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Umang Chavda

Umang Chavda is an experienced pentester and security engineer. He holds 6+ years in the fields of application security and information security - performing advanced assessments in the areas of API security, mobile applications security, thick client assessments, and secure code review.

3 things you should be doing when you pentest an Android application

January 18, 2019

Est Read Time: 2 min

To perform a pentest on an android application there are three important things that should be done by the pentester.

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