White Paper: Beyond Obfuscation

What You’ll Learn

✅ Why Obfuscation Fails
Understand how static defenses create a false sense of security and why attackers routinely bypass them using runtime analysis and AI tools.

✅ Why APIs Are the True Target
Learn how attackers weaponize your mobile app to breach backend systems via scraping, fraud, credential stuffing, and abuse of business logic.

✅ How AI Is Supercharging Threats
Discover how attackers use LLMs, automated fuzzing, and evasion strategies that render static security obsolete.

✅ What Dynamic Protection Looks Like
Explore the 4 pillars of Zero Trust mobile runtime security:

• RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection): Defend from within the app.
  
  
• App Attestation: Ensure requests come from unmodified, untampered apps.
  
  
• Runtime Secrets Protection: Deliver secrets just-in-time to verified apps only.
  
  
• Dynamic Pinning: Replace fragile static pinning with cloud-verified, tamper-resistant TLS validation.

✅ Defense-in-Depth Blueprint
Balance static and dynamic techniques to achieve true mobile resilience — without introducing performance or maintenance burdens.

Key Takeaways from the eBook

• "Static checks are runtime-blind. Dynamic attackers require dynamic defenses."

• Mobile apps run in untrusted environments — runtime integrity must be verified continuously.
  
  
• Modern attackers use AI and automation to reverse engineer, extract secrets, and bypass obfuscation.
  
  
• APIs are now the primary breach vector — and obfuscation does nothing to stop abuse at the network level.
  
  
• Security must move beyond the device, using cryptographic verification and cloud-side policy enforcement.
  
  

Why Approov?

Approov delivers mobile runtime and API protection trusted by enterprises worldwide.
With Approov, you can:

✅ Block traffic from tampered apps, emulators, and bots
✅ Verify app integrity before any API access is granted
✅ Deliver secrets just-in-time, never at rest in the app
✅ Dynamically pin TLS channels to prevent MitM and certificate misuse