Extending the mobile security framework

- [Narrator] It's easy to understand the reasons…why we might want our software vendors…to take care when developing operating systems…and system applications.…Given the regular appearance of yet another…public exposure of denial of service,…ransomware, data breach, and so on.…As developers, we're perhaps less used…to being quite so rigorous in our own coding.…Nevertheless, the kind of exploits…found in operating systems and system applications…can just as easily be found in our own code…if we're not careful.…The purpose of securing our apps…is to protect them against those…who would use them as carriers of malicious…and possibly viral code by injecting…unauthorized modifications,…steal intellectual property by extracting…and reusing code,…invade someone's privacy,…steal activation codes and credentials for financial gain,…and cheat in competitive applications.…

The Northwest University in Illinois has developed…the framework for designing and implementing…secure mobile apps.…These are apps which, through various techniques,…