Imperva Client-Side Protection vs. JavaScript vs. Source Defense 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.

Source Defense is a mission critical element of web security designed to protect data at the point of input. The Source Defense Platform provides a simple and effective solution for data security and data privacy compliance – addressing threats and risks originating from the increased use of JavaScript, third-party vendors, and open-source code in your web properties. The Platform provides options for securing your own code, as well as addressing a ubiquitous gap in the management of third-party digital supply chain risk – controlling the actions of the third-party, fourth and nth party JavaScript that powers your site experience. The Source Defense Platform protects against all forms of client-side security incidents – keylogging, formjacking, digital skimming, Magecart, etc. – by extending web security beyond the server to the client-side (the browser).