Application Development Guidance: Introduction
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Guidance for risk assessors, and developers of applications which will be run on devices handling OFFICIAL data.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for risk assessors, and developers of applications which will be run on devices handling OFFICIAL data for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Guidance Principles
- Aims & Assumptions
- Generic Mobile Application Development Guidance
- Secure Data Storage
- Data Storage APIs
- Cryptography
- Data Access Authorisation
- Secure Data Transmission
- Session Handling
- Application Hardening
- Stack Protection
- Reverse Engineering
- Jailbreak/Root Detection
- Third Party Applications
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Application Development Guidance: Introduction” (7 August 2016), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026