A considerable amount of work has been carried out in the industry in the arena of mobile security,
both defensive and offensive in nature.
Of interest is the dire need to develop and maintain standards that can be used for developing apps securely. One prime example of this draws attention to the iPhone Stealth Airborne Malware project [4] that created malware using the very tools that are used to develop apps. There are multiple tools available that enable an app developer to create apps, even test them during the development stage. It should leave no question as to whether an external standard should also be applied that will provide the coverage needed to ensure the app is being developed to the highest possible standard of security. Many tools and services exist that perform some level of testing to pre-determined scripts. These work in conjunction with subject matter experts who observe the app's source or binary code as a measure to counter the false positives and negatives that users of these tools often experience.