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Mobile Application Penetration Testing

You're reading from  Mobile Application Penetration Testing

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2016
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781785883378
Pages 312 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Vijay Kumar Velu Vijay Kumar Velu
Profile icon Vijay Kumar Velu

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Mobile Application Penetration Testing
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. The Mobile Application Security Landscape 2. Snooping Around the Architecture 3. Building a Test Environment 4. Loading up – Mobile Pentesting Tools 5. Building Attack Paths – Threat Modeling an Application 6. Full Steam Ahead – Attacking Android Applications 7. Full Steam Ahead – Attacking iOS Applications 8. Securing Your Android and iOS Applications Index

The importance of architecture


Architectures are primarily concerned with structures and the interrelationships of the components that are used to build them.

Let's take an example; here we have two pictures, the Great Pyramid of Giza and Cologne Cathedral:

On the left is the Great Pyramid, which is 150 meters high and built using 7.5 million tons of rocks.

The other picture is Cologne Cathedral, which is 157 meters high and built using 160,000 tons of rocks.

Now the question that arises in our mind is why we are comparing these two. What is the difference? Are both of these built using different technologies?

No, both are built using rocks. The immensely colossal difference is the way the architects have utilized architecture in the Pyramid and Cathedral. This has allowed the Cathedral to have more space, more height, and a lot more light by using virtually 50% fewer rocks. This is the motivation behind architecture. An application that is built with a lack of perceivable architecture will end...

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