Protecting consequential digital interactions · MENA

Make the mobile channel the trust anchor.

SAFE PLACE is a Dubai-based mobile-channel security consultancy and Licel technology reseller serving MENA. We help organisations whose applications authenticate identity, move value, unlock assets or control sensitive operations establish an enforceable chain of trust across the customer, application, device, runtime and backend.

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Application self-defenceTrusted runtime intelligenceBackend-enforceable policy

Mobile-channel protection

Secure the complete interaction—not the isolated component.

Platform security, application hardening, attestation and fraud analytics each provide useful evidence. None is a trust architecture on its own. We make the evidence independent, correlated and enforceable at the moment a sensitive interaction occurs.

Architect

Define what the organisation must prove about the customer, final application, device, runtime, API request and intended operation—including the weakest environment the backend is still prepared to trust.

Protect

Apply post-build, on-premises protection to the artifact that reaches the user: harden code and resources, establish RASP, isolate sensitive logic and bind mobile API access to a genuine application instance.

Verify

Validate provenance, freshness, application and runtime integrity, device continuity, cryptographic identity and transaction context against realistic attack paths—not idealised platform assumptions.

Operate

Feed trusted mobile-native signals into security and fraud systems, then apply proportionate policy: allow, step up, restrict, investigate, suspend or block—with evidence for every decision.

Client-side defence · Real-time enforcement

Make the application a protected sensor—and an enforcement point.

A compromised interaction cannot be repaired by server-side evidence after the event. The application must be able to assess its own integrity, inspect the environment in which it is running and impose a proportionate response before hostile control becomes an authorised action.

Distributed anti-malwareAndroid · Runtime

Antivirus-like protection, purpose-built for the interaction.

DexProtector and Alice can embed malware and Potentially Harmful App detection inside the final application, including signature, heuristic and package-based checks, with intelligence specifically designed to detect malware that abuses Android Accessibility Services. Combined with UI protection, RASP and device attestation, the app can identify overlays, screen capture, keylogging, remote-access tooling and other forms of client-side interference.

01 · DetectMalware, PHAs, risky packages, overlays, screen capture, RATs and hostile runtime conditions.

02 · CorrelateApplication authenticity, version, device integrity, runtime state, user, session and transaction context.

03 · EnforceReport, warn, step up, restrict, suspend, stop execution, protect local secrets or reject at the backend.

< 10 mintarget response window

From newly observed strain to protected estate.

Under an agreed rapid-response operating model, a verified indicator can be added to the over-the-air threat database and mapped to a pre-approved enforcement policy without waiting for an app-store release. Protected instances can then detect the new strain and report, warn, restrict, suspend or stop the interaction. For high-volume digital services, compressing that exposure window can materially reduce the period during which transaction flows worth billions of dirhams remain at risk.

Target timing depends on indicator quality, technical validation, configuration, connectivity and the agreed service scope; it is not presented as a universal product SLA.

UAE regulatory context

A sector-specific mandate. A universal architectural lesson.

CBUAE Notice No. CBUAE/FCMCP/2025/3057 establishes a client-side control expectation for Licensed Financial Institutions: detect malware, screen-sharing, remote-access activity and active calls within the mobile banking application, and suspend the session when indicators show that the customer environment is compromised.

Accessibility Services deserve particular attention. In the wrong hands, these permissions can expose screen content, automate input, approve actions and sustain overlay or remote-control attacks. UAE banks now block access from affected Android devices until the unsafe application or risky permission is removed.

Beyond banking Any application that authenticates identity, moves value, controls a device, captures sensitive data or authorises a consequential act should be able to assess the client environment in real time—and enforce a response.

The Notice is addressed to LFIs. Its application to a particular institution, product or control design remains a matter for that institution's legal, risk and technical assessment.

Licel · Maturity, scale, continuous validation

Mobile-channel security, matured in production.

Licel's authority in mobile security was earned before the subject became a board-level concern. It helped pioneer mobile application protection and has spent 15 years evolving that discipline into a coherent mobile-channel security philosophy: protect the complete interaction between the customer, application, device, runtime and backend—not merely the code or the operating system.

SAFE PLACE regards Licel as the most mature end-to-end mobile-channel security technology stack available. That assessment rests on evidence rather than rhetoric: sustained engineering, deployment at exceptional scale, repeated independent evaluation, and a portfolio that unifies integrity, intelligence, isolation and backend-enforceable trust.

Through licensing, architecture, integration, validation and operational support, we bring that capability to organisations across MENA. The result is not a bundle of disconnected controls, but a continuously defensible chain of trust for any consequential digital interaction.

Talk to us about Licel

15 yearsFront-line engineeringFrom pioneering mobile application protection to helping create and define the modern mobile-channel security philosophy.

12B+Protected installation instancesMore than 12 billion app installation instances run DexProtector protection worldwide—production scale at which stability becomes a security property in its own right.

6 yearsEMVCo SBMP SPT · Android + iOSDexProtector was the first software protection tool approved across both platforms and has now been independently evaluated and approved for six consecutive years.

Only TEEEMVCo SBMP TEE · Android + iOSThe Licel vTEE is currently the only TEE of any kind—physical or virtual—to hold this approval, with evaluation and approval across both major mobile platforms.

EMVCo evaluation confirms sufficient conformance with the applicable security guidelines at the date of evaluation; it does not constitute an endorsement or product warranty by EMVCo.

Regional by design

Dubai-based. Industry-agnostic. Built for high-trust digital business.

We work with organisations whose mobile applications carry material operational, financial or identity risk—from banking, payments and digital identity to mobility, connected products, healthcare, commerce and public services. The common requirement is not an industry label; it is the need to trust a consequential interaction occurring on a device the organisation does not control.

Complete interactionProtect the path from human intent to backend decision, not a collection of isolated components.

Evidence before trustCorrelate application, device, runtime, identity and operation-specific evidence before acting.

Operational velocityTurn verified threat intelligence into proportionate protection while the interaction is still in progress.

Protect the interaction

Protect the interaction before it becomes an incident.

Bring us a critical flow—onboarding, authentication, payment, device enrolment, transaction signing, digital key, sensitive data capture or API access. We will define what must be trusted, select the right Licel controls and establish a practical path from architecture to production and live response.

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Dubai Digital Park · Dubai, UAE