Application security

Application shielding and RASP

Obfuscation and anti-tampering for mobile and desktop apps, and runtime self-protection instrumented into running applications.

4 vendors · alphabetical, never ranked

• AppdomeAppdome sells a platform that builds and maintains security, anti-fraud and bot-defense protections into Android and iOS applications, along with a mobile API protection product called MobileBOT Defense that verifies app, device and session identity.Ownership not established · primary category
• Contrast SecurityContrast Security sells a runtime application security platform that instruments applications from within to observe method calls, requests, and attack paths as they run in production, aiming to report only verified, exploitable vulnerabilities with a fix attached and to block known-CVE exploitation in real time.Ownership not established · primary category
• GuardsquareGuardsquare sells mobile application protection software, built on the open-source ProGuard project, that adds obfuscation and anti-tampering layers to Android apps through DexGuard and to iOS apps through iXGuard.Privately held · primary category
• PromonPromon sells runtime application protection software that embeds anti-tamper, anti-repackaging and code protection into compiled mobile, desktop and web applications, plus tools to turn that runtime telemetry into security analytics.Ownership not established · primary category

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