Stop API attacks and abuse. Inform your network backend about threats and get app and device attestation in a single solution. Stop API bots, credential stuffing, ATOs, and prevent unauthorized access to mobile APIs with ease. No SDKs. No WAF changes.
Appdome protects mobile APIs by transforming Android & iOS apps into signalling agents for your mobile backend or gateway. With Appdome, each mobile app cryptographically binds app, install, and device fingerprints with up to 400+ threat signals into each API request to stop API abuse and "at-risk" API sessions, unrecognized and malicious devices, account farming, ATOs, and other threats easily.
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In each API request payload, Appdome includes mobile app, device, and session attestation, identity, and threat data. This data is hardened against replay attacks and used to screen and grant API access at the Web Application Firewall or API gateway. Protect any number of APIs, including account, login, biomteric, purchase, and payment APIs, and prevent unauthorized access to your mobile APIs fast.
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Your Web Application Firewall or API Gateway needs better data to stop API attacks and abuse coming from the mobile channel. With Appdome, you gain the best mobile app, device, and session intelligence to validate app authenticity, device identity, and session risk before granting API access. Save money on API Protection by eliminating the need for SDKs and expensive WAF changes today.
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We blocked API abuse, credential stuffing, and fake app traffic in one shot — without changing our infrastructure.”
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Start a 30-Day Free Trial of Appdome and leverage the power of agentic work to protect mobile APIs in your mobile business. With Appdome, you choose from 400+ defenses that protect mobile APIs, secure API tokens, prevent API abuse, stop bot traffic, block API key theft, and more. Then, Appdome's agents code and build your chosen mobile API protection features into your Android or iOS apps in minutes. No work, manual coding, or outdated SDKs. You get continuous mobile API protection with less work, better results, and faster time to value.
With Appdome, you replace manual work with agentic automation for API Protection. On Appdome, you choose the policy, and the platform does the work. With each Android and iOS build, the platform codes, maintains, and updates the API Protection protections for you. It also records each decision and implementation, and monitors protections in your app for your review. Agents are available to validate implementations, detections, or attacks in real time. Review the API Protection protections below and contact us to put them to work in your app.
Protect the backend APIs that support critical workflows in the mobile channel, including onboarding, login, biometrics, purchases, payments, account management, and password recovery. Traditional WAFs and API gateways use tokens to authorize API requests, but have no visibility into whether those requests originate from uncompromised, risk-free, or real mobile apps or devices. Appdome’s mobile API protection stands out because it is built to fingerprint and verify the integrity and identity of the mobile app and device making the request, and to evaluate any session risk before the backend grants access to mobile APIs.
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Fraudsters often rely on fake apps and fake devices to exploit APIs and bypass traditional API security controls. Appdome’s mobile application and device attestation capabilities fingerprint and verify that API requests originate from legitimate mobile apps running in trusted sessions on real mobile devices. By validating the identity of the mobile app, install, and device and passing 400+ runtime threat signals to the mobile backend, Appdome enables API security teams to detect and stop attacks such as credential stuffing, brute-force attacks, account farming, and malicious API requests originating from fake or compromised mobile clients.
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Layer Appdome’s Mobile API Protection on top of your current web security stack to enhance API authorizations and extend the value of your existing WAF and API gateways for the mobile channel. Appdome plugs into industry-standard WAF and API gateway products, adding mobile-specific intelligence, device identity, and attestation, and enabling API security teams to enforce stronger mobile API policies. Reuse existing investments and extend the useful life of existing WAF and API infrastructure. Strengthen protection for mobile APIs without costly platform replacements or architectural changes.
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Bind API sessions to trusted Device IDs by adding IDAnchor™ to the signed API payload, introducing a persistent layer of mobile device identity into every mobile API request. With IDAnchor, each API request carries an OS-independent device identity, a device ID match score, and session risk signals so that the API infrastructure can validate whether the request originates from a known, recognized or trusted device. Enforce device-bound access decisions, blocking access from known malicious, unrecognized, or high-risk devices, even when attackers attempt to mimic legitimate users or real devices.
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Appdome API protection enables mobile brands to rapidly defend against brute force credential stuffing, DDoS and similar attacks generated by bot farms, bot scripts, and via fake, virtual, or emulated devices, and weaponized mobile apps. To do so, mobile businesses can rate limit application connection requests and provide an immutable application fingerprint for the real client mobile app. This fingerprint is passed as part of the TLS handshake and allows any industry-standard Web Application Firewall (WAF) to distinguish the legitimate app from fake or tampered apps and malicious connection requests, stopping bot attacks easily.
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To avoid detection and remain off banned device lists, attackers will spoof applications, installations, devices, mask their location, and use automated programs to perform actions within apps. Legacy API defense has no access to True Device Attributes™ and, beyond a short-lived token or cookie, has no visibility into the authenticity or state of the application, install, or device making the API request. MobileBOT™ Defense has complete visibility into the authenticity or state of the application, install, or device at every API request and can detect location spoofing, deepfakes, etc. to boot.
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Different APIs need different protections to prevent Account Takeover (ATO) attacks. For example, at sign up, a mobile brand might care about automated gestures, keystrokes and clicks because this signals fake users. But at login, the mobile brand might care about deepfakes, spyware, social engineering, AI-generated scams, and other attacks. Appdome API protection allows mobile brands and enterprises to protect APIs, Hosts, and URLs from the threats that matter most in the context of each API and use industry-standard Web Application Firewall infrastructure to enforce each policy.
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Save money by pre-screening API calls to fraud-detection and identity-verification (IDV) systems, filtering out malicious traffic before expensive checks are performed. Many fraud and IDV platforms charge per API request regardless of whether the transaction ultimately passes or fails. By using Appdome’s mobile API protection as a pre-screening layer, mobile brands can evaluate device identity, application integrity, and runtime threat signals before calling downstream fraud and IDV APIs. This ensures that only high-confidence API traffic reaches those systems, improving fraud decision accuracy while reducing unnecessary API calls and costs.
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Safe and At-Risk Session headers deliver dozens of metadata intelligence parameters such as device state, connection risk, and geo spoofing detection. This data—including timestamps, device details, and geo-source info—integrates with any WAF for real-time monitoring and bot activity blocking. Use enhanced threat mapping to specific users and sessions, enabling precise rules and automated enforcement during key events like login, password reset, and transactions. With full visibility into API abuse and attacks, defend with confidence.
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Inside a highly demanding DevOps lifecycle, getting mobile API protection right is extremely hard. Mobile apps are updated 24x to 36x a year, the Android & iOS OS changes frequently, and threats evolve constantly. Appdome uses AI to eliminate this complexity, implement and keep each mobile API protection up to date, and support the mobile engineering team's freedom and release cycles. Full support for the Mobile DevOps tool chain and best practices is a standard part of using Appdome.
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With Appdome, you can meet mobile API protection requirements without sacrificing your engineering freedom, development choices, other features, or the user experience.
Get a price quote and start saving money on mobile anti-bot defense today and defend your brand against all forms of API abuse & API attacks. Appdome’s MobileBOT™ Defense helps brands save $millions of dollars by avoiding unnecessary SDKs, server-side deployments, engineering work, support complexity, network upgrades, code changes and more.
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