Approov provides a robust mobile app and API security solution designed to prevent unauthorized access, fraud, and API abuse. By ensuring that only genuine, untampered mobile applications can communicate with backend services, Approov protects businesses across industries such as finance, healthcare, eCommerce, and connected vehicles.
The solution combines app attestation and runtime application self-protection (RASP) to detect and block threats from scripts, bots, and modified apps in real time. Approov also secures API keys, secrets, and certificates at runtime, preventing leakage and unauthorized use.
Unlike traditional security measures that rely on static defenses, Approov dynamically adapts to evolving threats, providing scalable, developer-friendly protection without generating false positives.
Seller
Approov LimitedLanguages Supported
Arabic, German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
Product Description
Approov's Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP solution offers a comprehensive, cross-platform security framework designed to safeguard mobile applications and their APIs across Android, iOS, and HarmonyOS. By integrating Approov, developers can ensure that only genuine, untampered apps operating in secure environments can access backend services, effectively mitigating risks associated with unauthorized access, fraud, and API abuse.
Key Features and Functionality:
- App Attestation: Verifies the authenticity of the mobile app and the device it runs on, ensuring that only legitimate applications can interact with backend APIs.
- Real-Time Threat Intelligence: Provides immediate insights into deployed apps, their operating environments, and any active threats, enabling proactive security measures.
- Dynamic Certificate Pinning: Protects against Man-in-the-Middle (MitM attacks by implementing secure, over-the-air certificate pin updates without service disruptions.
- Runtime Secrets Protection: Eliminates the need for hardcoded API keys and secrets within the app by delivering them just-in-time to authenticated app instances, reducing the risk of credential theft.
- API Security: Safeguards backend APIs from various threats, including API abuse, credential stuffing, fake botnet registrations, and Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS attacks.
- App Shielding: Detects and responds to unsafe operating environments on client devices, such as rooted or jailbroken devices, debuggers, emulators, and malicious frameworks.
Primary Value and Problem Solved:
Approov's RASP solution addresses the critical need for robust mobile app and API security by ensuring that only authentic, untampered applications running in secure environments can access backend services. This approach effectively prevents unauthorized access, fraud, and API abuse, thereby protecting sensitive data and maintaining user trust. By integrating Approov, organizations can proactively defend against evolving threats, ensuring the integrity and security of their mobile applications and associated APIs.
Overview by
Joyce Kuo
