Guardsquare
Guardsquare, founded in 2014 and based in Leuven, Belgium, protects Android and iOS apps with code hardening, RASP and real-time threat monitoring via products including DexGuard, iXGuard, AppSweep and ThreatCast.
Guardsquare is a mobile application security company founded in 2014 and headquartered in Leuven, Belgium, with a North American presence in Boston. It protects Android and iOS applications through code hardening and obfuscation, runtime application self-protection (RASP) and real-time threat monitoring. The company grew out of ProGuard, an open-source code optimisation and obfuscation tool, and retains an open-source commitment through ProGuard and ProGuardCORE, its library for working with Java bytecode.
Guardsquare's product line covers the mobile security lifecycle. DexGuard provides advanced protection for Android applications and iXGuard for iOS. AppSweep is a free security testing tool for Android apps, while ThreatCast delivers continuous real-time threat intelligence and monitoring for mobile applications in the wild.
The company reports protecting more than 1,000 customers across upwards of 85 countries, securing over 6 billion mobile devices. Technical work spans mobile application security, code obfuscation and hardening, RASP, threat monitoring and intelligence, code optimisation, reverse engineering prevention and security testing, serving the mobile application development, cybersecurity and software development sectors.
Guardsquare states a commitment to advancing mobile security practices industry-wide as well as to the developer community through its open-source contributions.