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Ostorlab App Vetting helps enterprise security teams approve, reject, monitor, or escalate third-party mobile applications with confidence. Analyze Android APKs and iOS IPAs using automated static analysis, dynamic testing, sandbox execution, malware detection, privacy telemetry inspection, and continuous monitoring across every release. Assess third-party mobile apps before enterprise approval or MDM allowlisting
Detect vulnerabilities, malware indicators, privacy risks, suspicious telemetry, and trust signals
Convert technical findings into a weighted risk score across security, privacy, malware, trust, and maintainability
Automatically re-assess approved apps when new versions are released
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Approve Third-Party Mobile Apps Faster, With Evidence
Enterprise teams rely on mobile applications for communication, productivity, field operations, finance, healthcare, logistics, and customer engagement. But every third-party app introduced into the environment can expose the organization to security, privacy, compliance, and operational risk. Ostorlab App Vetting gives security teams a repeatable way to evaluate each application before approval and continuously monitor it after deployment.
Third-Party Mobile Apps Introduce Enterprise Risk
Employees, contractors, and business units frequently request mobile apps for legitimate operational needs. Before those apps are approved for corporate devices, security teams need to understand whether they contain exploitable vulnerabilities, insecure communications, risky SDKs, malware indicators, invasive permissions, or suspicious runtime behavior.
Mobile App Risk Data Is Fragmented Across Too Many Sources
App vetting often requires teams to manually combine outputs from vulnerability scanners, malware tools, privacy reviews, reputation checks, mobile threat defense systems, and compliance processes. This slows down approvals and makes decisions inconsistent across applications.
- Vulnerability and misconfiguration findings
- Privacy, tracker, SDK, and telemetry analysis
- Malware, spyware, and suspicious behavior indicators
- Publisher reputation and distribution channel trust signals
Manual App Reviews Do Not Scale
Security teams are expected to review more apps, faster, without sacrificing accuracy. Manual vetting creates approval bottlenecks, inconsistent decisions, and limited visibility after an app is approved. Ostorlab automates the assessment pipeline so teams can spend less time collecting evidence and more time making informed risk decisions.
How Ostorlab App Vetting Works
Ostorlab performs deep package-level analysis of Android APKs and iOS IPAs. Each application is assessed using static analysis, dynamic testing, sandbox execution, telemetry inspection, malware detection, and trust evaluation to produce a decision-ready risk profile.
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Static Analysis
Ostorlab examines application binaries, manifests, configuration files, embedded libraries, permissions, certificates, and code structures without executing the app. This identifies vulnerabilities, hardcoded secrets, insecure cryptography, misconfigurations, excessive permissions, outdated dependencies, and insecure implementation patterns.
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Dynamic Testing
The application runs in a controlled test environment where Ostorlab observes runtime behavior, including system API usage, network activity, authentication flows, file access, permission usage, and data handling patterns that may not be visible through static inspection alone.
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Sandbox Execution
Apps execute inside a safe, instrumented sandbox designed to reveal how they behave at runtime. Ostorlab traces outbound connections, external services, SDK activity, data flows, and system-level interactions to help security teams understand what the app actually does after installation.
SCORING SYSTEM
Decision-Ready Mobile App Risk Scoring
Ostorlab converts technical findings into a weighted risk score that helps security teams compare applications consistently and make faster approval decisions. Each app is evaluated across five dimensions: malware, security, privacy, trust, and maintainability.
Malware — 35%
Detection of trojans, spyware, malicious behaviors, suspicious payloads, dangerous permissions, command-and-control indicators, and active threat signals.
Security — 25%
Assessment of vulnerabilities, insecure cryptography, hardcoded secrets, unsafe storage, insecure communications, misconfigurations, and OWASP Mobile Top 10 risk categories.
Privacy — 20%
Identification of trackers, advertising SDKs, analytics frameworks, sensitive data flows, unencrypted cleartext communications, and regulatory privacy concerns.
Trust — 10%
Evaluation of publisher reputation, signing certificates, distribution channel integrity, application provenance, update behavior, and external trust signals.
Maintainability — 10%
Review of framework age, outdated libraries, code health indicators, dependency risk, and long-term operational exposure.
Zero Trust Telemetry Assessment
Mobile applications often include analytics SDKs, advertising frameworks, crash reporting tools, attribution libraries, and third-party tracking components that communicate with external services.
