Keep your game fair, protect in-app purchases, and maintain brand trust with Promon’s mobile gaming security solutions—all without compromising performance or release speed.
Cheating, hacking, and piracy can ruin your players’ experience and damage your bottom line. They exploit your code, reverse engineer critical assets, and manipulate in-game economies. With Promon’s hybrid security approach—combining compiler-level protection and wrapper-based deployment—you can outsmart attackers, safeguard revenue, and deliver a better experience for honest players.
Stop cheating and fraud: Detect and block aimbots, wallhacks, and memory edits in real time.
Protect premium assets: Secure in-app purchases, digital wallets, and player data against manipulation and theft.
Retain player loyalty: Over 70% of players quit due to cheating; keep them engaged and confident in your brand.
Speed up releases: Post-compile integration streamlines security, letting you focus on core game development.
Customer stories
Customer spotlight: top mobile game developer uses Promon
This mobile gaming development company, known for its innovation and creativity, has produced some of the most popular mobile games in the world. They continue to release new games and expand their reach into new markets.
The challenge: cheating ruined the gameplay experience
The gaming brand needed security for Android DEX and native code to stop lifting attacks that hurt revenue and fairness. Slow tools and performance concerns led them to seek a better solution.
The solution: preventing game code attacks with IP Protection Pro
Promon IP Protection Pro™ was the only solution that securely bound native code to Android system code (Java), preventing attacks while exceeding existing security standards, and meeting the performance requirements for their end user experience.
Mobile game development company protects IP and prevents cheating with no impact on the gameplay experience
Unchecked cheating breaks trust and encourages churn. Promon’s anti-tampering, anti-debugging, and runtime detection features protect your player community.
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Protect in-game economies
Cheaters can farm or duplicate valuable items, destabilizing virtual economies and driving legitimate players away. Our strong code obfuscation and anti-instrumentation tools prevent these exploits at scale.
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Stop unauthorized copies
Keep clones and cracked versions off the market by blocking repackaging attacks, maintaining your brand identity and revenue streams
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Protect monetization
Secure transactions with runtime protection and app and API attestation, preventing bypassing or manipulation that cuts into your monetization model.
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Maintain fair play
A fair environment builds trust. By preventing cheats and exploits, you protect your reputation and keep players coming back.
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Protect future titles
Excessive cheating in one release can stain your overall brand. Promon’s continuous updates help you stay ahead of new exploits for current and upcoming games
Keep app data and assets safe
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Hide your secrets
Keep proprietary game mechanics and digital assets hidden from prying eyes.
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Lock down critical assets
Use layered encryption, white-box cryptography, and obfuscation to lock down critical assets and preserve the element of surprise for your players.
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Streamline development
Promon's post-compile implementation offloads complex security tasks, letting your developers focus on gameplay, not fixing security issues.
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Rely on security experts
Your developers don’t need to become security experts. Promon’s proactive shielding and real-time detection handle the heavy lifting.
Promon IP Protection Pro™
Secure your gaming app’s intellectual property
Secure core game logic and IP with advanced obfuscation and tampering prevention.
Protect proprietary code
Shield vital mechanics, algorithms, and SDKs from reverse engineering, ensuring no one can replicate or undermine your unique mechanics.
Prevent reverse engineering
Limit attackers’ ability to read and copy your code, preserving your competitive edge and safeguarding your intellectual property.
Maintain gameplay integrity
Anti-tampering features detect and block malicious modifications that compromise fairness and performance.
Shield your gaming SDK from reverse engineering, insider threats, and unauthorized access—so you can safely collaborate with studios, partners, or third parties.
Hide critical business logic
Advanced obfuscation and runtime checks lock down your SDK’s code, making it far harder for attackers to replicate or misuse.
Protect the supply chain
Even if your SDK is embedded in unprotected apps, Promon ensures code integrity, safeguarding your IP from tampering and leaks.
Scale with confidence
Rely on consistent, cross-platform protection to expand into new markets without losing control over your IP.
Protect your mobile gaming app against static and dynamic attacks
Protect against reverse engineering
Promon SHIELD® offers security mechanisms such as integrity checking, which prevents modification of an app, and code obfuscation. Obfuscating the app code will make it harder for attackers to perform reverse engineering, gain insight into your game’s app logic, and modify the code.
Fend off real-time hacking
Cheaters deploy various types of methods to gain access to the game’s runtime logic and data. Promon SHIELD® can both detect and block them from achieving an unfair advantage by enabling superpowers, such as making walls appear to be invisible.
Detect app cloning in real-time
There’s a lot of money in mobile gaming, which makes apps an appealing target for hackers. As a mobile gaming studio, you must prevent hackers from cloning your app and stealing revenue. Promon SHIELD® offers the possibility to detect and react when an application has been repackaged.
FAQ
Your questions answered: How Promon protects mobile gaming apps
1. How does obfuscation specifically help mobile gaming apps?
App code obfuscation prevents reverse engineering by transforming a mobile game’s code into a complex, unreadable format while maintaining functionality. This frustrates attackers, making it harder to exploit vulnerabilities, extract assets like API keys or in-game algorithms, and tamper with the game’s mechanics.
For mobile gaming, obfuscation protects proprietary mechanics, prevents cheats, and safeguards intellectual property. By adding layers like control flow obfuscation and asset encryption, it ensures the game’s fairness, security, and integrity.
2. What are the most common attack vectors for mobile games?
The most common attack vectors for mobile gaming apps include:
1. Reverse Engineering
Attackers analyze the app’s code to understand its logic, extract sensitive data (e.g., API keys, encryption keys), and identify vulnerabilities.
2. Tampering and Repackaging
Hackers modify the app to include cheats or malware and redistribute it, compromising the game’s integrity and user trust.
3. Cheating and Runtime Attacks
Cheaters exploit the app’s runtime logic to gain unfair advantages, such as enabling unlimited resources or manipulating gameplay.
4. Insecure APIs
Poorly secured APIs can be exploited to access sensitive data, manipulate in-game transactions, or bypass security mechanisms.
5. Data Theft
Locally stored sensitive assets, like in-game currency or personal information, are targeted through device-level vulnerabilities.
6. Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks
Attackers intercept communication between the app and servers to steal data, alter transactions, or manipulate gameplay.
7. Piracy and Cloning
Cloned versions of games bypass in-app purchases, diverting revenue and harming the game’s reputation.
8. Malware and Compromised Devices
Rooted or jailbroken devices expose games to malicious software, increasing risks of data theft and unauthorized access.
9. Credential Theft
Phishing and weak authentication mechanisms allow attackers to hijack user accounts or in-game assets.
Addressing these attack vectors requires robust security measures like code obfuscation, runtime protections, API security, and encryption.
3. How does Promon SHIELD® prevent app tampering and malware attacks?
Promon SHIELD® uses runtime application self-protection (RASP), code obfuscation, and anti-tampering mechanisms to block unauthorized access and modifications. It detects and prevents malware from compromising app functionality or accessing sensitive information, delivering robust, real-time protection.
4. What insights does Promon Insight™ provide for app security?
Promon Insight™ delivers actionable analytics and real-time monitoring of app security events. It helps security teams detect vulnerabilities and respond to threats quickly, improving overall security posture. This data-driven approach empowers teams to proactively address risks and optimize defenses.
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