Ok, it seems that everyone and their brother is creating an iPhone app these days, which is why the App store is estimated to have 267,000 active applications available (over 6.5 billion downloads!). So let’s create a run-down of security-industry related applications in the app store. I’ll start with a short list, and if you’d like, add any you want to mention to the comments area with a link to the App store. Buyer beware, however. Some of these apps are better than others. You’d be smart to check the ratings and user comments. Some apps are clearly unauthorized and don’t get the support you’d need.
P.S. Here’s a great tip for finding apps in the Apple Applications store using Google and keywords. Simply go to Google.com and in Google's search box put in this text: keywords go here site:apple.com/us/app
Put your keywords in place of “keywords go here” (and don’t use the quotation marks). It will specifically search the U.S. iTunes app store for iPod, iTouch and iPad on any keywords you want.
[OK, so here's the deal with comments on this post. You can link to and mention and promote any iPod, iPad or iTouch app that is related to security. Please do! Let's try to make a pretty comprehensive list on this blog! But if you promote an app, the link has to be to the iTunes/Apple site, not to your own website. If you can't link to the app, read my pointers above, and use links similar to how I presented them for the above. If you end up promoting an app that I don't think is related to security, I'm going to axe your comment so you don't spam my blog. People are welcome to post any comments they have about security "apps" for the Apple products; tell us what you love and what you hate. I know you can do this on the reviews part of the app store, so if you don't do it here, c'est la vie.]
-Geoff
