A security team is assessing a newly developed smartphone application that processes sensitive information. They need to detect flaws that appear during execution and confirm data handling issues in live memory. Which method is the most effective for discovering these vulnerabilities?
Capturing traffic with an external tool running on the network
Using an emulator with a live environment and instrumentation
Configuring the application to produce verbose logging
Reviewing the application's source code with a line-by-line analyzer
When a test is performed in an active environment with device-based instrumentation, flaws that occur at runtime can be observed and analyzed. This includes issues that manifest in live memory and data handling routines. A purely static inspection or traffic capture does not reveal memory-resident behavior. Logging configuration is unrelated to runtime flaw detection.
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