Appdome Unveils Gen5 Mobile Defense Framework for Mobile Applications and Brands Globally
CIO Applications | Thursday, June 22, 2023
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., -- Appdome, the one-stop-shop for mobile app defense, today announced the release of Generation 5 of its in-app mobile defense framework, the core protection framework delivered by its cyber defense automation platform. With "Gen5", Appdome provides the most advanced cyber and anti-fraud defenses for the newest mobile platforms, more sophisticated in-app UX/UI choices and new telemetry and intelligence options for mobile brands globally.
With the rise of mobile applications as the dominant force in the consumer landscape, mobile operating system and device manufacturers are continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile device capabilities. The advancements include the evolution of programming languages and frameworks utilized in mobile app development, as well as the introduction of new operating system and device architectures. Integrated devices such as smartwatches, virtual reality headsets, and more provide users with enticing and immersive experiences.
However, these new experiences also introduce engineering complexities in securing mobile applications and create new opportunities for hackers and malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities. Traditional mobile security and anti-fraud software development kits (SDKs) often lag behind or become unused due to challenges related to complexity, compatibility, or compromised effectiveness.
"Gen5 represents Appdome's commitment to simplifying and accelerating mobile app security, anti-fraud, anti-malware and other critical protections into the mobile app development process," said Avi Yehuda, founder and co-creator of Appdome. "We're building mobile app defense that developers can use with full support for the mobile frameworks and methods they're using every day."
Key highlights of Appdome's Gen5 mobile defense framework include:
Symbiotic Detection & Defense in Mobile Apps
Gen5 introduces significant enhancements to Threat-Events™, Appdome's framework for in-app threat intelligence and control, thereby elevating the in-app mobile experience and providing improved choices for UX/UI during security incidents. Notably, Threat-Events now offers more comprehensive attack and threat data, along with the option for conditional detection and enforcement policies. This empowers the mobile application to communicate with Appdome, determining when to initiate an inspection or enforce a specific defense mechanism.
Furthermore, in Gen5, Threat-Events incorporates a mobile device heartbeat feature, enabling Appdome to provide the mobile app with information regarding device and/or connection health. This crucial insight helps the mobile app make informed decisions, particularly when initiating critical workflows such as transactions.
Extended Threat Intelligence and Data
In addition, Gen5 expands the capabilities of Threat-Events by enabling the utilization of its comprehensive mobile application attack and threat data beyond the boundaries of the mobile app itself. This means that external systems, including Appdome's ThreatScope™ (a mobile Extended Detection and Response offering), web application firewalls (WAFs) featured in Appdome's new MOBILEBot™ Defense* solution, and other systems, can now receive and leverage the insights provided by Threat-Events. To facilitate this integration, Threat-Events has been equipped with its own Adhesive Network Stack, which incorporates intelligent features for network management and decision-making based on payload analysis. Moreover, it enables the modification or addition of headers and traffic types during runtime.
Better Security with the Newest Mobile Methods and Architectures
Gen5 offers the highest performance mobile app defense on the market. Inside Gen5, mobile brands get:
• Mobile App Defense Designed to Scale. Gen5 takes full advantage of modern mobile architectures, methods, frameworks and processors to maintain the highest performance defense and intelligence actions, without compromising security.
• New Deep Threat Detection enabling a new class of mobile malware protections, including OS remount, unlocked bootloader, custom ROMs and geo-spoofing detection, all without unnecessary permissions.
• New Behavioral Detection Methods to detect advanced threats such as detecting digital manipulation techniques to create fake facial images to bypass facial authentication, accessibility malware defense and more, all without unnecessary permissions.
• New Dynamic Encryption to ensure that every block of data uses the most secure and optimized options available – as well as the ability to change the implementation on the fly based on the data and the encryption capabilities available.
• New Obfuscation techniques and optimizations for Kotlin and metadata, Java decoding and faster resolution of obfuscated classes – all while minimizing file size impact.
• Support for Mac M-series Processors for iPhone and iPad apps available in the Mac App Store.
• Support for VR-headsets including Meta Quest and Apple's Vision Pro VR Headset.
• Built-in crash reporting to simplify troubleshooting of deployed apps.
• WYSIWYG, Fully Modular Architecture to avoid unnecessary file size impacts and support the widest range of devices and operating systems.
• Full Support for all Mobile Languages and Frameworks including all recent updates to Obj-C, C+, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, Cordova and more.
• No-Code, No-SDK, Fully Automated Delivery purpose built for the mobile DevOps pipeline.
"The explosion of innovation in the mobile market means cyber and anti-fraud solutions have to keep up," said Gil Hartman, VP of Engineering at Appdome. "With Gen5, mobile brands and developers can deploy any kind of mobile app defense on the newest architectures, in the newest frameworks and support the most dynamic languages, with much better information and control than anywhere else."
Starting from July 1, 2023, Appdome Gen5 will be accessible to Appdome Dev+ customers. To gain insights into the platform and its enhanced features, kindly visit www.appdome.com.
