Opis
If you build iOS apps, you also manage risk, from insecure data storage to reverse engineering and runtime tampering. This book treats security as part of the development workflow, not an afterthought, and focuses on practical techniques you can apply without needing deep cryptography or penetration testing expertise.You will start by defining what needs protection: sensitive data, how it is categorized, how long it should be retained, and how privacy expectations and legal requirements shape design decisions. From there, you will study common attack techniques such as network interception, injection, configuration mistakes, URL scheme abuse, code tampering, repackaging, and runtime manipulation.
The book then moves into defenses: platform and language safety, code signing and entitlements, secure error and execution handling, data validation, transport security with TLS pinning, and runtime protections against debuggers and emulation. On the data side, you will use Keychain, file protection classes, and Secure Enclave features to protect secrets and keys, and you will evaluate clipboard and backup related risks. Finally, you will build a repeatable security program across the app lifecycle, from static and dynamic analysis to incident response planning and bug bounty triage, so you can ship trustworthy iOS apps at scale.