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Apple @ Work Podcast: Securing mobile apps in the age of vibe coding
Apple @ Work Podcast Apple @ Work is exclusively brought to you by Mosyle, the only Apple Unified Platform. Mosyle is the only solution that integrates in a single professional-grade platform all the solutions necessary to seamlessly and automatically deploy, manage & protect Apple devices at work. Over 45,000 organizations trust Mosyle to make millions of Apple devices work-ready with no effort and at an affordable cost. Request your EXTENDED TRIAL today and understand why Mosyle is everything you need to work with Apple. In this episode of Apple @ Work, Alan Snyder from NowSecure joins the show to talk about MARI and the risks of LLM-generated code in mobile apps. Listen and subscribe Apple Podcasts Overcast Spotify Pocket Casts Castro RSS Listen to Past Episodes FTC: We use income earning auto affiliate links. More. Author Bradley C Bradley has worked at K-12 independent schools for much of the last 20 years, serving as the head of the information technology department and leading classroom technology integration. He’s well-versed in enterprise Wi-Fi, macOS and iOS system management, school technology, and SaaS tools. Bradley C's favorite gear
Vibe Coding Risk: Securing AI-Generated Mobile Apps
Part 2 of the series following “AI Vibe Coding for Mobile Apps: Easy or Secure?” From “Easy” to “Secure”: What Happens After the First Build In Part 1, we explored how quickly AI can generate a functional mobile app. With great ideas and the right prompts, you can go from vision to working application in hours. But vibing introduces a new problem: security is left to the AI platform, which means there is no “secure by design,” there is no security validation and there is no way to know the security posture of the app. So the real question becomes: is it secure enough to ship and use? This blog examines my experience using the NowSecure mobile application security testing analysis to auto-remediate the vibe coding security issues. A Common Pattern: Working App, Insecure Communication The app runs well, connects to the AI platforms via APIs and appears production-ready. The NowSecure security analysis, for iOS and Android, shows that there are very serious security issues that need to be addressed. Vibe coders are completely dependent on the AI platform to get it right and these vibe coded apps scored a 25 out of 100 which is a failing grade. It makes sense that vibing doesn’t get mobile app security and privacy, traditional web application security testing tools and processes don’t get mobile apps either. Mobile apps require mobile app domain and security knowledge. Whether vibing or doing traditional development, the fact that mobile is different and requires domain specific knowledge remains constant. AI can build a mobile app in hours but without security validation, it can ship risk just as fast. Turning Mobile Security Findings into Action To close that gap, I used the mobile app security testing results from NowSecure as input back into Replit. I was hopeful that the detailed information in the NowSecure analysis would be sufficient for Replit to both understand and fix all of the issues. NowSecure Platform analysis provided: Severity-ranked findings Evidence for all findings Detailed descriptions and business impact Sample code Clear remediation guidance aligned to mobile platforms The best part is that I did not need to know mobile app development to build the app and I did not need to know mobile app security testing to test the app. Now let’s see if I can also avoid the need to know anything to fix the app 🙂 The Recursive Loop: NowSecure Finds It, AI Fixes It I uploaded the NowSecure Android analysis into Replit first with a s...
The Real Cost of Vibe Coding in Production: Security Vulnerabilities ...
Vibe coding lets you build an app in 3 days, but production exposes the real risks. This guide covers Veracode and Escape.tech research, breaks down RLS misconfigurations, API key leaks, and scaling failures, and provides an actionable 15-point production security checklist for indie makers.
Ring the alarm! Your IT security program has a mobile-app gap
Nevertheless, Snyder tried doing just that, vibe-coding a mobile app in about five hours, as he detailed in a recent NowSecure blog post. Then he ran the app through NowSecure's own security-testing tools — and it totally failed.
