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Approov, a leader in mobile app attestation and API security, today announced the appointment of Rex S. Jackson as independent Chairman of its Board of Directors. Mr. Jackson succeeds Dr. Lucio Lanza, who has been recognized for his years of leadership and who will continue to serve on the Board as a non-executive director.

Attackers are no longer writing bots by hand. Agentic AI systems can now probe mobile APIs, mimic legitimate app behavior, and adapt to defenses in real time - at a scale no human-operated botnet could match. Today Approov, the leader in mobile app and API security, announced Approov 2026 3.6, a major global attestation platform upgrade built to meet that threat head-on, combining expanded global infrastructure with the deep, real-time visibility enterprise security teams need to detect and shut down AI-driven attacks as they happen.

Approov, a leading provider of mobile app and API security solutions, today announced significant strategic expansion of its global network infrastructure, positioning its unique cloud-based mobile app and device attestation platform as the essential defense against rapidly evolving AI-based API threats. This expansion includes the deployment of Cloudflare's Argo Smart Routing technology across its multi-cloud network, which is supported by Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).

Approov, the leader in mobile API security, today announced the launch of Approov 3.5, a significant platform update designed to protect businesses and their customers from a new wave of mobile threats. The release directly addresses security challenges posed by regulations like the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the rise of sophisticated AI-driven attacks.

Approov, a leader in mobile application and API security, and PreEmptive, a pioneering force in application security, today joined forces to provide comprehensive mobile application protection as the EU Digital Markets Act takes effect. The joint solution addresses the main challenges for mobile app security: protecting intellectual property and app shielding, as well as runtime threats to apps and the need for app attestation.

Approov, the leader in mobile security, today revealed new data indicating that watches, wearables and new devices are now the weakest link in the mobile app threat landscape.

Approov, the end-to-end mobile security provider, released a report today showing that 95 percent of the most popular African banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets, which could be used in scripts and bots to attack application programming interfaces (APIs) and steal data, devastating consumers and the institutions they trust.

Approov, the end-to-end mobile app security provider, today launched a comprehensive global partner program dedicated to ensuring qualified business, reseller and technology leaders have access to its proven mobile security and comprehensive support, building on the large a number of existing Approov technology partnerships.

Approov, the end-to-end mobile app security provider, today added Genopets, developer of a free-to-play mobile pet care game, to its growing user base while stopping cheaters from spoiling the fun.

Approov, the end-to-end mobile app security provider, today named Pearce Erensel vice president of sales, reporting to Approov’s CEO Ted Miracco.

Approov, the end-to-end mobile security provider, today issued findings showing that 92% of the most popular banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets such as API keys, which could be used in scripts and bots to attack APIs and steal data, devastating consumers and the institutions they trust.

Approov, creator of advanced mobile app and API shielding security solutions, today named Ted Miracco CEO, an executive with high-technology experience spanning 30 years in cybersecurity, defense electronics, RF/microwave circuit design, semiconductors and electronic design automation (EDA).

Approov, creators of advanced mobile app and API shielding solutions, today issued, “The State of Mobile App Security in 2022,” a new report from Osterman Research. The report codifies the increasing dependence of businesses upon their mobile apps, and reveals a jarring disconnect between the strategic importance of apps versus the level of focus and resources applied to protect organizational apps against runtime threats.

Approov, creators of advanced mobile app and API shielding solutions, today introduced Approov Runtime Secrets Protection, enabling comprehensive protection of the API credentials and secrets that are typically targeted by threat actors for malicious exploitation.

Approov, creators of advanced mobile threat protection solutions, today announced that it has been honored as winner of the 2021 CyberSecured Award for Best Mobile API Threat Protection by 1105 Media’s Security Today.

Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection solutions, today issued new research findings in, “Playing with FHIR - Hacking and Securing FHIR APIs,” by cybersecurity researcher Alissa Knight on the security vulnerabilities of the fast healthcare interoperability resources (FHIR) APIs studied and the mobile apps which access them. The research reveals that healthcare FHIR APIs, even when designed in accordance with FHIR guidelines, are nonetheless subject to abuse by automated scripts and compromised apps.

Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection solutions, today introduced the Mobile Certificate Pinning Generator, a free tool to help mobile-first companies make Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attacks targeting mobile app APIs a thing of the past. It enables organizations to simplify what has long been a complex and little understood recommendation: certificate public key pinning. Approov is also offering a free webinar at 1 pm EDT, October 7, 2021, entitled: Let’s Make MitM Attacks a Thing of the Past.

Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection solutions, today introduced the Approov Alliance and Integration Program to ensure that the critical elements of comprehensive mobile app API protection are rigorously tested and work together harmoniously and seamlessly to avoid both data leakage and exposure of the app’s core logic.

Approov, creators of advanced API threat protection solutions, today introduced Release 2.7 of the Approov API Shielding platform which lets companies of all sizes adopt leading-edge, affordable API cybersecurity protections for mobile-based applications. Approov 2.7 incorporates feedback from customers across several sectors, and is an ideal solution for both large hyperconnected organizations and those smaller and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and enterprises that have either been priced out of application API solutions or were daunted by slow and complex deployment with high overhead.