The DOD’s App Store Does This One Crucial Thing to Stay Secure

guest · Jul 4, 2018

The DOD’s App Store Does This One Crucial Thing to Stay Secure
To keep malware at bay, the GEOINT App Store has a screening process that no commercial platform could ever match.
July 3, 2018
https://www.wired.com/story/dod-app-store-does-this-one-crucial-thing-to-stay-secure/

Every Day, Companies like Google and Apple wage a constant battle to keep malicious apps out of their marketplaces and off people's phones

"We built the App Store to be a completely unclassified environment that's open to the public," says Ben Foster, a technical director at NGA who is the product manager for the app store.
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After a developer submits their app, Engility does extensive source code analysis and vulnerability scanning and produces an initial findings report.

In addition to digging deep into source code, IGAPP also tests how apps function in practice, to make sure that there aren't benign-looking aspects of the code that actually underlie a shady function.
[...] The brokered vetting process means that the government never holds developers' source code directly.
[...] All of this means a consumer-grade turnaround time for critical Department of Defense tools without the consumer-grade security concerns.
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