App X-ray
From exposing hidden tracking practices to identifying security vulnerabilities, App X-ray delivers comprehensive forensic analysis of any iOS app. Our automated analysis pipeline surfaces critical insights about privacy practices, security posture, SDKs, third-party integrations, and implementations.
CISOs and IT executives rely on our app-intelligence dataset to detect vulnerabilities in both internally developed apps and apps sanctioned for employee use.
Customer
Large enterprises and SMBs leverage our platform to obtain deep visibility into the security characteristics of applications.
Challenge
App privacy and security analysis requires niche expertise and dedicated tooling. Extending that workflow and expertise exceeds the bandwidth and capatbilities of most internal teams.
Solution
Our proprietary analysis is capable of surfacing critical vulnerabilities in your company's apps and apps your employees use.
Result
We empower organizations to rapidly detect, prioritize, and resolve vulnerabilities in their own applications, while also making informed decisions about the risks posed by third-party apps used across their environment.
Startup development team uses App X-Ray to secure their own app and accelerate development.
Customer
A lean startup development team building a fitness tracking application needed to ensure their own app met privacy and security standards. With limited resources and no dedicated security team, they required efficient tools to audit their releases for privacy and security vulnerabilities.
Challenge
Early-stage startups face a distinct challenge: they must ship secure, compliant applications without dedicated security resources, while also competing against established players with years of technical refinement and substantially larger engineering teams. Traditional security audits are prohibitively expensive, manual analysis is time-consuming and incomplete. Without these capabilities, startups risk shipping vulnerable code, missing critical features, or making uninformed product decisions. All of these risks can be fatal to user trust and safety, as well as fundraising efforts and economic success.
Solution
Our App X-Ray platform delivers comprehensive security and privacy analysis of the team's application. Before each release, the team analyzes their own build to identify indicators of credential exposure, insecure permissions, privacy vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps. This approach provides quality assurance that extends beyond internal capabilities.
Result
The startup identified and resolved three critical security vulnerabilities in their pre-launch build that would have exposed user health data, avoiding a potentially catastrophic breach and regulatory violation. ated with sophisticated engagement features. The combined security validation and market intelligence capabilities allowed a team of three developers to make informed decisions with the confidence of a much larger organization.
Impact
App X-Ray has become essential infrastructure for the startup's development and release process. The team now runs automated security analysis on every release candidate, catching vulnerabilities before they reach production and providing verifiable security documentation for enterprise sales conversations and investor due diligence. The platform has been key to empowering the team to rapidly iterate without compromising on privacy and security.
NBC's Today Show utilized our app X-ray technology to identify and expose privacy vulnerabilities within the popular Temu shopping application, resulting in national broadcast coverage.
Customer
NBC's Today Show and Nightly News investigative teams have leveraged our privacy data intelligence platform into their investigative journalism workflow for multiple high-profile reports.
Challenge
Uncovering sophisticated privacy vulnerabilities within mobile applications requires specialized technical expertise and proprietary forensic tools that exceed the capabilities of traditional security auditing methods. Even enterprise-grade security teams lack the infrastructure necessary to conduct this level of deep application analysis.
Solution
Our proprietary automated analysis pipeline delivers research teams a comprehensive, fully-analyzed dataset that identifies critical vulnerabilities and potential privacy risks. The platform provides timestamped, forensically-sound data with complete audit trails and exportable documentation suitable for legal proceedings and investigative reporting.
Result
Our analysis formed the evidentiary foundation for an investigative segment that aired nationally on NBC's Today Show, demonstrating the platform's capability to deliver broadcast-quality intelligence on application privacy practices.
Impact
The exceptional quality and forensic rigor of our data and analysis has resulted in repeat engagements with NBC News. Both the Today Show and Nightly News teams have commissioned Disconnect for multiple subsequent investigative reports, each resulting in national broadcast coverage.