Akamai Client-Side Protection vs. F5 Distributed Cloud Client-Side Defense vs. JS-Confuser vs. JavaScript Comparison Chart

Client-Side Protection helps protect against end-user data exfiltration and shield websites from JavaScript threats. It analyzes script behavior in real-time, provides actionable insights in a single dashboard view, and delivers alerts to mitigate harmful script activity. Designed for PCI DSS v4.0, the solution helps businesses meet new script security requirements and safeguards against client-side attacks. Inject simple scripts into each monitored page without meaningfully impacting performance. Monitor and assess script activity from the browser while machine learning techniques analyze the risk of unauthorized action. Get real-time alerts, with detailed information about mitigation, if an active threat or attack is found. Immediately restrict malicious scripts from accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data on protected pages with one click. Defend your site from client-side threats. Ease compliance with PCI DSS v4.0. Strengthen your web page integrity.

JS-Confuser is a powerful, open source JavaScript obfuscation tool that transforms your source code into a highly unreadable form, deterring reverse engineering, tampering, and unauthorized reuse while preserving full functionality. It offers multiple obfuscation techniques, including variable renaming, control flow flattening, string concealing, and function obfuscation, along with locks such as domain-based or date-based execution constraints and integrity checks to detect runtime modifications. Designed for flexibility, it provides obfuscation presets, ranging from 10 to 21+ transformation layers, and also allows fully customizable configurations to suit performance and protection needs. The tool operates entirely in the browser for fast, private obfuscation workflows, and includes advanced tooling features such as a playground for interactive experimentation, customizable options via JavaScript, integrated code prettification, and debugging support.