owasp-mstg VS owasp-masvs

I found a more detailed explanation of it: https://github.com/julepka/owasp-mstg/blob/master/Document/0...

> Generally, you should provide compiled code with as little explanation as possible. Some metadata, such as debugging information, line numbers, and descriptive function or method names, make the binary or bytecode easier for the reverse engineer to understand, but these aren't needed in a release build and can therefore be safely omitted without impacting the app's functionality.

I'm not a big fan of the reasoning, as it's security through obscurity. Which is not the worst tradeoff, but these days it just makes public bug bounties (and other public auditing) end up being less of an interesting prospect for improving security.

https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs :

> The OWASP MASVS (Mobile Application Security Verification Standard) is the industry standard for mobile app security.

owasp-masvs

There is an organization called OWASP that has a series of guidelines, one of which concerns itself with mobile app security. When I worked for a fintech startup, audits were executed based on this guideline, so maybe it's worth taking a look at it: https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs

OWASP MASVS, MSTG, and WSTG.

Security falls under the category non-functional requirements. It should define the needed security functionality the software has to satisfy. To save up time and not re-invent the wheel on each new project, you can select security requirements from a catalog. There is a general one called "Application Security Verification Standard (ASVS)" and one for the mobile named "Mobile Application Verification Standard (MASVS)". They contain a collection of requirements which are best practices for each listed category. Fortunately they have mapped those requirements with CWE (common weakness enumeration which is basically a list of software and hardware weaknesses). Depending on the used tools, those CWEs can be automatically scanned in your code.

The project team of the OWASP Mobile Application Security Verification Standard (https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs) is right in the middle of completely refactoring the document and it's requirements for mobile apps! We were re-visiting this topic in the last few months and tried to identify the current pain points and how they could be removed.

In order to move forward we are looking for your feedback! If you would like to share any feedback or comments of what should be changed in the MASVS, please do so by participating in our Github Discussion:

https://github.com/OWASP/owasp-masvs/discussions/553

I've only been able to scan through the MASVS L2 standard info which you sent. I'll review it more later.