Industries
MOBILITY
Pay-Per-Use Models are Growing
The transportation mobility market is shifting consumers from traditional vehicle ownership to a pay-per-use model. Mobile apps are the primary touchpoint for accessing these services and providing new business opportunities. Failure to properly secure APIs leads to system breaches, unauthorized access to private data, and ultimately loss of customers.
Own Customer Experience
In a competitive mobility marketplace, customers flock to services offering convenience and availability. Approov authenticates your apps and secures your APIs with no impact on customer experience. Threats blocked include:
Data Scraping
Competitors scrape and exploit your vehicle location and usage information to gain an advantage.
Approov Solution
Ensures that your data is accessible by your mobile apps only. Tampered apps and scraper bots are blocked.
Unauthorized Aggregation
Customers may give their credentials to all-in-one services offering convenience booking.
Approov Solution
Forces these services to refer customers to your app so you retain control of your customer journey.
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Protect Your Critical Resources
Car sharing is designed for consumers who want to rent a vehicle for a short period of time, pay only for usage, and access a car at any hour. Approov Mobile App Protection is 'key' to this model:
Digital Key Extraction
Eavesdroppers or malware running on consumer devices try to intercept key authorization during the communication process used to unlock and start vehicles.
Approov Solution
Blocks malicious exfiltration attempts, but allows consumers running a clean, authentic app to access their vehicles even in the absence of internet connectivity.
Denial or Delay of Service
Attackers can flood your network with valid looking API requests that will tie up your services.
Approov Solution
Authenticates apps ensuring that legitimate API requests come only from your mobile app. Malicious traffic is easily dropped before reaching your backend services.
Grow Safely Within the Mobility Ecosystem
The transportation market is transforming, the ecosystem is maturing, and your partnerships are evolving through shared-use models, autonomous vehicles, door-to-door multi-modal journeys — making API security all the more critical. Threats include:
Unlicensed Apps
When ready, expand the number of legitimate apps that can access your mobility services by licensing third-party apps while continuing to block all others.
Approov Solution
Authenticates licensed apps and drops all other traffic.
API Security Flaws
Any weaknesses in your APIs will be discovered and exploited by hackers.
Approov Solution
Blocks API probing and improper usage by securing communications between your app and backend service in addition to locking down your mobility APIs to authorized apps only.
