SDK protection

Promon Shield for SDKs™

Protect the SDKs powering your customers’ apps. 

Keep your distributed SDKs secure, tamper-resistant, and trusted, wherever they run. Prevent reverse engineering and unauthorized modification, strengthen runtime integrity, and make automated and AI-assisted analysis significantly harder. 

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In a nutshell

What is Promon Shield for SDKs™?

Shield for SDKs applies multi-layer protection directly to your compiled SDKs. It safeguards your logic and IP, ensures secure execution even in hostile environments, and prevents your SDK from becoming a supply-chain attack vector.

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  • Protection against reverse engineering, tampering, and unauthorized reuse
  • Runtime protection against hooking, debugging, rooting/jailbreaking, and emulation
  • Integration that fits naturally into your development pipelines
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Why Promon Shield for SDKs: Invisible protection. Trusted everywhere.

Build trust across your partner ecosystem

Your SDK is integrated into dozens of partner apps—each running in environments you don’t control. Shield for SDKs ensures your SDK behaves securely everywhere, reducing downstream exposure and increasing partner confidence.

  • Lower supply-chain risk
  • Stronger partner trust
  • Protection for your brand and reputation
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Protect your IP and competitive advantage

Your SDK logic reflects years of innovation. Shield for SDKs protects it with multi-layer obfuscation and VM-based bytecode protection, making it significantly harder to analyze, clone, or weaponize.

  • Prevent reverse engineering and cloning
  • Keep sensitive logic confidential
  • Preserve long-term competitive advantage
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Stronger runtime integrity everywhere your SDK runs

SDKs often operate in compromised environments. Shield for SDKs detects hooking, debugging, rooting/jailbreaking, emulation, and unauthorized code injection, conditions that enable tampering or fraud.

  • Prevent session hijacking and misuse
  • Protect partner applications from inherited vulnerabilities
  • Maintain stable and predictable SDK behavior
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Security that doesn’t slow development down

Shield for SDKs applies protection after build time: no refactoring, no code changes, and no added friction. Engineering teams keep shipping as usual.

  • Faster releases, less rework
  • Minimal developer involvement 
  • Consistent protection across all SDK versions
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What makes Promon Shield for SDKs™ different

Virtual machine obfuscation for Java bytecode

VM obfuscation moves sensitive Java logic into a secure native virtual machine, removing meaningful execution flow from the class files entirely. Attackers, including those using automated or AI-assisted tools, see only opaque stubs with no readable logic to analyze.

Multi-layer code obfuscation that protects both native and Java SDKs

It reshapes your SDK at the binary and bytecode levels to obscure structure, intent, and execution flow. The different layers of obfuscation (section encryption, block splitting, control-flow abstraction, to name just a few) remove meaningful clues that attackers rely on, making your SDK significantly harder to map, analyze, or modify, even with modern automated tools.

Makes automated and AI-assisted analysis harder

Modern reverse engineering uses automation and AI models to accelerate code understanding. Shield for SDKs introduces structural complexity and misleading execution paths that reduce what these tools can interpret. It slows attackers down and protects critical logic from rapid analysis or cloning.

Dynamic runtime protections built for distributed SDKs

Unlike app-level RASP, Shield for SDKs enforces security inside third-party apps. It detects hooking, debuggers, rooting/jailbreaking, emulation, and code injection. You can expect trusted behavior, even in untrusted environments.

Post-compile integration purpose-built for SDK distribution

Shield for SDKs applies protection after build time, without source-code changes and without requiring your customers (or their developers) to change how they integrate your SDK. This is security that scales with your SDK portfolio, not security that slows it down.
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SDK protection that fits your role

Business & compliance leaders 

Reduce supply-chain risk and protect your IP with SDKs that remain secure wherever they run. Shield for SDKs strengthens governance and helps meet requirements under PSD2/3, DORA, and eIDAS 2.0. 

  • Lower regulatory and operational risk
  • Trusted, tamper-resistant SDKs for partners
  • Evidence supporting audits and compliance reviews 
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Product & engineering teams

Deliver secure SDKs without impacting delivery speed. Shield for SDKs integrates post-compile, ensuring predictable releases and fewer partner issues. 

  • No-code integration 
  • Faster, more reliable release cycles 
  • Improved partner trust and product adoption 
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Security professionals 

Harden every SDK with layered obfuscation and runtime integrity checks. Detect and block tampering attempts early and reduce response overhead. 

  • Real-time tampering alerts 
  • Deep resistance to manual and automated analysis 
  • Lower incident response burden 
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Developers & DevSecOps teams 

Protect every SDK build automatically. Shield for SDKs fits seamlessly into CI/CD workflows and maintains stability across diverse partner environments. 

  • Zero-code setup and smooth integration 
  • Automated protection across releases 
  • Stable performance with minimal maintenance 
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Dive deeper into Promon Shield for SDKs

Review the detailed product brochure to explore how Promon can secure your products and intellectual property, streamline your development processes, and confidently expand into new markets.

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FAQ

Your questions answered

How does Shield for SDKs integrate into existing mobile application workflows, and what is the typical implementation timeline?

Shield for SDKs is designed for seamless integration into existing mobile development workflows. Our comprehensive documentation, code examples, and dedicated support teams ensure implementation is straightforward, often completed within minutes. You can continue using your existing CI/CD pipelines while simply adding Shield for SDKs as an extra layer of security.

What level of visibility and control does this solution provide for ongoing threat monitoring and incident response?

We provide real-time protection against threats such as tampering, debugging, and reverse engineering. Shield for SDKs continuously monitors anomalies and suspicious activities, immediately blocking them to prevent compromise, even if the deployed app or device have been successfully breached.

How does Promon ensure regulatory and compliance requirements are met, particularly for industries handling sensitive data?

Shield for SDKs incorporates robust obfuscation and anti-tampering measures to help safeguard user data and maintain compliance. From financial services to healthcare, our solution aligns with industry-specific standards such as PCI DSS, GDPR, and HIPAA.

What’s the performance impact on the SDK?

Shield for SDKs operates with a minimal footprint, preserving performance and ensuring a smooth user experience. While others might trade off performance and security, Shield for SDKs boasts some of the industry's lowest time-to-interactivity benchmarks while maintaining full security. 

Ready to protect your SDKs at scale?

Connect with a Promon security expert to discuss how we can secure your SDKs, even when deployed on unsecured, untrusted devices.