App Revenue Protection
13 billion
Trusted to secure 2.5 billion+ apps worldwide, 13+ billion mobile transactions every month
$2.5 trillion
Protecting organizations with over $2.5 trillion in combined market capitalization.
Protect your mobile-first revenue
The global app economy now exceeds 250 billion downloads annually. With 2.5 billion mobile gamers and 30% of streamed content viewed on mobile devices, it is clear we have entered a mobile-first digital economy.
With so much potential, why are new launches failing, entitlements and in-app purchases being bypassed, digital content leaking, and loyalty programs coming up short?
Because attackers are rewriting your monetization rules.
Traditional approaches to application security won’t deter sophisticated hackers from:
- Repackaging, modding, cloning your apps shortly after release
- Using a variety of tools and techniques such as hooking frameworks, overlays, and code injection to reverse engineer and tamper with your apps at rest and at runtime
- Stealing your intellectual property and bypassing business logic by compromising your SDKs and infiltrating your partner ecosystems
- Disrupting in-game economies and fair play by cheating
- Employing rooted and jailbroken devices, bots, and emulators to distribute malware
Though the business outcomes are the same ones you seek to offset:
- Skewed metrics and misplaced ads
- Account Takeover (ATO), business logic abuse, fraud
- Copyright infringement
- Lost customer trust
- Damaged brand
Attackers are disrupting retention, relationships, respect, and most importantly, revenue.
App Threat Report: The state of game security
Promon tested 357 of the world’s highest revenue-generating mobile games for Android, which represent more than $10.5 Billion in annual revenue.
81% of apps tested offered no defense against repackaging or hooking, only 15.7% deployed some form of repackaging detection, and only 1 app could detect the presence of a rooted device when we used all appropriate hiding methods.
App Threat Report: The State of Code Obfuscation Against AI
Promon's Security Research Team ran a rigorous empirical test, pitting ten of the world's leading AI models against thousands of obfuscated code samples across two processor architectures.
The results show that obfuscation still works, but not equally everywhere, and not in the way most threat models assume.
If your organization ships software that needs to stay protected in hostile environments, this report will sharpen how you think about defense.
The importance of App Revenue Protection
- Protect in-app purchases and subscription revenue
- Preserve reputation, brand loyalty, and intellectual property
- Prevent account takeover and fraud due to abuse and in-app bypasses
- Ensure trust across customers, partners, and marketplaces
- Maximize the ROI of new launches, campaigns, and promotions
Why it matters:
- 81% of apps representing over $10 billion in annual revenue offer no defense against repackaging or hooking.1
- Large language models (LLMs) like GPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek can assist attackers with reverse engineering software to breach data and commit fraud.2
- 75% of major dating apps received D or F grades for cybersecurity.3
The stakes are high, but your existing security stack is blind to attackers that pull revenue from your pocketbook.
Bad actors target the weakest link. If your perimeter is fortified, your cloud is secure, and your web applications are protected, they will abuse the business logic within your mobile apps—which is where your customers are engaging with your digital business.
Are you seeing these symptoms? Then you are missing the malicious activity:
- Subscription conversion stays flat while premium feature adoption climbs
- Average revenue per user declines yet usage is the same
- Ad impressions drop on a subset of devices without explanation
- Promotions and referrals show higher redemption with lower retention
- Virtual goods and rewards are consumed faster than paid value shows
- Support cases and reviews mention cheating, unfairness, lack of value in paid tiers
Promon's App Revenue Protection Promise
You build mobile experiences. We protect the revenue behind them.
Unlike perimeter or backend controls, Promon defends the mobile app itself, where attackers target your business logic, protecting your revenue streams and strengthening customer trust.
Promon’s in-app protection delivers built-in, always-on security directly inside your apps without requiring code changes or disrupting development pipelines. This frictionless approach helps you maximize monetization and ROI while maintaining trust across customers, partners, and marketplaces.
Promon enables organizations to:
- Prevent app modding, cloning, tampering, and IP theft
- Protect apps at runtime from tampering, malware, and device compromise in
- Safeguard business logic, entitlements, and in-app purchases to prevent bypass
- Promote trust across partner ecosystems and collaboration across security, fraud, and product teams.
Promon’s post-compile integration means deployment takes minutes — not months.
