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Make your mobile app pentest-ready

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Failed a pentest?

A failed pentest means delayed releases and regulatory friction

Penetration testing (pentesting) is a mandatory step for mobile apps in regulated industries like finance, telecom and healthcare

  • Avoid surfacing critical vulnerabilities late in the SDLC, which exponentially drives up cost and puts teams under tight deadline pressure.
  • Ensure readiness prior to a pentest and maximize compliance certification chances.
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Resolve critical findings and meet resilience requirements

Use automated mobile app security testing (MAST) to uncover and resolve weaknesses in your code base.

  • Perform automated scans of your application code and third-party dependencies to identify vulnerabilities and insecure configurations.
  • Apply multi-layered code obfuscation and Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) to ensure your mobile app cannot be reverse engineered or tampered with at runtime, directly addressing the resilience requirements of a pentest.
  • Protect your backend APIs from compromised clients with dedicated mobile API security (in the form of app attestation).
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Achieve compliance

Meet PCI-DSS, HIPAA, and PSD2 requirements with documented mobile app testing and multilayered protection before a pentest.

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Avoid business disruption

Enter a pentest with the most critical OWASP security weaknesses already resolved and avoid delayed release schedules.

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Remain cyber-insured

Maintain policy eligibility and lower premiums by proving proactive security testing and remediation capabilities.

Build pentest readiness into your mobile app security program with Guardsquare

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How Guardsquare prepares you

Automate your mobile app security testing on every build with AppSweep

AppSweep runs static and dynamic analysis on Android and iOS builds to identify security issues in line with OWASP MASVS control groups. This helps you remedy problems before your code reaches a pentester.

AppSweep integrates directly into your CI/CD pipelines, with a continuous testing cadence that ensures your team enters a formal pentest with a known security posture. Discover vulnerabilities early and avoid expensive remediation costs of a failed pentest with AppSweep.

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Meet stringent pentest resilience requirements with DexGuard and iXGuard

DexGuard (Android) and iXGuard (iOS) apply compiler-based obfuscation, encryption, and runtime application self-protection (RASP) directly into your app during the build process. Unlike wrapper and hybrid solutions that add a single protective layer, Guardsquare integrates multiple defense mechanisms into the compiled code itself. The result? A hardened mobile app that is significantly harder to reverse engineer or tamper with, and that satisfies resilience expectations for a pentest.

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App attestation provide server-side API protection that blocks bot attacks and unauthorized client access

App attestation verifies the authenticity of the mobile app and the integrity of the device it runs on before allowing API access to your servers. This prevents bad actors from using a compromised client, cloned app, or automated bot to reach protected backend services.

For financial and healthcare applications, this directly addresses compliance requirements around mobile API security.

Guardsquare app attestation capabilities also allow you to define and adjust policies on-the-fly based on your threat model, bypassing the need to deploy a new app release for added protection.

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Why You Need Pentesting and Mobile App Security Testing

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How to Complement Mobile Application Pentesting to Maintain Compliance

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Pentest Readiness TL;DR

Pentest readiness is the practice of integrating continuous mobile app security testing and code hardening into your development pipeline before a formal penetration test.

Instead of discovering vulnerabilities during the pentest, teams identify and fix them early, reducing the attack surface and documenting security practices for compliance.

AppSweep locates code-level vulnerabilities so developers can actively fix them. DexGuard (Android) and iXGuard (iOS) harden the application to withstand reverse engineering and runtime attacks. Together, they allow your team to remediate specific pentest findings while satisfying the mandatory resilience requirements needed to pass your audit.

Requirements vary by industry and region. For example, in financial services, PCI-DSS and PSD2 include provisions for security testing of applications handling payment data or providing financial services. In healthcare, HIPAA and HITECH require safeguards for electronic protected health information.

Depending on your industry, certain regulations explicitly require manual penetration testing by qualified security professionals. Furthermore, automated testing tools identify known vulnerabilities continuously, but only manual testing can uncover complex business-logic flaws and chained exploits.

No. Guardsquare does not offer penetration testing services. Guardsquare provides the tools and workflow that help your team prepare for a pentest, so that when an external pentester evaluates your app, they find a hardened and tested application.

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.