Safely Deploy HTML5-Based Mobile Apps in the Cloud

Michael Garrity — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:17:00 GMT

appMobi, a provider of cloud-based HTML5 mobile development and deployment tools and services, has officially announced a licensable enterprise version of it’s mobile app development and cloud services stack.

The new service, privateStack, was built to aid businesses, government agencies and other organizations in completing mobile application deployments with end-to-end control for enhanced security and more. Many of appMobi’s enterprise customers had expressed interest in creating hybrid, Web-based mobile apps for different audiences, including sales teams, services technicians, executives, operations personnel and customers.

Hybrid apps tend to appeal to enterprises because of how much they simplify app creation and deployment using HTML5, as opposed to the more arcane languages (e.g. Objective C) used by native app developers. However, these requests were often hampered by concerns about data security, service quality and the general difficulty of distributing corporate apps in public app stores. Thus, appMobi came up with privateStack to address these problems. It will provide enterprise CTOs with the ability to support native-quality, cross-platform, HTML5-based mobile apps with total control over hosting geography, security, user authentication and gateways into corporate data silos.

privateStack comes with all of appMobi’s HTML5 development tools for hybrid development with both appMobi and PhoneGap, as well as all of the features from appMobi’s cloud services platform, including authentication, rich media push messaging, mobile app analytics, remote app updates, in-app purchasing, gamification and social network interfaces.

All privateStack applications can be built into iOS and Android store-ready apps or deployed on secure corporate intranets. The service is offered by appMobi as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI) for top-tier update and rapid, seamless scalability. It’s also offered in both managed and custom configurations.

Customers interested in hosting privateStack on their personal corporate data centers can do so thanks to the availability of enterprise source licensing.

Distributed Key Technology from AppMobi

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:18:00 GMT

appMobi released an authentication technology today dubbed cloudKey which could change ecommerce security for the better.

cloudKey is unique in that the user’s credit card information is stored on the user’s device and never in an online database. The private data is stored using 256 bit AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). Using a distributed key topology, cloudKey stores only the decryption keys in the cloud. Since that information is all but worthless without the device and password in hand, we could have a real winner here.

“With this advance, cloudKey has eliminated all the tempting targets for the bad guys; even if they could steal appMobi’s entire crypto key database and a user’s device, they’d then have to guess the user’s password, and at most they could get only 1 credit card number,” said Sam Abadir, appMobi’s CTO. “It would be a huge expenditure of effort for very little gain. By keeping private data local on the device, cloudKey makes massive security losses like the recent 77 million account Sony PlayStation network breach impossible.”

The product, which is available for use in Web and mobile apps, will be integrated immediately into appMobi’s 1Touch “single touch” payment system. The 1Touch technology integrated with any payment gateway including PayPal or Authorize.net and can even used with direct carrier billing.

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Safely Deploy HTML5-Based Mobile Apps in the Cloud

Distributed Key Technology from AppMobi