Mobile apps have become a primary interface for essential services, such as banking, payments, and healthcare. Unlike web applications, a significant portion of the logic and intellectual property in a mobile app resides directly on the user’s device, an environment the developer does not control. This makes mobile apps particularly vulnerable to reverse engineering, runtime manipulation, and fraud.
As more critical functions transition to mobile, the need to fortify apps against advanced attackers continues to increase. Guardsquare develops tools to protect and test mobile applications against both static and dynamic threats. Its platform offers features including multi-layered code obfuscation, runtime application self-protection, mobile-specific security testing, threat monitoring, and API attestation.
Ryan Lloyd is the Chief Product Officer at Guardsquare. In this episode, he joins Gregor Vand to discuss why mobile security is different from desktop and web security, the evolution of reverse engineering tools, the role of compiler-based obfuscation and runtime protections, common mobile app vulnerabilities, and how long language models are transforming the attacker landscape.
Full Disclosure: This episode is sponsored by Guardsquare.
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