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About the workshop
Our iOS workshop aims to provide an insight into every aspect of secure mobile application development. In order to cover everything a developer needs to commit and publish secure code through the App Store, the agenda is built from the ground up and has been designed to provide practical exercises throughout the entire training.
After a short introduction, we take a look at the overall Apple/iOS philosophy, the OS security features and their implications on the daily life of a developer. We take a look at typical issues in iOS applications (many of those result in immediate rejection from App Store upload), how problematic challenges can be tackled and how typical pitfalls can be avoided. Throughout the course, a plethora of in-house demo applications are provided to highlight issues.
The 'Mobile security baseline' module can be taken as general preps to this course. While the 'Mobile testing automation' module greatly extends the coverage of the practical field. 
The training has been tested and used successfully with several mobile heavy developer companies.
Properties
title: iOS security design and secure coding
audience: iOS developers, architects and testers, security engineers, security champions
duration: 1 XL day (7hrs education time), or 2 days combined with the 'Mobile security baseline' module
developed by: Zsombor Kovács​
Prerequisites
We assume that the developers attending the iOS secdev course:
Are familiar with with the mobile apps development process and technologies;
Have a suitable IDE installed on their MacBook
with Xcode and the latest SDK installed,
and a valid developer profile (a free limited 7-day developer licence is sufficient);
Ideally bring an iOS device.
Related courses
​Mobile security baseline​
​Mobile testing automation​
​Android security design and secure coding​
Agenda
Intro
'Into the middle of things' demo: "Bugs and flaws in your app help bad guys"
Security mechanisms in iOS
Application signing in iOS
Application design in iOS
Common design patterns
Architecture of an iOS app
Secure API design
Designing a reasonable communication flow
Secure data storage
iOS storage encryption
Protection classes, storage formats and their security implications
Data storage and backups (iTunes, iCloud, 3rd party applications)
Logging
Hands-on: (in)secure storage in applications
Network security
App Transport Security
Certificate pinning
Hands-on: certificate pinning implementation and potential bypass methods
Inter-process communication
Custom protocol handlers
Hands-on: attacking and securing an insecure custom protocol handler
Secure crypto implementation
Crypto implementation in iOS. CCCrypt and wrappers
Designing a secure crypto engine, what to do and what to avoid. The dangers of home grown ciphers 
Hands-on: insecure crypto examples, the extraction of a hard wired encryption key
Environmental interaction in iOS
The iOS environment philosophy, the evolution of the 'iOS cage'
Expected and unexpected environmental intervetions throughout the application lifecycle
Hands-on: screen masking, side channel data leakage, WebView issues 
Secure implementation in
Swift
Objective C 
Non-native/hybrid app development: Flutter, React, etc.
Tampering detection
Jailbreaking, implications of running on a jailbroken device
Dynamic hooking and method swizzling
Hands-on: bypassing jailbreak detection in several ways
Trainers
Lead trainer:
​Zsombor Kovács​
Co-trainer:
​Glenn ten Cate​
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