Mobile app security for utilities and critical infrastructure
Utility customers now pay bills, read meters and report outages from an app that sits on critical infrastructure. Secure the endpoint applications your customers and field teams rely on, without slowing your digital roadmap.
Personalised customer experiences, on a critical surface
Utility companies use mobile apps to deliver better, more personalised experiences than email, SMS and direct mail ever could. Cyber threat actors aggressively target these platforms as a way to exploit vulnerabilities in the digital solutions and applications behind them, and as attacks grow more sophisticated, the ICT environment and the data used to serve customers must be secured.
SecIron secures the endpoint application: assessment finds the weaknesses, hardening makes the binary resistant to tampering and reverse engineering, and monitoring shows your team every attempt in the field.
What attackers do to utility apps
Utility applications are attacked through the app code, the runtime environment and the device. Understanding these threats is the first step toward a safe, dependable connected experience.
Reverse engineering
Decompiling customer and field-service apps to find the endpoints, keys and logic that reach billing, metering and operational systems.
Cloned and tampered apps
Repackaged builds that impersonate your utility to harvest account and payment data, or modify field tools to issue unauthorised instructions.
Ransomware and malware
Endpoint applications used as the entry point for malware and ransomware campaigns against OT and IT environments.
DDoS and service disruption
Compromised apps and devices used to overwhelm customer-facing services during peak demand or outages.
Account and payment fraud
Stolen sessions and credentials used to divert payments, change account details or access consumption data.
Regulatory and critical infrastructure obligations
National critical infrastructure directives and data protection law that require demonstrable controls and an incident record.
Thwart attackers and deliver greater trust
The most advanced mobile application security creates a protective wall around your endpoint applications through a hassle-free, codeless process, allowing your business to grow with increased customer trust.
Runtime application self-protection (RASP), coupled with static and dynamic defences and real-time threat monitoring, prevents malware, DDoS, ransomware and reverse engineering through endpoint applications across evolving OT and IT environments.
Deliver confidence and trust in your service
Protecting data from security threats is critical to any business, and effective real-time monitoring and evaluation of application security provides a level of confidence to your brand that customers can feel.
Request a consultationBenefits for utility providers
Boost the security and authenticity of your customer and field applications, and safeguard the user experience.
Thwart attackers and deliver greater trust
A protective wall around your endpoint applications through a hassle-free, codeless process, allowing your business to grow with increased customer trust.
Boost utility application security and authenticity
Integrated, automated protection across evolving OT and IT environments, with RASP, static and dynamic defences and real-time threat monitoring.
Safeguard the user experience
Attackers exploit endpoint vulnerabilities, but it is users who stand to lose the most. Create a defensive barrier to entry that protects their private information.
Deliver confidence and trust in your service
Real-time monitoring and evaluation of application security that boosts the value your organisation provides and the confidence customers place in your brand.
Sovereign deployment
On-premise deployment means your binary and threat telemetry never leave your perimeter, which critical infrastructure operators often require.
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 →Utility mobile app security, asked and answered
Why do utility apps need mobile app hardening?
Because the customer app and the field-service app both reach systems that sit on critical infrastructure, and both run on phones you do not manage. Hardening protects the application itself at runtime, closing the routes attackers use regardless of the device.
How does it protect field-service and metering apps?
Obfuscation and encryption keep endpoints, keys and operational logic unreadable, anti-tampering stops a modified tool issuing unauthorised instructions, and runtime protection detects rooted devices and hooking frameworks on technicians’ phones.
Can it be deployed on-premise?
Yes. SecIron runs as SaaS or fully on-premise, with role-based access and full log and report generation either way, so builds and threat telemetry never leave your perimeter.
Does it help with critical infrastructure and data protection obligations?
It delivers the application-layer controls and the evidence: hardened and monitored apps with a timestamped incident log you can show a regulator or auditor.
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 or vendors to rewrite.
Resources for utility security teams
BlogSafeguarding against evolving malware threatsRead the article
BlogProtecting mobile apps from malware and cyber threatsRead the article
BlogData protection: an ultimate guideRead the article
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