Price: $1895
Duration: 3 Days
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Technology: MobileDev
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Microsoft CPE:
Android™ app development is a valuable skill set for a programmer today. An important part of that skill set is the ability to create apps that protect you, your users, and your users' organizations from attack. In this course, you will learn why it is critical to build security into your Android apps, how to improve your programming processes to promote security, and how to provide countermeasures for the numerous threats to which an Android app and its users are exposed.
In this course, you will harden native Android mobile apps against attack, and ensure secure network communications and backend web services. You will:
This course is intended for a programmer or web developer who is experienced with mobile app development in Android and wants to learn how to develop secure apps that are hardened against attack to levels that are appropriate for the risk model of the app. The student has experience developing Android apps and is familiar with the Android SDK, development tools, and processes.
Lesson 1: The Rationale for Android App Security
To ensure your success, you should have experience developing Android apps in Java using Eclipse and the Android SDK. To meet this prerequisite, you can take the Logical Operations course Developing Android™ Mobile Apps for Business. A general understanding of information technology security is also helpful, but not required. Logical Operations offers various courses on information technology security, including CompTIA® Security+.