What features make Appknox ideal for mobile application security testing?
Appknox delivers comprehensive mobile security through automated vulnerability assessment (SAST + DAST), API security testing, SBOM visibility, and continuous app store monitoring—all within one platform. Real-time dashboards and CI/CD integrations ensure fast, accurate, and scalable testing across Android and iOS.
Appknox offers end-to-end mobile app security, built for modern DevSecOps.
What platforms and frameworks does Appknox support?
Appknox supports Android, iOS, and cross-platform frameworks like Flutter, React Native, Xamarin, and Ionic. Whether you’re developing native or hybrid apps, Appknox detects vulnerabilities at both code and runtime layers.
Does Appknox offer integration capabilities with existing development and security tools?
At Appknox, we strive to integrate with existing development and security tools to streamline workflows and enhance the overall security posture of applications. Integration capabilities include CLI integration, plugins for popular development environments, and compatibility with common CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment) pipelines.
Are there any specific technical requirements for using Appknox's testing platform?
Worrying about intricate prerequisites is unnecessary – the process is straightforward. You just need to upload your mobile app's binary onto our platform, and from there, you can initiate the scanning procedure.
How does Appknox ensure user-friendly interfaces and easy navigation within its product?
Experience a seamless interface with our user-friendly dashboard. Easily identify initial steps and navigate them effortlessly, whether you're a seasoned user or a newcomer. Our comprehensive onboarding process ensures you maximize the potential of our dashboard, empowering your team with the skills to make the most of its capabilities.
What kind of dashboards and reporting options are available with Appknox?
Appknox provides unified, audit-ready dashboards that surface real-time vulnerability trends, severity breakdowns, compliance status, and remediation progress. Reports can be exported for developers, security leaders, or compliance teams and are fully traceable for internal and external audits.
Read more: Appknox CISO Dashboard: Get Visibility into Your Mobile AppSec Data.
How does Appknox integrate with my existing CI/CD tools?
Appknox integrates with CI/CD tools in minutes. Appknox seamlessly integrates with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, CircleCI, and Bitrise, enabling automated scans to run post-build. You can set severity thresholds to decide which findings should block releases.
Appknox helps you keep security inside your workflow, not outside your sprint.
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Can Appknox integrate with tools like Jira, Jenkins, and GitHub?
Yes. Appknox integrates seamlessly with Jira, Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps. These integrations automate scan triggers, streamline ticket creation, and ensure vulnerabilities flow directly into existing developer workflows, without slowing the pipeline.
With Appknox, security becomes part of your workflow, not a roadblock.
Explore more: Appknox CI/CD Integrations.
How can Appknox's Vulnerability Assessment (VA) help identify security weaknesses in mobile apps?
Vulnerability Assessment involves employing specific test cases to pinpoint established vulnerabilities within mobile applications. These vulnerabilities are then ranked according to severity, relying on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) scores. The assessment scans for CVEs listed by security communities such as OWASP. It is an invaluable method for identifying potential security threats, using solely your mobile app's binary.
How does Appknox’s automated vulnerability assessment (VA) work?
Appknox’s automated Vulnerability Assessment (VA) is a purpose-built mobile application security engine designed to find and prioritize real security risks across your app portfolio, with <1% false positives. It combines multiple scanning methods in a unified workflow:
- Binary-based static analysis (SAST): Appknox examines your compiled Android or iOS binary to detect coding errors, insecure configurations, risky data-handling patterns, and insecure third-party components before the app runs.
- Real-device dynamic analysis (DAST): The assessment runs the application on real devices to observe runtime behavior, detect logic flaws, authentication weaknesses, session issues, and other runtime risks that static analysis alone may miss.
- API security testing: Appknox evaluates backend APIs for misconfigurations, broken authentication, insecure data transmission, and logic vulnerabilities, treating APIs as a first-class part of the assessment.
- Automated workflows: Scans are triggered automatically through CI/CD or manual upload and provide real-time feedback to developers, keeping security aligned with fast release cycles.
- Actionable reporting: The platform generates exportable reports with CVSS-based risk ratings, clear evidence, and developer-friendly remediation guidance, enabling teams to prioritize what matters most.
This layered approach provides a comprehensive, full-stack mobile security assessment that identifies issues early, validates them in real execution contexts, and integrates seamlessly into your development and DevSecOps processes.
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How does Appknox perform static and dynamic security analysis for mobile apps?
Appknox combines static application security testing (SAST) and dynamic application security testing (DAST) to uncover vulnerabilities across the mobile app lifecycle. SAST analyzes Android and iOS binaries to identify insecure code patterns, misconfigurations, and hardcoded secrets, while DAST observes app behavior at runtime on real devices to detect issues that only surface during execution.
💡Pro tip: Run deep, mobile-first security analysis, both before and during runtime.
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What are the advantages of API Testing with Appknox, and how is it done?
The API Testing secures the vulnerable endpoints of your mobile app - and analyzes web servers, databases, and any other components interacting with your server.
