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Mobile app scraping doesn’t look like traditional bot traffic and most platforms don’t realize they’re vulnerable.

This self-assessment helps you evaluate real exposure across app authenticity, API trust, automation, and AI-driven data extraction.

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Most Teams Don’t Know They’re Exposed Until It’s Too Late

Scraping has moved beyond websites. Today, attackers bypass mobile apps entirely by reproducing API calls and extracting structured data directly from backend systems. Because this traffic often looks legitimate, it frequently goes undetected.

Many organizations believe they are protected because they use authentication, API keys, or rate limiting—yet these controls verify users, not apps.

This assessment exists to help teams objectively evaluate their mobile app and API exposure before data, revenue, or trust is lost.

A Practical Framework Built for Teams Responsible for Real Platforms

This self-assessment walks you through the most common (and most misunderstood) exposure points in modern mobile platforms, including:

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App authenticity and trust boundaries

Reverse engineering and API replay risk

Automation and bot abuse resistance

Token, session, and credential reuse

Embedded secrets and key leakage

AI-driven data harvesting risk

Monitoring, detection, and response readiness

What You Will Learn

Teams who complete this assessment have the chance to uncover if:
 
Their backend cannot distinguish real apps from automated clients
Valid tokens can be replayed outside the app
High-value APIs are protected only by authentication
Scraping traffic would be indistinguishable from normal usage
AI-driven extraction would go unnoticed
 
These findings often change how teams prioritize mobile API security.

What Happen Next

From Assessment to Action

The self-assessment does not prescribe a single solution, but it helps clarify where trust breaks down and what types of controls are required to prevent scraping and abuse at the API boundary.

For teams who discover significant exposure, the next step is evaluating preventative controls such as app attestation and zero-trust mobile API access.

Get a clear, practical view of your exposure to scraping, automation, and API abuse before someone else exploits it.

 

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