Chapter    13

Locking It Down: iOS Security

Application security is an important aspect of development. Protecting your users’ information is an essential feature that you need to think about while developing. It’s important to remember that security is not a product, nor is it a check-mark that you can think about at the end of the development. Security is a process that has to be taken in to consideration during all stages of development, from design to implementation, through testing and release.

We’ll go over some basic security issues you should keep in mind and how to handle them in iOS. Then we’ll cover Security SDK, which provides three services: Certificate, Key, and Trust Services, which are used to manage certificates, keys, and trust ...

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