<p class="R-AbstractKeywords"><span lang="EN-US">Android is the most popular mobile operating system nowadays both for smartphones and tablets. This fact creates many not fully recognized risks. Often even advanced users naive think that using antivirus software, firewall, encryption, updates, as well as avoiding potentially risky sites and applications are enough for security. This list is not full, but nevertheless each its item in most cases only conceals an illusion of reaching the security. Authors have summarized and pointed out several actual Android security issues and have proposed a number of possible solutions.</span></p><p class="R-AbstractKeywords"><span lang="EN-US">The practical experience as well as direct testing show that part of Android applications may contain a malware. The harmful characteristics of an application often become visible only after some runs, or after an update, or after a harmful web content is downloaded and shown by the application. It is observed that applications often try to get an unauthorized or inattentively authorized access to user data and send it outside the device. </span></p><p class="R-AbstractKeywords"><span lang="EN-US">The situation with Android applications gets more and more out of the control. The authors propose a solution to overcome the security issues, while respecting the latest Google solutions. Target group of the proposal are users that use smartphone or tablet both for private and corporate needs, i.e. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) case.</span></p><p class="R-AbstractKeywords"><span lang="EN-US">The authors point out and compare four possible Android technical administration solutions based on the unified model for BYOD case. The authors also propose the changes to Android architecture to enhance its security. It is proposed to look at the mobile operating system as a web server. Such principle allows implementing in Android a number of security principles taken from the web servers solutions.</span></p>
The mobile conquers the world. The need in a comprehensive and systemized multiedge testing approach is rising along with mobile apps becoming even more complex. As a leader in enterprise market, Apple iOS has been chosen as a target mobile platform for the study. The authors have investigated aspects that influence functional testing of iOS apps in particular, and mobilein general. The study also exposes the security capabilities and risks that often are not mitigated in favor of time to market rush. Investigation and clustering of mobile UI test automation tools is performed. The capabilities and limitations of Apple UIAutomation are discovered. Solutions aimed at overcoming the limitations of out of the box UIAutomation are united in tTap framework developed by the authors. In conclusion an ideal cross-platform mobile UI test automation tool is proposed.
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