Imperva Client-Side Protection vs. Javascript Obfuscator vs. ProGuard vs. VBScript Comparison Chart

Client-Side Protection provides real-time monitoring of all client-side resources and JavaScript behavior. Gain control over all first and third-party JavaScript code embedded on your website. Actionable insights make it easy to identify risky resources and scripts that should not load on your client side. And if any JavaScript code is compromised, your security team is the first to know. Provides comprehensive inventorying, authorization, dynamic integrity verification, and real-time monitoring, helping streamline regulatory compliance with the new client-side security requirements introduced in PCI DSS 4.0. Protect your website against client-side attacks and streamline regulatory compliance with PCI DSS 4.0. Client-side attacks increase as web applications shift to client-side logic and incorporate more third-party code and resources. These attacks can directly steal sensitive customer data, resulting in breaches and noncompliance with data privacy regulations.

ProGuard: Open Source Optimizer for Java and Kotlin. ProGuard is the most popular optimizer for Java bytecode. ProGuard also provides minimal protection against reverse engineering by obfuscating the names of classes, fields and methods. ProGuard reduces the download and startup time of Android applications and improves their performance on mobile devices. ProGuard obfuscates Java applications and pre-verifies the processed code for Java Micro Edition and for Java 6 and higher. ProGuard optimizes and obfuscates Java applications for cell phones, Blu-ray players, set-top boxes and other constrained devices. ProGuard fully supports Java and Kotlin applications, enabling developers to take full advantage of these languages’ features without sacrificing performance or security. ProGuard is a command-line tool with an optional graphical user interface. ProGuard is fast: It processes small Android applications and entire runtime libraries in seconds.