Even with all the evidence pointing in favor of building your application, don’t decide to move forward lightly. With over 1.5 million apps each in Apple’s App and Google Play Store, it’s important to run through the mobile app development process and how your application will fit in with both your marketing goals and your market niche. Mobile App Development Lifecycle is just a representation of the conventional Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) from the perspective of a mobile device.In today’s time, making a mobile application isn’t rocket science. However, making a successful mobile application is a process involving quite an extensive pre-planning. Building your mobile application could be as easy as opening up the IDE, throwing a few things together, doing a fast round of testing, and submitting it to an App Store, all done in half day’s work. Or you can make it an extremely involved process involving rigorous up-front design, QA testing on a whole lot of devices, usability testing, a full beta lifecycle, and then deployment some different ways. The path you choose will give shape to your vision. With that said, here’s a look at the app development lifecycle and the objectives and challenges along the way. 1. The Research All apps start with an idea, even if yours is just to have a mobile app presence. Refine that idea into a solid basis for an application. Make sure your initial analysis includes actual demographics, motivations, behavior patterns and goals of your buyer persona. During each stage of the process, keep the end user in mind. Now, try to think of your customer’s lifecycle, once...
“Very few firms have made changes in order to foster better retention and recruitment of female staff” One third of cyber security roles in the UK are proving difficult to fill due to a skills gap, useless vendor-accredited qualifications, and high salary demands that are “exacerbated” by wage disparity between London and the rest of the UK. This is according to research from the department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport that found roughly 653,000 business in the UK have a basic cyber skills gap, while 408,000 businesses are experiencing issues filling advanced roles. A key issue creating these gaps is the variations in quality of accredited training. As one business cited in the report noted: “We have a lot of people who have qualifications but have no clue what they are talking about.” The fast-changing nature of cybersecurity means that academic institutions need to move and change at pace to keep relevant. To addresses DCMS suggests that these institutions establish longer work placements that are integrated into technical courses; this would give in-training cyber staff real-world experience, in-line with the skills that businesses demand. One large business stated that: “If the government could promote or endorse training, with a grading structure or criteria that people have to meet, that would be very good. If they could create a structure where private companies deliver the same quality of training, that would be really good.” DCMS Cyber Report Shows Gender and Diversity Disparity The cyber security sector in the UK is still struggling with problems of gender and diversity as only 15 percent of the workforce is female. The study ...
This column is authored by Ray Parker, Digital Marketer, Iqvis Brand recognition and reaching out to customers is the key to success for any business. The ever-changing business scenario and innovation in technology has changed the face of marketing. Imagine yourself in the early 80’s and 90’s when you were handed brochures and pamphlets distributed by brands to make consumers aware of their new product line. Today, almost every company is heading towards business app. The reason is quite simple that the people are connected to the internet all day long on mobile. Whether it be a news, updates about the company or addition of new product line, users are informed instantly without an extra effort. Whether it’s a small business, a startup or well-established company, having a mobile app is necessary. Most of the small enterprises are worried about the cost of developing a mobile app. However, mobile app development solutions vary a lot depending on the features, type of app or the platform on which it is developed. If you want to stay ahead of the competition, the catch is to get your app developed. Don’t worry about the cost because, in the long-run, you are going to reap the benefits at large. Here are some of the tips to reduce your app development cost. Document Your Requirements As discussed earlier, cost of mobile app development depends on the number of requirements. The more the requirements are, the higher the cost of app development. Before opting out for mobile development solution, make sure to have clear goals on what is required by your company. Make sure to have proper...
A FORMER West Dorset MP has been criticised for controversial comments made live on air during a radio broadcast which said ‘some autistic person’ could pose a risk to cyber security. Sir Oliver Letwin was speaking about his new book Apocalypse How? on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme when he made the comments. His new novel, set in 2037, explores our dependence on technology – and how it is leaving the UK ‘open to catastrophe.’ Speaking to Today co-host Justin Webb, Sir Oliver said: “We are not prepared for the problems we are storing up in a network always connected to a digitally controlled society and if it all goes wrong, it will go very, very wrong. “Things are getting vastly more efficient because we are moving towards, essentially, having one network. “What I picture in this book is a time when things have got to the stage where there is just one network and that has huge advantages. It also has a disadvantage which means we’re very vulnerable because if that network goes down, everything that we rely on stops. “We are making ourselves more efficient, more powerful, more wealthy; but we’re also making ourselves more fragile and more vulnerable. There are so many different ways that these networks could be attacked, either by nature or a terrorist attack, another country attacking us or, in fact, just some autistic person or some strange youth sitting in some place in the world who’s connected to our network by the internet who gets in and does something.” He called for an ‘analogue fallback’ to global networks. His comment caused a...
As the penetration testing landscape evolves and morphs; everyone seems to be “hot and heavy” on app-based testing, whether this be fuzzing a thick client or an API. One of the key things I’ve found with many clients is that they’ve gone “soft” on proper insider threat hygiene starting with network security basics. In this article, I’ll run through (2) scripts that I’ve made in Python using Scapy’s framework that can help out in many use cases: red team tunneling, purple team IOC’s, and general defender foundations. Let’s get the housekeeping out of the way: *Disclaimer* – The tools and methodologies shown in this article are for security enhancement needs, education, and experimental use. Do not run or perform any illegal, unethical, or otherwise troublesome activities that violate policies, compliance requirements, or legislation locally or internationally. Why this article?: Many newer security professionals in the field start rolling their eyes, followed with deep heavy groans when I still teach red and blue teams diligence in the network security fundamentals as well. No matter what your stance on where penetration testing, red teaming, and general security ops defense tactics are going; there is no denying that the foundations almost never change. In a recent client facing engagement; a colleague (Michael LaSalvia) and myself were tasked with an on-site pen test engagement (very rare in today’s remote ‘only’ focused type of run of the mill testing). What we found were some oversights at the network security level that our existing toolsets, and rapid Googling just did not provide. So we had to turn to making our own toolsets. This is not a full blown article on...
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