The Role of Client-Side Protection in Modern Application Security

As organizations race to enhance their digital user experience, they build rich, modern web applications that rely on many external third-party, UI-related resources. As a result, the client-side has emerged as a critical blind spot, where malicious scripts can lurk, resulting in devastating, costly data breaches.

This has made securing the client-side a crucial aspect of modern application security, bringing the focus to safeguarding end-user activities from potential threats on dynamic web pages accessed directly from their device.

This paper details the challenges, inherent risks, strategies to mitigate these risks and the crucial role of Client-Side Protection in a modern application security stack.