Model Driven Security in a Mobile Banking Application Context

As there are growing number of mobile devices worldwide, the applications running on the mobile hand-helds have great impact on the human life. One of the biggest factors for the usage of mobile applications is security and privacy since there are lots of personal and sensitive information for the individuals which are stored in these mobile devices. Because the mobile devices interact with many other devices and run on different kinds of communication protocols, the complexity and integration of mobile applications with the other digital entities increases much more ever than before. That is the reason the security and privacy issues for the mobile clients should be considered in very early steps of their application development phase which is exactly the analysis and design steps. In this study some of the security and privacy by design methodologies and toolsets have been explored. In the phase of UML modelling and workflow definition parts of the application development life cycle, some appropriate techniques have been used. From early stages of designing to test case generation and test execution steps have been covered, so that end to end secure mobile application development life cycle has been realized.