TASAM - Towards the Smart Devices App-Stores Applications Security Management Related Best Practices

Mobile phone applications (Apps) including the financial services related mobile Apps such as the banking Apps, are becoming the wave of the future and these must be developed, managed and monitored with a great consideration, in order to ensure the Apps security. It is therefore, a huge responsibility of different Apps publishers and the application stores (App-Stores) to develop and maintain an up-to-date Apps delivery security mechanism. This paper aims to present a proposal on mobile application stores Apps management security related good practices, by reviewing the current security measures deployed by different major mobile application stores and by developing the Apps management best practices, based on the finding of the review.