Mobile app security for IoT and connected devices
The app is the control panel for every connected device. Secure the interoperability between apps, devices and networks without inherent risk to your products and services.
Exposed surfaces are crippling uninterrupted services
Interoperability between apps and devices is one of the most vulnerable points in any IoT deployment. From the Mirai botnet to common unauthenticated access, attackers take advantage of loopholes and unseen entry points to bring down networks, cripple infrastructure and pillage customer information.
The companion app holds the credentials, protocols and control logic that connect devices to people. SecIron secures that app: assessment finds the weaknesses, hardening makes the binary resistant to tampering, and monitoring shows your team every attempt in the field.
What attackers do to IoT companion apps
Connected-device applications are attacked through the app code, the runtime environment and the device. Understanding these threats is the first step toward secured interoperability.
Reverse engineering
Decompiling the companion app to extract device protocols, pairing secrets, cloud API keys and the logic that controls hardware.
Tampered control apps
Modified builds that issue unauthorised commands, bypass safety limits or redirect device telemetry to an attacker.
Botnets and DDoS
Compromised apps and devices conscripted into botnets that cripple networks and infrastructure, Mirai being the best-known case.
Credential and token theft
Device, cloud and user credentials lifted from the app and reused to take over fleets of devices.
Runtime manipulation
Hooking and instrumentation on rooted or jailbroken phones intercepting commands between the app and the device.
Standards and compliance
NIST IR 8259, GDPR and emerging IoT security regulation that require demonstrable controls across the app, device and cloud.
Connectivity without the possibilities for attack
Adopt new security standards, protocols and policies to enhance interoperability between connected devices and open-source applications. SecIron’s codeless protection identifies, blocks and responds to threats with speed.
Monitor autonomously and obscure discreetly: hardened, obfuscated code keeps protocols and secrets unreadable, while real-time monitoring and predictive insight provide immediate remedies to threats such as botnets and DDoS.
Never let down your customers. Provide complete trust.
The interdependencies between customers and connected systems demand a secured user experience. SecIron’s protection applies at any point of development and roll-out, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery while improving brand trust and loyalty.
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Integrate and manage complex interconnectivity with a dedicated, multi-platform security solution.
Connectivity without the risk
Adopt new security standards, protocols and policies that enhance interoperability between connected devices and applications, with codeless protection that identifies, blocks and responds with speed.
Monitor autonomously and obscure discreetly
Manage complex interconnectivity with a solution that both monitors and protects against threats such as botnets and DDoS, with data-agnostic dashboards for real-time and predictive insight.
Meet governing protocols
Global standards and legislation such as NIST IR 8259 and GDPR shape IoT development and scale. SecIron helps your products and services stay up to standard.
Never let down your customers
Protection applies at any point of your development and roll-out stages, ensuring uninterrupted service delivery while improving brand trust and consumer loyalty.
Protect the SDKs you embed
Hardening covers the SDKs and libraries inside the app as well as your own code, so a partner component does not become the weak link.
Codeless, CI/CD-ready
Protection applied to the compiled build in your pipeline, so hardening ships at your release speed rather than on a separate project timeline.
Three solutions for the whole lifecycle
Assess before release
Automated vulnerability assessment against OWASP MASVS, with remediation guidance for every finding.
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Harden the binary
Multi-layer, codeless hardening: obfuscation, encryption, anti-tampering and RASP, applied to the compiled app.
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Monitor in the field
Real-time detection and response across every session, with an audit-ready incident record.
Explore IronSKY →IoT mobile app security, asked and answered
Why does the companion app matter if the device is secure?
Because the app holds the keys. Pairing secrets, cloud credentials and control protocols sit in the app on a consumer phone you do not manage. An attacker who decompiles it can speak to your devices and your cloud as if they were you.
How does hardening protect device protocols and keys?
Obfuscation and encryption keep protocols, endpoints and secrets unreadable in the binary, while anti-tampering and anti-debugging stop attackers modifying the app or watching it run to extract them.
Can it detect a compromised app issuing commands?
Yes. Runtime protection detects rooted and jailbroken devices, hooking frameworks and emulators, and the response policy you set can block commands or terminate the session before the device is affected.
Does it help with NIST IR 8259 and IoT regulation?
It delivers the application-layer controls and the evidence: hardened and monitored companion apps with a timestamped incident log you can show an assessor.
Does it require changes to our source code?
No. Protection is applied to the compiled APK, AAB or IPA as a step in your build pipeline, with no SDK to integrate and nothing for your developers to rewrite.
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From deployment to security and beyond, SecIron takes you from visibility to action. Bring us your companion app and we will show you what an attacker sees, then what they see once it is protected.
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