Securing Android applications is an important challenge for many developers. Whether you are trying to defend business secrets from corporate espionage attacks, or you are trying to defend users against hackers, developers need to think about how their apps can prevent data theft. While Android itself does some things to help defend users and their data, those defenses are all too easily bypassed, leaving it up to you, the app developer, to defend your app and your users.

This one-hour webinar will review a number of security issues that plague Android apps. Some, like incomplete implementations of SSL, are fairly well-known. Others, like flaws in Android's permission system, are less well-known, yet may affect your application. This webinar will emphasize the latter category: the sorts of security problems that Android developers are less likely to have heard about.

This is an online event, hosted using a Dozeo meeting space. It should work on any desktop browser with Adobe Flash 11.5 support. Notably, this means that Linux users will likely need Google Chrome (not Chromium) to get the Flash support. You can check your system compatibility to confirm that your browser should work. Audio for the presentation will also be online, so speakers or headphones are strongly encouraged. Groups wishing to attend are welcome to do so -- the tickets are per-connection to the meeting space, not per-person.

Subscribers to the CommonsWare Warescription have access to a discount code for this event -- if you are a subscriber, visit your Warescription page for details. However, discount codes are only available for the first 8 attendees per time slot.

Registrants will be emailed instructions, including a link for the Dozeo meeting space, ~24 hours before the webinar.