droidcon SF 2018 - Your App is a Giant DDOS Botnet

Sanae Rosen

Your App is a Giant DDOS Botnet and Other Reasons to Manage and Monitor Your Network Traffic

Making mobile apps is inherently riskier than making a normal website: code you write sticks around potentially forever and, in the best case, updates take several hours. Unwanted or unexpected network traffic has a high cost as well. Users pay a lot of money for data and, in the worst case, with millions of users, your app can send enough traffic to your servers to cause serious problems.

For this reason, we came to the conclusion that we need a systematic way of making mobile traffic safe. In this talk, I’ll discuss how we designed and built a tool for monitoring and managing all network traffic from inside the app. Using our monitoring tools, we’re able to detect and diagnose anomalous traffic. If necessary, with an external signal, we can safely shut off specific types of mobile traffic until the underlying issue can be fixed, protecting users’ batteries and data plans.

Content and programming organized by Ty Smith, GDE/GDG & Mobile Tech Lead Manager at Uber & Joaquim Verges, GDG & Android Tech Lead at Twitch.

Big thanks to our video sponsor Asana - https://asana.com/.

See you at droidcon SF 2019! November 18-19 @ Mission Bay Conference Center. Get your tickets here - https://droidconsf2019.eventbrite.com...