remediation recommendations written for both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
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Redfox Cyber Security Inc.
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Delaware 19901,
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