Mobile Security Engineering Bootcamp App Shielding

From client-side guesswork to server-verified trust - build attestation, risk scoring, and MASVS evidence that ships.
What you'll learn

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Architect a full mobile-to-backend RASP system spanning Kotlin, Swift, and FastAPI, instead of bolting on a single anti-tamper trick.
Implement root, jailbreak, debugger, emulator, and tamper-signal collection natively on Android (Kotlin/NDK) and iOS (Swift).
Verify Play Integrity and App Attest tokens server-side - because a client-reported "verdict" is not a trust boundary.
Design a weighted, explainable risk-scoring engine that returns allow/warn/step-up/block decisions instead of a single brittle switch.
Map your system to OWASP MASVS/MASTG and produce automated, CI-enforced evidence gates instead of one-time checklists.
Conduct authorized reverse engineering (MobSF, Frida, jadx, apktool, mitmproxy) against your own training apps to validate resilience.
Automate secure releases with GitHub Actions, Semgrep, Gitleaks, SBOMs, Trivy/OSV, Sigstore Cosign signing, and SLSA provenance.
Deploy the backend on Kubernetes with Helm, OPA Gatekeeper policy, Redis-backed replay protection, and mTLS via a service mesh.
Build privacy-aware telemetry pipelines (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana) with data minimization and retention automation baked in.
Deliver a capstone-grade sovereign deployment: data residency design, GDPR/DORA/EU AI Act control mapping, and a signed, tamper-evident research archive.
Requirements

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Requirements

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& Prerequisites Knowledge: Comfortable writing basic code in any language (Kotlin/Swift/Python experience helps but is not required - Module 1 gets you running). Familiarity with using a terminal and Git at a basic level (clone, commit, push). No prior mobile security, reverse engineering, or DevSecOps experience needed. Every advanced concept is built up lab-by-lab. Software (free/open-source): A computer running Windows, macOS, or Linux with at least 16GB RAM recommended (Android emulator + Docker + Kubernetes concurrently). Docker Desktop or Docker Engine, Git, Android Studio, VS Code (or your editor of choice). Python 3.11+, JDK 17. Optional but required for full iOS labs: a Mac with Xcode (free from the App Store) for Swift/iOS development and the iOS Simulator. Learners on Windows/Linux can complete 100% of the Android and backend track and follow documented iOS environment limitations for the capstone. Free-tier accounts: GitHub (for CI/CD labs), Google Play Console access is not required for the Play Integrity labs (mock adapters are used). Hardware: No physical Android or iOS device required - every lab is designed around emulators/simulators. A physical device is a bonus, not a blocker.
Description