Furthermore, for detailed information about Appdome MOBILEBot™ Defense, which was recently announced, please refer to the corresponding press release titled "Appdome Unveils its New MOBILEBot™ Defense Solution, Revolutionizing the Way Mobile Brands Defeat Mobile Bots."
With the rise of mobile applications as the dominant force in the consumer landscape, mobile operating system and device manufacturers are continuously pushing the boundaries of mobile device capabilities. The advancements include the evolution of programming languages and frameworks utilized in mobile app development, as well as the introduction of new operating system and device architectures. Integrated devices such as smartwatches, virtual reality headsets, and more provide users with enticing and immersive experiences.
However, these new experiences also introduce engineering complexities in securing mobile applications and create new opportunities for hackers and malicious actors to exploit vulnerabilities. Traditional mobile security and anti-fraud software development kits (SDKs) often lag behind or become unused due to challenges related to complexity, compatibility, or compromised effectiveness.
"Gen5 represents Appdome's commitment to simplifying and accelerating mobile app security, anti-fraud, anti-malware and other critical protections into the mobile app development process," said Avi Yehuda, founder and co-creator of Appdome. "We're building mobile app defense that developers can use with full support for the mobile frameworks and methods they're using every day."
Key highlights of Appdome's Gen5 mobile defense framework include:
Symbiotic Detection & Defense in Mobile Apps
Gen5 introduces significant enhancements to Threat-Events™, Appdome's framework for in-app threat intelligence and control, thereby elevating the in-app mobile experience and providing improved choices for UX/UI during security incidents. Notably, Threat-Events now offers more comprehensive attack and threat data, along with the option for conditional detection and enforcement policies. This empowers the mobile application to communicate with Appdome, determining when to initiate an inspection or enforce a specific defense mechanism.
Furthermore, in Gen5, Threat-Events incorporates a mobile device heartbeat feature, enabling Appdome to provide the mobile app with information regarding device and/or connection health. This crucial insight helps the mobile app make informed decisions, particularly when initiating critical workflows such as transactions.
Extended Threat Intelligence and Data
In addition, Gen5 expands the capabilities of Threat-Events by enabling the utilization of its comprehensive mobile application attack and threat data beyond the boundaries of the mobile app itself. This means that external systems, including Appdome's ThreatScope™ (a mobile Extended Detection and Response offering), web application firewalls (WAFs) featured in Appdome's new MOBILEBot™ Defense* solution, and other systems, can now receive and leverage the insights provided by Threat-Events. To facilitate this integration, Threat-Events has been equipped with its own Adhesive Network Stack, which incorporates intelligent features for network management and decision-making based on payload analysis. Moreover, it enables the modification or addition of headers and traffic types during runtime.
Better Security with the Newest Mobile Methods and Architectures
Gen5 offers the highest performance mobile app defense on the market. Inside Gen5, mobile brands get:
• Mobile App Defense Designed to Scale. Gen5 takes full advantage of modern mobile architectures, methods, frameworks and processors to maintain the highest performance defense and intelligence actions, without compromising security.
• New Deep Threat Detection enabling a new class of mobile malware protections, including OS remount, unlocked bootloader, custom ROMs and geo-spoofing detection, all without unnecessary permissions.
• New Behavioral Detection Methods to detect advanced threats such as detecting digital manipulation techniques to create fake facial images to bypass facial authentication, accessibility malware defense and more, all without unnecessary permissions.
• New Dynamic Encryption to ensure that every block of data uses the most secure and optimized options available – as well as the ability to change the implementation on the fly based on the data and the encryption capabilities available.
• New Obfuscation techniques and optimizations for Kotlin and metadata, Java decoding and faster resolution of obfuscated classes – all while minimizing file size impact.
• Support for Mac M-series Processors for iPhone and iPad apps available in the Mac App Store.
• Support for VR-headsets including Meta Quest and Apple's Vision Pro VR Headset.
• Built-in crash reporting to simplify troubleshooting of deployed apps.
• WYSIWYG, Fully Modular Architecture to avoid unnecessary file size impacts and support the widest range of devices and operating systems.
• Full Support for all Mobile Languages and Frameworks including all recent updates to Obj-C, C+, Java, JS, C#, C++, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native, Unity, Xamarin, Cordova and more.
• No-Code, No-SDK, Fully Automated Delivery purpose built for the mobile DevOps pipeline.
"The explosion of innovation in the mobile market means cyber and anti-fraud solutions have to keep up," said Gil Hartman, VP of Engineering at Appdome. "With Gen5, mobile brands and developers can deploy any kind of mobile app defense on the newest architectures, in the newest frameworks and support the most dynamic languages, with much better information and control than anywhere else."
Starting from July 1, 2023, Appdome Gen5 will be accessible to Appdome Dev+ customers. To gain insights into the platform and its enhanced features, kindly visit www.appdome.com.
Furthermore, for detailed information about Appdome MOBILEBot™ Defense, which was recently announced, please refer to the corresponding press release titled "Appdome Unveils its New MOBILEBot™ Defense Solution, Revolutionizing the Way Mobile Brands Defeat Mobile Bots."
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