The App Defense Alliance was launched last year, in collaboration between Google, ESET, Lookout, and Zimperium in order to tackle Play Store’s malware issues. The Alliance further launched the Mobile Application Security Assessment (MASA) audit. In order to inform customers that the applications they are installing on their phones have been created in accordance with industry mobile security and privacy minimal best practices, software developers can use this method to get their apps independently verified against a global security standard.
The objective behind the review badge is that if app developers follow this method in order to mitigate any security flaw, it will make it more challenging for hackers to compromise users’ devices and, as a result, the quality of apps across the ecosystem will improve.
Applications that have received this badge have successfully undergone a MASA audit. Moreover, in order to maintain the badge every year, app developers will have to go through an additional independent assessment.
Nataliya Stanetsky of the Android Security and Privacy Team states in a Google Security Blog post this week that, “While certification to baseline security standards does not imply that a product is free of vuln
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