Application shielding, particularly obfuscation, is a layer of digital rights management which a company may want to add to their apps in order to satisfy licensing or regulatory requirements. It is genuinely useful for that purpose and I would recommend the technology to a company creating something like a video streaming service," says Will Strafach, an iOS security researcher and the president of Sudo Security Group. "But in something like financial apps the choice to not obfuscate their code is not a problem, because it does not add security and can be defeated without much difficulty.“*Fraud