Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

New DXComply release enables privacy, GRC and security teams to verify whether native apps honor user consent choices without SDK integration or code changes. Toronto, Canada, September 23, 2026: Feroot Security Inc. today announced expanded native mobile application consent auditing capabilities in DXComply, enabling enterprises to verify whether iOS and Android apps honor users’ consent choices without requiring SDK integration or changes to application code.

Every IT team managing a mobile workforce eventually hits the same fork in the road: do you manage the whole device, or just the apps that matter? That question sits at the heart of the MDM vs. MAM debate. Getting the answer wrong can mean either locking down employee phones so tightly that people revolt, or leaving corporate data exposed on devices you barely control. Mobile Device Management (MDM) and Mobile Application Management (MAM) solve overlapping problems in very different ways.

How KomodoSec’s AigentX Penetration Tester reverse engineered client-side encryption, turned the bypass into reusable Burp tooling, and used that access to validate a real business-logic flaw in a production mobile application. Client-side secrecy failed. Server-side trust became the real vulnerability. THE CHALLENGE A mobile app with TLS, certificate pinning, and a second encryption layer.

AI has lowered the cost of building mobile security tooling to near zero. However, it has not lowered the cost of operating it. Building a scanner is now a weekend project, while sustaining detection accuracy, threat research, real-device infrastructure, and developer trust across years remains a full organizational commitment. That distinction is the entire build-versus-buy question in 2026, and most evaluations get it wrong by measuring the wrong thing.

Android devices are designed for flexibility. Employees can check notifications, adjust connectivity, open settings, and move between apps with a few taps. That flexibility works well for personal use, but it can introduce distractions, security gaps, and usability issues when a device is dedicated to business tasks.

TL;DR: Aikido now pentests Android apps. The same agents that test your web apps and APIs can now work through your APK, log into the app, and reason through it, alongside the backend it talks to, in a single assessment. Findings come back with reproduction steps and are ready for an AutoFix, the same as any other Aikido pentest. Aikido has been running autonomous pentests against web apps and APIs since November 2025.