Before approving an app for enterprise use, security teams need to understand what data the app collects, where it sends that data, which external services it contacts, and whether those behaviors create privacy, compliance, or security risk.
Ostorlab App Vetting analyzes telemetry and network communications at the application level to show how data moves between the app, third-party SDKs, external APIs, analytics platforms, advertising networks, and other remote services.
Workflows
From Mobile App Scan to Approval Decision
Standardize mobile app reviews, collaborate on findings, and maintain continuous risk visibility across every application update.
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Scan the Application
Upload an Android APK or iOS IPA, or trigger a scan through API-based integrations. Ostorlab performs static analysis, dynamic testing, sandbox execution, malware checks, telemetry inspection, and trust evaluation.
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Review the Risk Profile
Security teams receive a weighted risk score, prioritized findings, privacy and telemetry evidence, malware indicators, compliance mappings, and the risk drivers that most affect the approval decision.
Seamless Integrations with Your Tech Stack
Don't let security become a bottleneck. Ostorlab integrates directly with the tools your development and security teams already use, ensuring that vulnerability management is automated, traceable, and fast.
Jira
Jenkins
GitHub
GitLab
Bitbucket
SAML
Azure DevOps
Microsoft AppCenter
CircleCI
GoCD
TeamCity
Okta
Google Workspace
OneLogin
Azure Active Directory
Slack
Vanta
ServiceNow
Bitrise
Harness
Why Teams Choose Us
Support, Scalability, Transparency
Accompanied at Every Step
Hands-on guidance and support from onboarding to outcome to ensure seamless usage of features evolved through customer feedback.
Free Unlimited Invites
Collaborate without constraints by adding as many profiles as needed per application, enabling teams to work together seamlessly with no user number restrictions and no additional costs.
Continuous Monitoring
Apps previously added to Ostorlab are automatically rescanned whenever updates are pushed. No need to manually trigger scans, ensuring continuous security validation with minimal effort.
No Hidden Fees
Simple, transparent pricing with no hidden costs. Know what you pay for, and back it with a full refund guarantee if unsatisfied.
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Very efficient team, the support engineers are very good and knowledgeable. The product is always evolving and they take customer input very seriously.
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The platform helped us evaluate our internal mobile applications easily and efficiently. The onboarding was smooth and the UI dynamic automation is great.
The product meets our needs perfectly and is easy to set up and use. The team is very reactive.
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We selected Ostorlab as our sole partner in providing mobile applications and web vulnerability scans. We have a very good partnership.
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Easy to use and getting better with new updates, they are also quick to help and very efficient.
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I had a very excellent experience with Ostorlab as a MAST solution.
Very efficient team, the support engineers are very good and knowledgeable. The product is always evolving and they take customer input very seriously.
A reliable product with unique features and a personalized approach to products.
The platform helped us evaluate our internal mobile applications easily and efficiently. The onboarding was smooth and the UI dynamic automation is great.
The product meets our needs perfectly and is easy to set up and use. The team is very reactive.
Very professional and technical. Five star. Excellent delivery.
We selected Ostorlab as our sole partner in providing mobile applications and web vulnerability scans. We have a very good partnership.
Their customer service is top notch and their product is constantly improving.
Easy to use and getting better with new updates, they are also quick to help and very efficient.
Great product, with amazing customer service, very useful, accurate, and straightforward to use.
Prompt support and personalized features highlighted.
I had a very excellent experience with Ostorlab as a MAST solution.
Very efficient team, the support engineers are very good and knowledgeable. The product is always evolving and they take customer input very seriously.
A reliable product with unique features and a personalized approach to products.
The platform helped us evaluate our internal mobile applications easily and efficiently. The onboarding was smooth and the UI dynamic automation is great.
The product meets our needs perfectly and is easy to set up and use. The team is very reactive.
Very professional and technical. Five star. Excellent delivery.
We selected Ostorlab as our sole partner in providing mobile applications and web vulnerability scans. We have a very good partnership.
Their customer service is top notch and their product is constantly improving.
Easy to use and getting better with new updates, they are also quick to help and very efficient.
Great product, with amazing customer service, very useful, accurate, and straightforward to use.
Prompt support and personalized features highlighted.
I had a very excellent experience with Ostorlab as a MAST solution.
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