Importing Mobile Application Vulnerabilities into Your Central Risk Engine
Security teams often treat mobile application security as an isolated task scanning apps for compliance and filing reports. But the real challenge is ensuring these vulnerabilities are addressed as part of your broader risk and remediation program.
That’s where Strobes comes in. Through direct integration with Appknox, Strobes imports mobile application scan results, correlates them with other risk vectors, and operationalizes them using automation, deduplication, and prioritized remediation.
This document outlines how the integration works, what it solves, and why it’s valuable for security, DevOps, and compliance teams.
What Is Appknox?
Appknox is a mobile application security testing platform that provides deep static and dynamic analysis of Android and iOS applications. It detects insecure code patterns, misconfigurations, API abuses, and OWASP
Mobile Top 10 vulnerabilities.
Key capabilities of Appknox include:
- Static analysis (SAST) for mobile codebases
- Dynamic testing (DAST) for runtime and API security
- API security testing aligned with OWASP MASVS
- Easy scanning via APK/IPA uploads or CI/CD integrations
- Detailed remediation guidance with CVSS scores
Appknox delivers rich findings, but the insights often stay siloed in scan reports, making it difficult to operationalize those findings across broader vulnerability workflows.
What Is Strobes?
Strobes is a CTEM (Continuous Threat Exposure Management) platform designed to unify vulnerability detection, prioritization, and remediation across your environment.
It integrates with scanners like Appknox to:
- Consolidate mobile risks into your central vulnerability stack
- Correlate Appknox findings with code, infra, and web risks
- Deduplicate and normalize vulnerability metadata
- Apply exploit intel and business context to prioritize issues
- Automate remediation through workflows, tickets, and SLAs
This turns mobile security from a side process into a structured, repeatable function inside your broader risk lifecycle.
Purpose of Appknox Integration with Strobes
The Appknox Integration with Strobes is built for teams that:
- Conduct regular mobile app scans using Appknox
- Need to consolidate mobile vulnerabilities with other attack vectors
- Want to enforce SLAs and assign owners based on asset or app type
- Are looking to move away from static PDFs and spreadsheets into real-time, actionable dashboards
- Require audit-ready tracking of mobile remediation efforts
Strobes pulls in Appknox findings and brings them into the same risk pipeline used for your infrastructure, application, and code security programs.
How Appknox Integration with Strobes Works
1. Data Ingestion from Appknox
Once integrated, Strobes connects to Appknox via API and imports:
- App metadata: app name, package ID, platform (Android/iOS)
- Vulnerabilities: CWE IDs, issue category, severity (CVSS), remediation text
- Scan context: scan timestamp, result ID, DAST/SAST flag
You can configure syncs to occur on-demand or at regular intervals, depending on your needs.
2. Normalization & Correlation
After ingestion, raw Appknox findings are standardized to align with Strobes’ internal schema. This includes:
- Merging duplicate vulnerabilities across scans
- Mapping common identifiers (e.g., CWE, CVSS) to Strobes risk logic
- Associating findings with relevant mobile assets in your environment
Correlating Appknox findings with any overlapping issues from other scanners (e.g., Burp Suite, Snyk, Veracode)
Redundant findings and scan noise are filtered out, so you’re not re-triaging the same issue repeatedly.
3. Risk Scoring & Prioritization
Strobes applies its contextual risk engine to Appknox findings using:
- Exploitability signals (e.g., known exploits, trending threats)
- Application sensitivity (e.g., public app store vs internal test app)
- Business context (e.g., customer-facing, regulated, or high-revenue asset)
- Exposure level (e.g., API abuse, code-level flaw, or config risk)
Each vulnerability is scored not just on CVSS, but based on what it means inside your environment, helping your team focus only on what matters.
4. Automated Workflow Execution
Once Appknox findings are risk-ranked, Strobes can initiate automated workflows:
- Create tickets in Jira, Azure Boards, or ServiceNow
- Assign issues based on app owner, team, or criticality
- Start SLA countdown timers with custom due dates
- Trigger Slack, Teams, or email notifications
- Validate fixes using Appknox re-scans or manual status updates
No manual exports. No spreadsheets. Every step is auditable.
5. Reporting and Mobile-Specific Dashboards
Mobile vulnerabilities don’t need to sit in a silo anymore. With Appknox Integration with Strobes:
- You get centralized dashboards for mobile risk alongside web, infra, and code
- Vulnerabilities can be filtered by scanner, app name, platform (Android/iOS), severity, or team
- SLA violations, remediation progress, and risk trends are tracked in real time
- Reports can be generated for PCI, ISO, SOC 2, or internal policies, with mobile-specific filters
Key Advantages of Connecting These Tools
1. Reduces Fragmentation Across Security Tools
Appknox data lands in the same workflow engine and dashboards as the rest of your environment.
2. Cuts Manual Processing Workload
Eliminates the need for PDF parsing, manual triage, and Excel-based tracking.
3. Improves Risk Clarity for Mobile Teams
No more treating all issues equally; only the vulnerabilities that pose risk to business-critical mobile apps are prioritized.
4. Aligns DevSecOps Across Web, Infra, and Mobile
Appknox findings follow the same automation playbooks used for other scanners, ensuring consistent remediation experiences.
5. Delivers Traceable, Audit-Ready Actions
Every action, from finding ingestion to fix, is logged, visualized, and reportable, reducing audit overhead.
Summary Table
| Challenge | Solution Delivered |
| Separate mobile workflows | Unified with other security tools in Strobes |
| Appknox results hard to triage | Auto-normalized and deduplicated |
| CVSS-only prioritization | Risk scored with exploit intel and asset context |
| Manual ticketing and handovers | Fully automated issue creation, SLAs, and notifications |
| Disconnected dashboards | Central reporting for mobile vulnerabilities |
Where Appknox Integration with Strobes Fits Best
Appknox Integration with Strobes is suited for:
- Security teams handling Android/iOS app development
- Organizations that run regular Appknox scans
- Mobile-first companies with CI/CD pipelines
- Enterprises needing compliance-ready mobile vulnerability reports
Final Thoughts
The Appknox Integration with Strobes brings structure, visibility, and actionability to mobile application security. If you’re ready to bring mobile scans into the same risk engine used by the rest of your teams:
