Runtime Application Self-Protection (RASP) for Mobile Apps
Stop Attacks Where They Actually Happen: Inside Your App
Strengthen your mobile application security with Bugsmirror Defender, a RASP solution that detects and blocks runtime threats, tampering, and security bypass attempts in real time.
Bugsmirror Defender - Comprehensive Mobile App Shielding Solution:
50+ runtime threat detection and mitigation for mobile applications.
Designed with low level languages to optimise performance and user experience.
Server side device and app validation for stronger runtime protection.
Seamless zero-code integration, integrate with no code changes, or development overhead.
Hardware backed attestation to enforce strong app and device integrity.
Securing Globally Trusted Brands
Bugsmirror MASST is trusted by teams across the industry to ship secure, reliable mobile applications.
The Problem with Mobile App Security Today
Most apps rely on:
- Pre-release security testing
- Basic security protections that attackers can bypass in the AI age.
- Limited visibility into real-world attacks
- Client-side checks that can be manipulated when the device or application environment is compromised.
Attackers exploit via:
- Reverse engineering tools.
- Runtime manipulation frameworks (Frida, Magisk).
- Network interception and SSL bypass
For fintech and other business mobile applications, a successful bypass can go beyond a technical vulnerability, it can enable fraud, unauthorized transactions, data exposure, account abuse, and financial loss.
Solution - RASP (Runtime Application Self-Protection)
RASP application security acts as a security protection that detects attacks on applications as they occur. RASP solutions detect any runtime threat like rooted/jailbreak devices, emulators, and app tampering, preventing them in real-time.
Essential for BFSI
With the rapid rise in UPI payment frauds, fraudulent payment activities, and security bypass attacks targeting BFSI apps, implementing RASP security is no longer optional, it’s essential for real-time protection.
Modern RASP Application Security - Bugsmirror Defender
RASP solutions are essential for defending against runtime attacks and advanced threats in the AI advancement age. As attackers using AI to automate and evolve their techniques, businesses need more than just RASP. They need advanced RASP with layered, adaptive runtime security built for modern attacks.
Key Capabilities of Bugsmirror Defender
Runtime Threat Detection & Prevention
Detect and block over 50+ runtime threats, including:
Mobile App Shielding & In-App Protection
Secure Communication Layer
Minimal Performance Impact
Built with optimized runtime checks to ensure:
Consumption-based pricing
Enterprise-Grade Scalability
How Bugsmirror Defender Works?
Easy Integration & CI/CD Ready
Integrate Bugsmirror Defender RASP into your mobile application with a simple, zero-code integration approach. Add runtime protection seamlessly into your existing CI/CD pipeline without major changes to your application workflow.
Continuous Runtime Threat Monitoring
Defender continuously monitors the application runtime, device environment, and application integrity to identify suspicious activities and potential security threats.
Hardware-Backed Device & App Integrity
Use hardware-backed attestation to enforce strong device and application integrity. Defender verifies the integrity of the device and app environment at a deeper level, helping strengthen protection against compromised or manipulated environments.
Anti-Tampering & App Repackaging Protection
Protect your application's code and logic against tampering, repackaging, and unauthorized modification with Bugsmirror Shield. Strengthen the application by making critical code and components harder to extract, analyze, or manipulate.
Server-Side Validation for Secure API Communication
Add an additional layer of protection beyond client-side security controls with server-side validation (Trust API Bind). Validate application and device security signals on the server to reduce the risk of attackers bypassing or manipulating security checks within the client application.
Real-Time Threat Blocking
Detect and immediately block runtime threats such as app tampering, code injection, hooking, Frida, Xposed/LSPosed, debugging, root/jailbreak, emulator-based attacks, and other malicious runtime activities before they can impact the application.
Real-Time Threat Visibility with ThreatLens
Send security events to ThreatLens for centralized mobile app threat visibility, analytics, and intelligence. Monitor threats across applications, users, devices, OS versions, and app versions, while using OTA security updates to adapt supported security configurations remotely over App stores.
Security Dashboard - Runtime threat categories
Understand the Runtime Security Threats that Bugsmirror Defender Detects, Prevents, and Mitigates
Device Integrity
Safeguarding your app by detecting compromised devices and ensuring a secure operating environment
Compliance Across Industry Security Standards
Bugsmirror Defender helps you meet and exceed the expectations set by your industry’s regulatory authorities.
OWASP MASVS
RBI Digital Payment Controls
SEBI CSCRF GUIDELINES
NPCI Guidelines - UPI Framework
Real-World Mobile Security Challenges We Solve
Protecting high-risk mobile applications requires more than standard security testing. Our security solutions help organizations address real-world attack scenarios, compliance requirements, fraud risks, and runtime threats across industries.
Banking & Fintech Apps
Challenge: Mobile banking and fintech applications face security and compliance requirements such as RBI, NPCI, SEBI and OWASP MASVS, along with unauthorized transactions, API manipulation, device compromise, and runtime attacks.
How We Help: We have helped banking and fintech applications address RBI, PCI DSS and CPoC compliance requirements, identify major security gaps, strengthen runtime protection, secure API communication, and improve application and device integrity.
Outcome: Stronger mobile security controls, improved compliance readiness, and better protection against fraud and unauthorized activity.
UPI & Payment Apps
Challenge: UPI and payment applications are facing high risks from fraud, unauthorized transactions, device compromise, API abuse, and attempts to bypass application security controls.
How We Help: We have identified and addressed SIM binding vulnerabilities that could be exploited for fraud and unauthorized transaction risks, tested application and API security, strengthened runtime protection, and implemented controls to detect device manipulation, security bypass attempts, and suspicious application activity.
Outcome: Stronger protection for payment workflows and reduced risk of fraudulent or unauthorized transactions.
Telecom Apps
Challenge: Telecom and recharge applications handle high-volume transactions and can face transaction manipulation, misuse of application logic, unauthorized activity, and revenue-related abuse.
How We Help: For a telecom application, we identified recharge commission manipulation fraud and tested the application for weaknesses that could allow users to exploit transaction and commission logic. We helped strengthen application logic, API security, runtime protection, and transaction controls.
Outcome: Better protection of recharge and commission workflows and reduced risk of revenue leakage.
Hospitality Apps
Challenge: Hospitality applications can face application vulnerabilities, VAPT findings, app tampering, modified application builds, reverse engineering, and runtime exploitation.
How We Help: We addressed security issues identified during VAPT, investigated application bypass and exploitation paths, and helped protect the application against tampering, modified APKs, repackaging, reverse engineering, and runtime manipulation.
Outcome: Strengthened application security and reduced the risk of attackers exploiting modified or compromised app builds.
Works With Your Entire Stack
Bugsmirror Defender supports a wide range of mobile technologies — from native Android and iOS to hybrid and cross-platform frameworks.
Bugsmirror Defender vs Other RASP
| Security Parameters | Bugsmirror Defender | Other RASP |
|---|---|---|
| Server-side RASP validation | ✓ | ✗ |
| Hardware backed attestation | ✓ | ✗ |
| API level app security | ✓ | ✗ |
| Code encryption | ✓ | ✗ |
| CLI integration with no-code level changes | ✓ | ✗ |
| Expert Red teaming Assessment (ThreatLock) | ✓ | ✗ |
| Comprehensive layered protection | ✓ | ✗ |
| Consumption-based pricing | ✓ | ✗ |
| Regulatory Compliance | ✓ | ✗ |
| Platform/framework | Framework agnostic/support every platform | Limited support |
Understand how your app behaves under attack and how Defender blocks threats in real time.
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