Owasp-Goatdroid Android Mobile Application Security

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open source project that mainly work for application layer security projects, OWASP has released several tools before like OWASP ZAP. This is not over OWASP has published different documents and OWASP has set a standard for web application security. Mobile technology is the growing technology and every one of us has mobile phones. The are different mobile software (mobile operating system) available like android, Linux mobile, Windows mobile, iOS and others.

Android is one of the best and most famous mobile operating system and now a days android got a lot of attention from security researchers, OWASP has also started a project for Android operating system and the project called OWASP GoatDroid Project.

What Is OWASP GoatDroid Project ?

The OWASP GoatDroid Project pays homage to the OWASP WebGoat Project. It is a fully functional and self-contained environment for learning more about vulnerabilities and security issues for the Android platform.
The entire application and framework is Java based. There is no need to install an external web server or container. You do however, need MySQL, the Android SDK, and Eclipse. Each web service runs on embedded Jetty instances and uses the Jersey implementation of JAX-RS.

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OWASP GoatDroid Tutorial

Instead of writing our own tutorial it is highly recommended for you to check the official tutorial from the website.


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