How to Use Threat-EKG with Appdome's Mobile EDR

What is Threat-EKG?

Threat-EKG™ offers real-time monitoring and protection for applications on wearable and mobile devices, ensuring secure communications even without a traditional network connection. By utilizing threat events, Threat-EKG™ provides regular updates on the device’s health status to support secure operations.

How Does Threat-EKG Protect Mobile Enterprise Apps & Wearable Devices

Threat-EKG™ establishes a comprehensive security framework for both wearable and mobile devices, ensuring their communication with mobile apps and servers remains secure by enforcing mobile threat detection and defense data across the entire enterprise infrastructure, including the mobile app, server, IAM, UEM, or WAF.

Here’s how it functions:

Payload Generation: Threat-EKG sends payloads containing critical information about the wearable or mobile device’s status, including risk session status, safe session status, payload timestamp, nonce, Appdome Signed Payload, Appdome ThreatID™, and Appdome AppID™.

Secure Transmission: These payloads are transmitted securely across various mediums, ensuring secure communication between wearables and mobile devices, even in the absence of traditional network connections.

Threat Events: Threat-EKG facilitates communication to the server through Threat-Events sent from Appdome to the mobile app, updating the mobile or wearable device health status and alerting the mobile app to potential threats.
For further information on Threat Events, please refer to the knowledge base article:  Threat-Events™, In-App Threat Intelligence in Mobile Apps

Data Encryption: In secure sessions, Threat-EKG encrypts the payloads, ensuring that sensitive information, such as the app’s health data, cannot be intercepted by attackers. This protects both the wearable and the connected mobile app from unauthorized access.

Prerequisites for Using Threat-EKG:

To use Appdome’s mobile app security build system to Enforce Threat-EKG, you’ll need:

• Appdome account (create a free Appdome account here)
• A license for Threat-EKG
• Mobile App (.ipa for iOS, or .apk or .aab for Android)
• Signing Credentials (see Signing Secure Android apps and Signing Secure iOS apps)