Security vigilance begins with development teams understanding the types of threats and attacks that are unique to the mobile platform.

These specific threats need to be thoroughly considered and addressed with appropriate countermeasures in application design, code, and testing.

To that end, this paper describes a range of mobile-specific threats and risks for developers to be aware of including:

• Challenges of the mobile platform
• Common mobile risks and attacks
• Mobile applications and data risks
• 3 ways to optimize your mobile app security program