Most organizations can implement Promon in a single development sprint, so your teams can ship faster without adding security complexity.
With always-on security, you are ready to adapt to evolving threats, including AI-assisted attacks.
Shield Your Revenue
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Runtime protection
Protect apps and verify environmental integrity.
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Safeguarded IP
Maintain competitive advantage and ensure fair play.
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Seamless integration
Deploy post-compile without changing code.
Protect Revenue Generating Apps
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Promon Shield for Mobile™
Deploy fast and quickly monetize
Secure seamlessly and push your potential
Embed always-on runtime protection
Mitigate bypass, cheats, repackaging -
Promon Data Protect™
Encrypt sensitive data at rest
Safeguard your secrets
Prevent unauthorized access on disk and in memory
Maintain integrity throughout the application lifecycle -
Promon Code Protect™
Protect intellectual property
Preserve your competitive edge
Mitigate reverse engineering and tampering
Deter AI-enhanced deobfuscation attempts -
Promon Shield for SDKs™
Safeguard intellectual property
Protect your IP wherever it goes
Protect ecosystem integrations
Deploy licensing and entitlement with confidence -
Promon Verify™
Protect backend business logic from abuse
Ensure continuous trust
Ensure authorized access to critical services
Mitigate bots, emulators, and spoofing -
Promon Insight for App Visibility™
Validate runtime protection and device integrity
Go beyond protection to proof
Establish a baseline for your real-world environment
Track inventory, trends, and security postures -
Promon Insight for App Security™
Identify emerging threats
Get actionable intelligence
Integrate into your SOC
Turn investigation into action
Mobile game development company protects IP and prevents cheating
A game developer needed to safeguard app integrity, revenue, and brand reputation for mobile games with over 250 million monthly active users with no impact on the gameplay experience.
By selecting Promon’s solutions for gaming, cheating in the mobile game has been substantially reduced, creating a better gaming experience for players and protecting the revenue for this European mobile gaming company.
See how a top mobile game developer protects revenue and fair play >
International media company secure content and prevent piracy
A leading international broadcasting corporation needed to protect digital assets from reverse engineering and unauthorized distribution.
Promon provided a robust application shielding solution that protected the company’s mobile applications from reverse engineering and copying, helping ensure compliance and securing revenue streams.
Learn how an international media company secures content and revenue streams >
Protecting revenue is critical across industries
Streaming
Protect your IP and deliver a seamless, secure experience
Safeguard copyrighted content, defend customer privacy, and maintain trust across your platform.
Key capabilities:
- Deter reverse engineering and tampering
- Protect customer accounts from takeover
- Detect promotion and subscription abuse early
Gaming
Protect fair play and in-game economies
Reduce cheating and maximize retention and trust across player communities.
Key capabilities:
- Prevent repackaging, modding, and cloning
- Stop runtime abuse from hooking frameworks
- Prevent bypass of in-app purchases
Dating
Earn trust by making every connection safe and secure
Protect users and platform integrity to maximize conversion, retention, and growth.
Key capabilities:
- Stop fake profiles, bots, account farming, and AI scams
- Ensure app, device, and environmental integrity
- Prevent bypass of subscription and premium features
Delivery
Maximize profitability by stopping abuse
Protect margins and prevent fraud by maintaining platform integrity at scale.
Key capabilities:
- Stop coupon, ad, voucher, and promo abuse
- Protect sensitive data at rest and at runtime
- Prevent tampering of in-app payment logic
Quick answers about protecting app revenue with Promon
How does Promon help protect revenue across industries?
Our solutions safeguard intellectual property and ensure runtime integrity so you can launch and monetize at scale.
Why do I need another security tool in my stack?
As more business logic and AI models move into apps and APIs, attackers will increase their focus on bypassing in-app controls, reverse engineering backend communication, and committing fraud.
How quickly can we achieve protection with Promon?
Our post-compile approach means you can achieve robust and resilient security without extensive development cycles or code changes.
Can Promon detect malicious activity before it results in fraud?
Yes, Promon Insight™ visualizes real-world exposure and predictive indicators of attack using trusted threat telemetry.
How does Promon align to security best practices?
Our solutions align to security frameworks such as OWASP, including controls to mitigate risks such as reverse engineering and tampering, insecure authentication and authorization, and inadequate privacy. Learn more in our OWASP MASVS Guide.
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