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This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.
We only charge a fee solely for the time invested in building this comprehensive curriculum.
Vibe Coding Ends Where Runtime Trust Begins
There is a specific, uncomfortable moment every mobile engineer eventually hits: your app looks secure. It compiles, it passes QA, the demo works, the certificate pinning code is in there somewhere. And then someone runs Frida against your APK in five minutes and reads your business logic like a paperback novel. Or a rooted device farm starts hammering your login API through a "legitimate" copy of your client. Or an auditor asks, calmly, "how do you know this control actually works in production?" - and the honest answer is "we think it does."
That gap - between an app thatlooks protected and a system that isprovably resilient, monitored, and governed - is the entire subject of this course. "Vibe coding" mobile security means bolting on obfuscation, hoping root detection holds, and calling it done.Engineering mobile security means treating the client as an untrusted, observable, tamper-prone endpoint, and building a real architecture around that assumption: signal collection on-device, cryptographic attestation, server-side verification, explainable risk scoring, privacy-respecting telemetry, and automated evidence - all wired together and deployable on real infrastructure.
The Solution: 100 Labs, One Repository, Zero Fluff
This is not a slideshow course. You will build a single, growing Git repository - mobile-rasp-labs - across 100 hands-on labs, each with a Pre-Flight Check, a Safety Net (a real git tag), and a Rollback command, so you never lose progress and never fear breaking something. By Lab 10 you'll have a live Android app, a live iOS app (or a fully documented simulator path if you're on Windows/Linux), and a FastAPI backend exchanging a real runtime risk event. Everything after that adds depth, not fluff.
What's Inside
Modules 1-2 get your workbench running and force you to think like a threat modeler before you write a single detection - MASVS mapping, data-flow inventories, STRIDE, and abuse cases, so every later lab has areason , not just a technique.
Modules 3-4 are where you build real Android (Kotlin, NDK) and iOS (Swift) runtime protection: root and jailbreak signals, debugger detection, tamper checksums, signing fingerprint checks, Play Integrity and App Attest client wrappers, screen protection, and local policy engines - always framed honestly asprobabilistic signals , never magic switches.
Module 5 is the architectural core: a FastAPI backend that never trusts the client, verifying attestation tokens server-side, scoring risk with an explainable weighted model, issuing allow/warn/step-up/block decisions, and defeating replay with nonce protection.
Module 6 turns you loose - ethically and legally, on your own owned apps - with MobSF, Frida, jadx, apktool, and mitmproxy, to prove your defenses actually hold up under controlled attack simulation, and to write the report a real security team would expect.
Modules 7-9 industrialize everything: GitHub Actions CI/CD, Semgrep and Gitleaks scanning, SBOMs, Trivy/OSV vulnerability scanning, Cosign signing, SLSA provenance, automated MASVS evidence gates, OpenTelemetry/Prometheus/Grafana observability, and a full Kubernetes deployment with Helm, OPA Gatekeeper, Redis, PostgreSQL, and a real backup/restore drill.
The Climax: Lab 100 - The Sovereign Mobile RASP Platform
Lab 100 is not a quiz. It is a capstone architecture defense. You will integrate everything - Android and iOS runtime signal paths, backend policy decisions, attestation verification, observability dashboards, signed and provenance-attested release artifacts, a Kubernetes deployment, a GDPR/DORA/EU AI Act compliance control map, and a signed, tamper-evident offline research archive - into one running, scored system. A scoring harness evaluates your evidence, and an "Architecture Review Board" simulation (Lab 98) forces you to defend your tradeoffs the way a real staff engineer would in front of security, legal, and operations. When you finish Lab 100, you won't have a certificate that says you watched videos. You'll have a working, defensible, production-grade platform in your own portfolio - one you built, understand, and can extend.
Why Enroll Now
Mobile security roles are increasingly demanding thefull mobile-to-backend path - not isolated pentesting tricks. This course closes exactly that gap using entirely open-source tooling (MobSF, Frida, OpenTelemetry, OPA, Sigstore, OpenTofu), so what you build here isn't locked behind a vendor SDK you'll lose access to the moment you change jobs. It's yours. Every lab is reproducible, every checkpoint is a git tag, and every claim in this description is backed by a lab number you can go run today.
Who this course is for

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The Aspiring Mobile/Application Security Engineer You can write code and you understand basic security concepts, but every job posting for "mobile security," "product security," or "application security engineer" asks for MASVS, Frida, attestation, and CI/CD evidence - not just "found a bug once." This course builds the exact skill cluster hiring managers describe, lab by lab, until you can walk into a technical interview and talk architecture, not just tools.
The Backend/Full-Stack Developer Moving Into Security You're solid on APIs and services but mobile clients feel like a black box, and "just add RASP" sounds like marketing. This course treats the mobile app as one untrusted input source among many - you'll build the FastAPI risk engine, the attestation verification, and the policy decisions that make client signals actually trustworthy, using skills you already have.
The Senior Engineer Seeking Sovereignty and Depth You've shipped mobile apps or backend systems for years and you're tired of RASP being a vendor black box you can't audit, extend, or explain to a compliance team. This course is fully open-source-tool-based - Frida, MobSF, OpenTelemetry, OPA, Sigstore - so you own the architecture end-to-end, from GDPR data-residency boundaries to a signed, reproducible evidence archive you control.
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