The process begins with the upload of your mobile app's binary file. Subsequently, Appknox performs a static analysis to assess potential vulnerabilities. Once the static analysis is complete, the platform performs dynamic analysis and an API scan. During this phase, various vulnerabilities are detected within your app's APIs. Finally, Appknox compiles a detailed report that outlines these vulnerabilities, highlights security gaps, and provides actionable recommendations for resolving these issues, ensuring the enhanced security of your mobile app.
What steps are involved in performing Penetration Testing (PT) with Appknox?
Penetration testing is a fairly complex procedure that requires hands-on experience and can be performed by certified professionals only.
While the actual process may vary from organization to organization, a typical penetration test involves the following steps: Planning and Scope Information Collection, Vulnerability Scanning Exploitation Post-Exploitation, and Detailed Reporting Mitigation.
Additionally, it's crucial to mention that performing Vulnerability Assessment (VA) on the application is an integral part of this process. VA helps identify potential loopholes that could be exploited for business logic attacks, further enhancing the overall security assessment.
What is the SBOM feature, and how does it improve app security?
The Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) feature provides complete visibility into your app’s third-party libraries and SDKs. It flags outdated dependencies and known CVEs, enabling fast, targeted patching.
You can’t fix what you can’t see. Appknox’s SBOM makes every dependency visible.
Explore: Appknox Binary-based SBOM
Can Appknox detect SDK-level data leaks and privacy violations in mobile apps?
Yes. Appknox analyzes embedded third-party SDKs to identify unsafe data collection practices, excessive permissions, and unauthorized data transmission. This gives teams visibility into SDK-level privacy risks that often bypass traditional security testing.
Explore more: Appknox Privacy Shield.
Does Appknox help enforce secure software supply chain standards, such as SBOM, to ensure compliance?
Yes. Appknox’s SBOM (Software Bill of Materials) feature provides a complete inventory of your app’s third-party SDKs and libraries. It highlights outdated or vulnerable components, helping you maintain supply chain compliance with NIST and ISO standards.
💡Pro tip: Ensure transparency in your software supply chain to stay on top of compliance mandates at all times.
Learn more: The Role of SBOM in Software Supply Chain Security.
How does Appknox’s SBOM feature help manage third-party SDK risks?
The SBOM feature automatically lists out all SDKs and open-source dependencies within your mobile binary. It flags outdated or vulnerable components with their vulnerability status and corresponding risk scores, keeping your supply chain secure.
More on this: SBOM 101: A Complete Guide to Software Bill of Materials
Can Appknox detect cloned or tampered apps in real time?
Yes, Appknox can effortlessly detect cloned or tampered apps on the App Store and Play Store in real time.
With Storeknox, Appknox’s continuous app-store monitoring feature, you’ll be alerted the moment a cloned or repackaged app appears in any major marketplace. It helps you act fast to protect users and your brand reputation.
Stay one step ahead of impersonators, 24/7.
What is Storeknox? How can it help secure your mobile apps?
Your brand’s digital perimeter deserves 24/7 surveillance. Storeknox helps you achieve that.
Storeknox is Appknox’s real-time app-store monitoring engine. It tracks your app across official and third-party stores, detecting clones, impersonations, and malware-injected versions, ensuring your brand and users stay protected.
Explore: Storeknox | Continuous app store monitoring
How often does Appknox Store Monitoring (Storeknox) run, and how does it protect brands?
Appknox’s Store Monitoring scans app stores periodically to identify fake, tampered, or cloned versions of your app. You receive alerts in real-time, helping you take down impersonations before they damage user trust and your brand’s reputation.
Explore: Importance of Continuous App Store Monitoring | Storeknox
What is Appknox Privacy Shield? How does it help?
Appknox Privacy Shield audits your app’s permissions and data usage patterns to detect privacy violations early. It automatically finds hidden trackers in your apps, spots exposed PII and high-risk permissions, maps your privacy footprint, and gives out a clear list of fixes.
With Appknox, you can protect user trust by designing for privacy from day one.
Read more: From Unknowns to Known Risks: Mapping Your App’s Privacy Surface.
What kind of remediation support does Appknox provide?
Appknox provides developer-ready remediation guidance for every vulnerability, including clear explanations, reproducible evidence, and step-by-step fix recommendations. Each finding is mapped to global compliance standards (OWASP MASVS, PCI-DSS, GDPR, NIST, etc.) and prioritized by severity, helping teams focus on what matters most.
Appknox also supports rescanning and CI/CD verification to confirm that fixes are effective and audit-ready.
With Appknox, you get structured, actionable remediation that shortens MTTR and strengthens compliance.
How do I view API scan results in the Appknox dashboard?
API scan results are available directly in the Appknox dashboard once a scan completes. The dashboard provides real-time visibility into detected API vulnerabilities, severity levels, affected endpoints, and remediation status. Teams can filter results by risk, API, environment, or release, and export reports for audits or remediation workflows.
Appknox’s single dashboard provides instant visibility into API security risks without manual correlation.
How long does a typical Appknox scan take?
While the overall scan time depends on the app’s make and complexity, Appknox completes a comprehensive VA in less than 90 minutes with results being visible in your dashboard immediately after completion.
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