Major Pain Points of Business Application Security

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As the world increasingly relies on smartphones and mobile applications for various aspects of daily lives, ensuring the security of these apps becomes paramount. The increasing security and data threats day by day present unique challenges and vulnerabilities that developers, security experts, and users must address. As apps ask for multiple permissions to access client or user data, the data needs to be secured.
Companies need to keep in check that there should not be security bugs in their applications that might let attackers get their critical data, which they can sell or make publicly available. If any kind of hideous activity happens with a company’s application, then their reputation and trust of their customers will diminish, and they might run out of business. Hence, companies need to make sure that their priority is security.
In this blog post, we will learn about the major challenges of business application security and shed light on the pain points that persist within the application development industry. By understanding these challenges, we can collectively work towards building more secure and resilient business apps.

Table of contents

  • Pain points of Application Security
    1. Increasing Security and Regulatory Requirements
    2. Lack of Dev-Sec-Ops
    3. Failed security compliance audits
    4. Increasing volume and complexity of security threats
    5. Scarcity of security talent
    6. Developers may juggle priorities
  • Application Security is a Continuous Process

Pain points of Application Security

The following are the major pain points of business application security:

1. Increasing Security and Regulatory Requirements

The increasing complexity of the world has led to a complex structure of code, which is leading to an n-number of ways to enter a system. Due to this, the guidelines & regulations for the security of mobile applications are increasing day by day. The companies owning an Android or iOS application need to pay attention to the security of the application as per government norms and other security norms. It is considered that after following these guidelines, the application will be safeguarded from the perspective of the security guidelines, and companies can also add their own layer of security to their business applications.

2. Lack of Dev-Sec-Ops

In many mobile app development companies, Dev-Sec-Ops (Development, Security, and Operations), which means integrating security initiatives at every stage of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) is missing. Developers might not be interested at all in building up the wall of defense for business applications, and they might be doing it because of the needs of their company. This leads to the development of less secure apps.

Companies must understand the importance of Dev-Sec-Ops and train their development teams to fortify the security of business applications to the best of their capabilities. This can also help developers to proactively detect security vulnerabilities and stop them from harming business applications.

3. Failed security compliance audits

Security compliance guidelines are one of the most important guidelines for business application security. They are made with the mindset of securing the application from existing bugs and issues. Ignoring these guidelines might result in a lot of degradation in the trust of the business application, fines may be imposed on the company, and the reputation of the application & company might degrade. Security Compliance Audits serve as the reliability measure for users to determine whether a business application is trustworthy.

If your business application fails a compliance audit, it can hardly survive in the market. This is also a contributing factor to the cost that the application’s company has to bear while getting the solution, to check internally what the issue is. If the developer is not well equipped with expertise over the security part of the development, then it might be difficult to make the required changes in the code, and the company might consider getting a third-party audit.

4. Increasing volume and complexity of security threats

The increasing complexity and volume of security threats is one of the most scary factors that contributes to the major pain points of business application security. Attackers are coming up with new & more complex security bugs and exploiting new security vulnerabilities in business applications to scrape out highly sensitive data. To be safe from the ever-increasing security threats, companies need to keep updating the security measures that will safeguard their business applications and make it easy for people to trust their applications.

5. Scarcity of security talent

In the modern digital age, security talent is scarce. There are less number of skilled security engineers & researchers to solve the increasing security issues. Most developers aren’t equipped enough with application security concepts. This is a huge disadvantage for the mobile app industry.
Security is more of a practical thing, and as more people get exposure to security threats and find ways to prevent them, the number of talented people in the field of security will increase. Eventually, it will help more companies secure their business applications.

Companies can also hire third-party security services companies to take care of their application security while they gradually build their in-house security team.

6. Developers may juggle priorities

An app developer may overlook security aspects because he or she is not specialized in the security field. In most cases, the project leads are more inclined towards application development and give less priority to security of the applications, which also puts the developer in a difficult position. Development and security go hand in hand, but developers might juggle priorities because of the chain of command or lack of expertise on the topic of security.

Companies are expected to develop applications that handle their users’ and clients' data safely. Hence, they should allow their project leads and developers to allocate sufficient time for developing secure business apps.

Application Security is a Continuous Process

Security is an ongoing process, where new threats keep evolving, and companies must always be ready to fix them at the earliest, so that the security threats don’t affect their business applications. For many companies, it involves logistical and practical challenges. Companies are trying to cope with the pain points that we discussed above. Industries like fintech, healthcare, etc. are fighting security problems with the help of their in-house security teams and/or third-party security teams. The important factor here is that the data of the users should be safe.

All these above mentioned pain points are a brief description of the situation of application security in the application development industry. To address pain points, companies can hire third-party companies that are experts in the field of business application security.

Bugsmirror’s Mobile Application Security Suite & Tools (MASST) can solve all the pain points mentioned above. It has:

Threat Detection: Identify security flaws early with CodeLock for static code analysis, RunLock for detailed runtime testing across 45+ attack vectors, APILock for API testing and ThreatLock for expert-level Red Teaming evaluations.

Threat Mitigation: Protect your app from runtime security threats in real time with Bugsmirror Defender, prevent reverse engineering with Bugsmirror Shield, and secure sensitive app data with Bugsmirror Guard.

Threat Visibility: Stay ahead of security risks with the ThreatLens Dashboard, offering real-time monitoring, actionable insights, and Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) integration for complete threat visibility.

Uncover security vulnerabilities with Bugsmirror’s Free Runtime Security Audit, and experience the power of Bugsmirror MASST with a 14-day free trial. You can visit our website or reach out to us for more details.


- Vivek Tanwani

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