Rooted and Jailbroken Device

Instantly Block Rooted and Jailbroken Devices

Protect your apps, users, and data from sophisticated fraud. Detect rooted or jailbroken devices and prevent unauthorized access.

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Challenges

Why Rooted and Jailbroken Devices Are a Security Risk

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Bypass critical security controls
Rooted or jailbroken devices disable built‑in OS protections, letting users tamper with app behavior, security checks, and data storage.
Enable fraud tools and large‑scale automation
These devices can run unauthorized apps, emulators, and scripts that power multi‑account abuse, promo exploitation, and automated attacks.
Increase exposure to malware and data theft
Compromised environments are far more vulnerable to malware and man‑in‑the‑middle attacks, putting customer data and platform integrity at risk.
How FOCAL facilitates this use case

How we Detect Rooted and Jailbroken Devices across the journey

FOCAL detects rooted and jailbroken devices by turning deep device fingerprints into a Universal ID, checking each ID for signs of tampering or emulation, and then using risk scores and policies to decide when to block, step up, or monitor activity in real time.

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Establish persistent ID

  • Generates persistent Universal ID from hardware, software, and network attributes across sessions.
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  • Binds every device to consistent identity for ongoing risk tracking.
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Check Device Integrity

  • Runs root, jailbreak, tampering, emulator checks at key journey steps.
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  • Scans sign-ups, logins, device registration, and high-risk actions.
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Score Risky Environments

  • Factors integrity results into risk scores for Universal IDs.
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  • Tags rooted, jailbroken, emulated, or tool-rich devices.
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Enforce Risk-based Responses

  • Blocks, challenges, or limits access by device risk.
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  • Balances user history, action type, and journey context.
Benefits

How FOCAL helps businesses manage rooted and jailbroken devices

Reduce Compromised Fraud
Block high‑risk logins, payments, and withdrawals coming from rooted, jailbroken, or emulated devices where fraudsters are far more likely to succeed.

Protect Data from tampered devices
Stop attacks that intercept OTPs, scrape screens, or tamper with API calls on modified devices, protecting customer data, balances, and in‑app actions.

Smart Risk Controls
Use device and Behavioral Biometrics and risk scores to decide when to approve or review, instead of rejecting every modified device.

Meet Security Standards
Show auditors clear controls for rooted and jailbroken devices, aligning mobile apps with banking and payments guidance on device integrity and fraud prevention.
Advantages

Why Businesses Choose FOCAL?

FOCAL is built to protect digital platforms from modern fraud across onboarding, in‑app journeys, and payments.

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Experts in digital fraud across KSA and MENA, aligning controls to local customer behavior, attack patterns, and regulations.
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Dedicated 24/7 support from fraud specialists to keep your detection strategies and journeys tuned as threats evolve.
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Unified fraud platform that delivers a single risk view across channels, products, and customer touchpoints.
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Intelligent decisioning that combines multiple risk signals into clear, explainable outcomes for operations and compliance teams.
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Partner services for implementation, rule design, and ongoing optimization, effectively extending your in‑house fraud team. 

Industries

Industries We Protect

FOCAL is built to protect digital platforms from modern fraud across onboarding, in‑app journeys, and payments.

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Banks
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Fintech
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E-commerce & Marketplaces
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Subscription Services
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Travel
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Governmental Agencies
Testimonials

Real Results from Real Teams

Hear how FOCAL is helping compliance teams work faster and reduce risk.

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Fair to say that FOCAL’s sanction screening solution is straightforward, reliable, and always available. Not to mention FOCAL’s professional and friendly account managers and subject-matter experts who guided us through the entire process.

Hashem Sbeitan
Risk & Fraud Director

FOCAL has proven to be an invaluable asset for us, resulting in more than 87% reduction in our onboarding time and enhancing our operational efficiency. This has allowed us to easily onboard new customers and grow confidently.

Ali Alshamrany
Risk & Fraud Director

FOCAL allows us to be compliant quickly. We use FOCAL to automate the screening of our customers with relative ease. FOCAL’s ever-evolving offerings never fail to surprise us, and it gives us confidence in the product’s ability to keep up with rising expectations of both regulators and customers.

Hussein Hejles
Director of Compliance
FAQ’s

Frequently Asked Questions

  • What is a rooted or jailbroken device?

    Rooting (Android) and jailbreaking (iOS) remove default OS restrictions to give the user or apps elevated, admin‑level control over the device. That extra control also gives malware and fraud tools far more power than on a normal device, making sensitive apps much easier to attack.

  • Why are rooted and jailbroken devices risky for banking, fintech, and wallets?

    On compromised devices, malware can hook your app, intercept OTPs, read sensitive data, and tamper with API calls or UI flows. This turns mobile journeys such as login, payments, withdrawals, and card management into high‑value targets for account takeover and payment fraud.

  • Why not just block all rooted or jailbroken devices?

    A blanket block can reduce risk but also locks out some legitimate users who knowingly modified their devices. A risk‑based approach lets you block or heavily restrict only when device risk, user history, and action type together indicate a real threat.

  • How does FOCAL detect rooted and jailbroken devices?

    FOCAL builds a Universal ID for each device using fingerprinting, then runs integrity checks to spot rooting, jailbreaking, tampering, and emulation at key steps in the journey. Those signals feed into risk scores and policies that decide when to block, step up, limit features, or allow with monitoring.

  • What signals are used to flag compromised devices?

    Typical signals include signs of unlocked bootloaders, root/jailbreak binaries and frameworks, suspicious system files, unsafe debug settings, and known tampering tools. FOCAL also looks for emulators, virtual environments, and hooking frameworks that often sit alongside rooted or jailbroken setups in fraud farms

  • At which points in the journey are checks performed?

    Checks should run at onboarding, login, device registration, credential changes, payouts/withdrawals, card and limit changes, and other high‑risk actions. Continuous monitoring during in‑app events helps catch when a device becomes compromised after the initial login.

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