Mobile computing continues to grow across all industries, and at the same time it’s creating an even bigger attack surface. Public app stores enable end users to download them to their own devices — outside the business perimeter — and run them in untrusted environments. Today’s cybercriminals are exploiting this distribution environment and have expanded their operations to attack mobile apps for financial gain by stealing customer identities, intellectual property, or by gaining access to back office systems. A recent report from Accenture Consulting found that more than 60% of mobile banking apps are at risk for reverse engineering attacks.
Mobile app attacks are all executed through reverse engineering — the disassembly of apps back to the original code through the use of commonly available tools. Once disassembled bad actors can uncover critical algorithms, understand how to best tamper with code, uncover keys, sensitive data, and obtain API access. To counteract these threats, apps must be hardened to protect against reverse engineering, defend against compromises, and respond to threats. Additionally, to close the loop and prevent threats from becoming large scale attacks, apps need to be able to report back to the business about the kinds of threats being encountered.
Android App Protection
Digital.ai Application Protection for Android features automated, comprehensive, and customizable protections for applications developed using Java or Kotlin.
Digital.ai’s application protection solutions go beyond traditional runtime application self-protection (RASP) by providing rooted device detection, layered and adaptive app protection, data encryption, and threat alerting and analytics.
Zero-trust is a concept centered on the belief that organizations should not trust anything inside or outside their perimeter and instead verify anything and everything trying to connect to its systems before granting access.
Once deployed, identified app threats can be dealt with in the short-term with defensive tactics, such as locking account access and disabling app functionality. Longer term corrective action can then include enhancing protections with code, data, and key encryption to provide remediation to the specific threats identified.
Digital.ai Application Protection for Android Capabilities
- Rapid time-to-protection that is integrated into the DevSecOps process without disrupting development or production with smooth, rapid post-code, on-premises, or cloud-based integration into existing development operations and frameworks
- Java and Kotlin based app code-level application protection that does not require source code changes and has minimal impact on the software development life cycle (SDLC)
- Static and Active protections to safeguard applications against reverse-engineering attacks
- Self-protection code guards that monitor and defend apps and themselves against attack — eliminating single point of protection failures
- Integrated threat analytics delivers real-time threat detection and attack alerting to provide an understanding of the threat posture of every Digital.ai deployed app
- Root detection and notification to ensure apps are running in secure environments, so the business can take appropriate action
- Malicious Package Detection
- Platform support that keeps pace with the latest versions of Android operating systems
Protecting Apps from the Inside Out
Digital.ai provides comprehensive, app-level security to protect against a range of threats or to enforce enterprise app governance — expanding the corporate perimeter of trust. Digital.ai provides a broad range of patented security capabilities to protect applications in the wild — such as a dynamic app policy engine, code hardening, obfuscation, white-box cryptography and encryption, and threat analytics.
About Digital.ai
Digital.ai is an industry-leading technology company dedicated to helping Global 5000 enterprises achieve digital transformation goals. The company’s AI-powered DevSecOps platform unifies, secures, and generates predictive insights across the software lifecycle. Digital.ai empowers organizations to scale software development teams, continuously deliver software with greater quality and security while uncovering new market opportunities and enhancing business value through smarter software investments.
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