iVerify. - Secure your Phone!

An app in which I can recommend to people to use and run through several exercises that promotes training and awareness. For years I have used a collection of links which at times change or are no longer available. This just simplifies this process. Recommendation for the developer - as IOS changes and users install different IOS versions, will the app detect the version and provide the instructions accordingly or will this app prompt the user to select their IOS version and provide instructions for that specific version?

The amazing achievement of this app is just how accessible its capabilities and its instructions are. To tighten your personal security, you have got to take some actions that can’t be automated. But this app breaks those actions into snack sized steps that are nicely explained and illustrated. And the reasons for taking those steps, so you can see why you should do them, are clearly explained in plain language. This is a magnificent achievement. Thank you, Trail of Bits!

Of course, the only thing this app can tell you is your security posture because iOS is a walled garden. The only way to have true insight into security of an iOS device is the enterprise grade level. Nothing wrong with that for non-security minded people. However, I’ve offered all of this exact information on my personal website for free for the current and past two iOS firmware versions, not to mention the same material. I paid the $5 knowing it would be worthless for myself, but even for non-security minded people, it’s a bit steep to pay.

App is well designed and works well. The concept of both doing automated checks as well as education is great. Anyone following through the checklists can make appropriate judgements of what risks they’re willing to take and they’ll be more secure for it.

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Save your $ A majority of this is just advising you. It can’t see what security measures you have already put in place and advise you on what’s missing, it’s just a$5 run through of what you can do to secure your phone better. The ‘limit software exploits’ section could not detect that my auto updates were on. You get a content blocker for safari basically.