Case Study: Robotemi reduces API attacks and strengthens robot security with Approov

Robotemi reduces API attacks with Approov after a 2-year platform rollout

Robotemi, a company that develops personal robots, faced a significant security challenge in protecting the API endpoints its mobile app used to communicate with its robots. The team needed to prevent unauthorized access and was concerned about attackers using modified apps or scripts to generate valid API requests, especially as they expanded into key markets like mainland China. After attempting a home-grown anti-tamper solution, they turned to the vendor Approov for its mobile app protection.

Approov provided a solution that verified only genuine, unmodified instances of the Robotemi app could access their APIs. The teams collaborated to architect a system that successfully proxied traffic through Robotemi's infrastructure in China to the Approov cloud service. As a result, Robotemi noticed a reduction in attacks against their service. They reported that the solution works effectively and puts them in a more secure state.

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