Protect your IP and trade secrets from theft

IP protection

Prevent mobile app IP theft and reverse engineering

Protect your mobile app's unique IP. Prevent attackers from extracting proprietary algorithms and business logic, which can lead to serious harm:

  • Code decompilation: Bad actors use freely available tools to decompile your binary and extract closely guarded algorithms, trade secrets, and credentials.
  • App cloning and piracy: Attackers can modify your code and distribute fake, malicious versions of your app through phishing campaigns or unofficial app stores.
  • Revenue and brand damage: Unprotected IP directly leads to bypassed subscriptions, pirated premium features, and severely eroded customer trust.
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Protect proprietary code from extraction

Unprotected mobile apps leave your competitive advantage exposed to threat actors equipped to download, analyze, and reverse engineer your work.

  • App Cloning: Competitors can steal your future product features, roadmaps, and core business logic to build copycat applications
  • Algorithm Exposure: Reverse engineering can reveal your closely guarded pricing formulas, recommendation engines, and fraud detection methods
  • AI/ML Theft: Extensively trained machine learning models can be extracted and redeployed against you in competing versions of your app.
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Stop static analysis

Make decompiled code unreadable so attackers cannot clone proprietary AI/ML models or core app mechanics.

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Block runtime tampering

Stop function hooking and runtime instrumentation that target your fraud detection rules and algorithms during execution.

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Prevent secrets leakage

Ensure your API keys, endpoints, and credentials are not exposed in the code, and prevent unauthorized access to backend services.

Defend your IP against static analysis

Defend against reverse engineering attacks that lead to malicious clones, tampering, or theft of proprietary mobile app functions. Apply in-depth, multilayered protections to your code with techniques such as string encryption, name obfuscation, and control flow obfuscation.

  • Keep IP, code logic and trade secrets hidden from scrutiny.
  • Protect API keys, endpoints and config files from inspection.
  • Secure proprietary algorithms, ML models, and embedded secrets from extraction.
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Protect your mobile app against runtime inspection

Dynamic protections activate at runtime to detect hostile environments and block extraction attempts in real-time. Automatically block rooted or jailbroken devices and act against anti-debugging tools or tampering attempts. Runtime checks also protect your IP and sensitive logic against memory scraping and hooking attacks.

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Many mobile applications contain proprietary information such as original code, unique algorithms, cryptographic keys, API credentials, and business logic.

Static obfuscation makes code harder to read and reverse engineer, while runtime protection actively detects and responds to tampering attempts during execution.

Guardsquare’s solutions minimize app bloat and optimize performance.

DexGuard (Android) and iXGuard (iOS) combine multiple protection layers to make reverse engineering economically infeasible.

Advanced techniques include obscuring code structure, encrypting critical assets, and detecting attempts to extract or analyze proprietary logic.

Guardsquare’s reinforced layers of protection work together to increase the effort required for repackaging, including code hardening, anti-tampering mechanisms, and integrity verification that detect modified or redistributed builds.

Most customers have their initial protected build within a day, thanks to Guardsquare's guided workflow that tailors protection to your specific app instead of applying a generic template.