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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | IT, Cybersecurity |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | David Stewart Richard Taylor Ben Hounsell |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Ted Miracco[1](CEO) Richard Taylor (CTO) Pearce Erensel[2](Vice President of Sales) Lucio Lanza[3] (Board member) |
| Products | SECaaS Dynamic Analysis Tools Profiling Tools Verification Tools |
| Services | API Security Application Security Software Optimization Performance Tuning Performance Prediction Multicore Programming |
Number of employees | 25 (2016) |
| Website | approov |
Approov (formerly CriticalBlue) is a Scottish software company based in Edinburgh that is primarily active in two areas of technology: anti-botnet and automated threat prevention for mobile businesses,[4][failed verification] and software optimization tools and services for Android and Linux platforms.
Approov recently issued findings showing that 92% of the most popular banking and financial services apps contain easy-to-extract secrets such as API keys that could be used in scripts and bots to attack APIs and steal data, devastating consumers and the institutions they trust. The Approov Mobile Threat Lab downloaded, decoded and scanned the top 200 financial services apps in the U.S., U.K., France and Germany from the Google Play Store, investigating a total of 650 unique apps. Ninety two per cent of the apps leaked valuable, exploitable secrets and twenty three per cent of the apps leaked extremely sensitive secrets.[5]
- ^ "Approov Appoints Cybersecurity Executive Ted Miracco CEO (Board member)". www.businesswire.com. 8 December 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "Approov Names Pearce Erensel Vice President of Sales". 21 March 2023.
- ^ "CRITICAL BLUE LIMITED people - Find and update company information - GOV.UK". find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk. Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ "OWASP Automated Threats to Web Applications". OWASP. Retrieved 16 January 2017.
- ^ Zurier, Steve (2 March 2023). "Financial apps tested from Google Play Store leaked sensitive API data under testing conditions". SC Media. Retrieved 9 March 2023.