Mobile Application Security: What Every Organization Needs to Know

by Tom Eston on June 10, 2026

Mobile apps are now deeply connected platforms for identities, payments, sessions, APIs, healthcare, retail, gaming, and cloud services. In this special episode, Tom Eston talks with Joel Destefano, Senior Product Manager at Guardsquare, about the modern mobile app threat landscape and why organizations can’t treat mobile security as an afterthought.

Topics include runtime manipulation, API abuse, account takeover, fake apps, overlays, malware-assisted fraud, reverse engineering, iOS vs Android risk, AI-assisted attacks, and why backend-only security is not enough.

Special thanks to Guardsquare for sponsoring this episode! Guardsquare is the leader in mobile application security, with multi-layered protection for your Android and iOS apps. Learn more at Guardsquare.com.

** Links mentioned on the show **

Find out more about Guardsquare
https://www.guardsquare.com/

Guardsquare’s Blog and Research Center
https://www.guardsquare.com/blog
https://www.guardsquare.com/mobile-app-security-research-center/welcome

OWASP Mobile Application Security
https://owasp.org/www-project-mobile-app-security/

OWASP MASVS
https://mas.owasp.org/MASVS/

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*** This is a Security Bloggers Network syndicated blog from Shared Security Podcast authored by Tom Eston. Read the original post at: https://sharedsecurity.net/2026/06/10/mobile-application-security-what-every-organization-needs-to-know/