Why Unreal Engine Security Matters
Cyrex’ Unreal Engine security services are designed to discover, identify, and secure any vulnerabilities or weakpoints your game might have. Unreal Engine, and its latest version, UE5, is one of the most powerful tools on the market for creating high-quality and immersive games. Its popularity is clear to see as there has been a significant increase in the usage of Unreal Engine. Due to this, we’re seeing an equal rise in the number of hackers. Security vulnerabilities can leave your game open to attacks that can:
- Disrupt gameplay with cheating and leave your honest players frustrated
- Steal player data and incur huge losses both financially and in player confidence
- Damage your reputation and harming your future chances as a developer
With Cyrex Unreal Engine security, our security best practices will significantly reduce these risks and create a safer and more enjoyable experience for your players.
Common Security Threats
Some of the most common security threats we encounter in Unreal Engine security and at large are:
- Business Logic Flaws, where vulnerabilities in the game’s logic can be exploited to perform unintended actions, disrupting the intended experience.
- Access Control Flaws can occur when improperly managed permissions allow unauthorized access to sensitive areas of the game or player data.
- Improper Input Validation: Failing to properly validate user inputs can lead to exploits such as SQL injection, command injection, and other injection attacks.
- Race Conditions occur when the game’s processes are not synchronized, allowing malicious actors to manipulate the timing of events, typically to their advantage.
- Security Misconfigurations can leave your game vulnerable to various attacks, compromising its integrity and player data.
We always deal with the following for every UE security engagement:
- Tampering and validation of client-to-server communication (e.g. RPCs & APIs) benchmarking the server authoritative state of the game.
- Testing of client-side implementations related to the game build.
- Testing of underlying network infrastructure (such as ports, services, and hosts)
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Don't let security vulnerabilities ruin your game's reputation. Our expert team combines cutting-edge technology and proven methodologies to deliver unparalleled security solutions.
Cyrex’ Unreal Engine Security Services
Cyrex offers a range of Unreal Engine security services to help you secure your UE games. These revolve mainly around our comprehensive penetration testing services. Available as either black, grey, or white box (our most popular and recommended service), these simulate real-world attacks to identify and address any vulnerabilities present in your game’s code and network. With this test complete, you will receive a robust report in which the vulnerabilities are identified, rated in severity, and suggested actionable insights are provided.
Our edge in Unreal Engine security is our development and utilisation of our proprietary tool, Rex Protoceptor. With this, we can test any game out of the box that is running on the Unreal Engine network. Protoceptor allows our security engineers to easily benchmark and validate the security of the UE gameplay communication.
Cyrex’ Unreal Engine Security Services
Our thorough penetration testing, available in black box, grey box, or white box formats, simulates real-world attacks to identify and address vulnerabilities in your game’s code and network. After testing, you receive a detailed report highlighting vulnerabilities, their severity, and actionable insights for improvement.
Our proprietary tool, Rex Protoceptor, enhances our Unity Engine security services. This tool allows us to efficiently test any game running on the Unreal Engine network, benchmarking and validating the security of Unreal gameplay communication.
At Cyrex, we employ a unique pair hacking methodology. By working in pairs or groups, our security engineers emulate the techniques used by black hat hacker collectives, ensuring thorough security testing. This collaborative approach helps us identify and verify vulnerabilities that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Don't just listen to us, find out what our clients and partners have to say
“After a year of collaborating with Cyrex on multiple game security assessments, I can say with confidence that their team of security experts has been instrumental in helping us identify and address security concerns in our game software and infrastructure."
Amazon Games
"Working with Cyrex is great. Cyrex is characterized not only by their professionalism but also by their flexibility to adapt to any project. The expertise of Cyrex has assisted us in identifying internal improvement opportunities through penetration and load testing."
PLAION
"When it comes to load and penetration testing, Cyrex are clearly the market leader. They provide me with confidence that our game titles will go to market without major security or scalability issues at launch."
Tencent Games
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