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Advanced mobile game security

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Mobile game security

Game security that defends against cheating and copycats

Mobile apps are the most popular platform for gaming, which makes them a target for reverse engineers and cheaters. Use Guardsquare’s mobile game security solutions to ensure users experience your game the way it was meant to be played.

But without the widespread adoption of security practices like code hardening or threat monitoring, it’s not hard to see why users have trouble entrusting mobile apps with their sensitive financial information. Connect with Guardsquare to gain a team of experts deeply versed in mobile app security best practices and make sure that your app has your users’ full trust.

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Build the best game security experience

With the cheating epidemic on the rise, industry-leading studios on other platforms have invested millions in protecting their games on both the server and client side to ensure players are not being discouraged by cheaters

Guardsquare takes that burden off of your team with a top mobile game security solutions that can be adapted to match your unique game situation, achieving maximum protection while maintaining game performance and functionality.


 

Why mobile game security is key to success

Long-term success in the marketplace takes more than just an expertly crafted mobile game; protecting the integrity of your IP is a foundational element toward ensuring your work receives the credit it deserves.

Protect valuable revenue streams
Build user trust and loyalty
Defend against mobile risks
Stop copycats and fraud

Stop copycats and fraud

Cheating, piracy, and fraud not only divert the fruits of your labor but also ruin the gamer’s experience. Guardsquare’s code hardening and threat monitoring solutions provide reliable gaming app security that ensure your work gets recognized.

 
build user trust and loyalty

Keep it fair, fun and trustworthy

More than three-quarters of players say they’ll stop using a gaming app if they think their competitors are cheating. Guardsquare’s application shielding technologies prevent reverse engineers from learning and exploiting the internal logic of your game.

 

 
Defend against mobile risks

What makes mobile game security essential

Because of the unique threats faced by mobile apps, comprehensive mobile game security is a must. Apps need to be secure against reverse engineering and tampering — if not, threat actors can:
  • Build and distribute tweaks
  • Steal financial credentials
  • Cheat and make it easier for others to cheat
  • Subvert in-app revenue streams
  • Access sensitive user information
  • And more

 
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Prevent cheating to preserve game integrity

Ensure users are accessing your game via a genuine app with app attestation. Uphold game integrity by preventing attackers from using modified or cloned versions of your game to cheat.

 
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Protect game servers and maintain performance

Authenticate applications and the devices they’re running on before they interact with your APIs. Preserve high performance and block bots and malicious apps from stressing your game servers.

 
Discover more about app attestation

“With app attestation, we finally brought security logic to the server side—where it’s much harder to tamper with. Being able to adjust policies from the back-end without pushing an app update is a game changer.”

—Security Operation Manager, AAA Gaming Studio, North America

Gaming application protection for Unity

More than 50 percent of all mobile games relying on the Unity game engine — that’s why we provide application protection for Unity-based mobile games.

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of video game publishers’ in-game revenue is lost to fraudsters each year.

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of online games are negatively impacted by cheaters.
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Protect your mobile game app’s intellectual property

Even if a threat actor decompiles your app, obfuscation techniques render the source code illegible without affecting its functionality. To be as effective as possible, mobile app security solutions apply multiple layers of obfuscation:

  • Secure game APIs

    Ensure only genuine players access your servers with an untampered, verified release of your game. App attestation generates a token to grant or deny access to players before they interact with your server - maintaining your game’s integrity.

  • Strengthen gaming security

    Keep attackers guessing with polymorphic, multi-layer protection of your game that stops reverse engineers in their tracks. Reset the clock on their efforts by automatically changing security measures in your game’s code with each release, rendering previous attempts mute.

  • Harden game infrastructure

    Protect game secrets and logic better than a hidden level. Code hardening techniques like obfuscation and encryption make it nearly impossible to decipher your game’s logic or assets - even at rest. Would-be cheaters are unable to perform static analysis of your game, failing their reverse engineering attempts before they are even big.

 

Protect your mobile gaming app’s integrity

Through multiple layers of code obfuscation, runtime application self-protection (RASP) checks and real-time monitoring, our mobile game app security products ensure players experience your game as intended, counter-threat actors and protect your revenue streams.

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DexGuard for Android
Protect your mobile Android apps and SDKs against reverse engineering and tampering through multiple layers of code hardening and RASP checks. Learn more
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iXGuard for iOS
Use iXGuard to prevent threat actors from accessing your user’s data and learning about your intellectual property through multiple layers of code hardening and RASP checks. Learn more
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ThreatCast for real-time monitoring
Gain visibility into your apps post-publication, track suspicious activity and continuously improve your security implementation. Learn more
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AppSweep for security testing
Application security testing designed for developers, built for mobile. Find and fix security issues in your Android app’s code and dependencies. Learn more

Mobile Game Security FAQ

Yes, developers can monitor and react to threats using real-time threat monitoring for monitoring their games once they have been released. Mobile application threat monitoring is a specialized practice of observing data and signals from a device or app to identify potential security threats. In a mobile application security context, this can include detecting occurrences of tampering, such as failed environment checks, API requests not originating from a trusted source, bot activity, code tampering, such as hooking, or invalid code signing.

Gaming developers can identify and fix vulnerabilities by testing and scanning their apps prior to release using mobile application security testing (MAST). MAST is the processes and tools used to identify security issues in an application with the intent to remediate those issues before they can be exploited by an attacker and have an impact on users or business.

Players can cheat by leveraging a modded app downloaded through a pirate store or using an off-the-shelf game tampering product (e.g., Game Guardian, Cheat Engine.) If this problem is left unaddressed, these cheaters would gain an unfair advantage over legitimate players, frustrating them and undermining the community's health. If left untreated, these cheating issues could kill a game by ruining other players’ experience, causing them to leave the game altogether

Mobile games have become a huge industry, which naturally creates an opportunity for bad actors. Threat actors take advantage of unprotected mobile games for many reasons. From wanting to have the upper hand in a competitive game to illegally making easy money, one thing they all have in common is that they pose direct and indirect harm to your game and business.

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