iOS 9 brings for the applications in the App Store an important security measure that will be imposed by the Apple company in not too long, with the role of better securing our data during the transfer from terminals to various servers and vice versa.
In the attached image you have the system called App Transport Security, which basically says that applications for iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch must make data transmissions between the user and the developer's servers, or others, using a secure connection.
More specifically, Apple says that applications must transfer data only using the HTTPS protocol with various security sub-protocols, thus user data being encrypted and, theoretically, impossible to be intercepted by hackers.
The idea from Apple comes at a time when the Google company is increasingly supporting the adoption of the HTTPS protocol for websites, so that with both Google and Apple behind it, this protocol will reach more and more websites soon.
App Transport Security (ATS) lets an app add a declaration to its Info.plist file that specifies the domains with which it needs secure communication. ATS prevents accidental disclosure, provides secure default behavior, and is easy to adopt. You should adopt ATS as soon as possible, regardless of whether you're creating a new app or updating an existing one. If you're developing a new app, you should use HTTPS exclusively. If you have an existing app, you should use HTTPS as much as you can right now, and create a plan for migrating the rest of your app as soon as possible.
Although App Transport Security is announced as part of the new features of iOS 9, it is unlikely that Apple will for now reject applications that also transfer data via HTTP, but starting next year things will change radically.
Starting from 2016, Apple will most likely refuse to publish in the App Store applications that do not transfer data through the HTTPS protocol, so things will get better for us, because data will be better protected when we use various applications .
What do you think about this new security measure?
