Mobile apps are increasingly important but are we aware of cyber risks?

The importance of mobile apps to business success has tripled over the past two years, and Osterman Research research reveals that enterprise app development and deployment are among an organization’s highest priorities.

Unfortunately, the runtime security of the app, its API secrets and the user data collected do not receive similarly high prioritization and budget.

On average, mobile apps depend on more than 30 third-party APIs, and half of the mobile developers surveyed are still storing API keys in the app code, which exposes app secrets to increasingly clever threat actors.

Read more about the research at Help Net Security