Guardsquare
Guardsquare provides mobile app security through code hardening, testing, and threat monitoring.
- Categories
- Mobile security, Application security testing, IoT, embedded and product security, Threat intelligence
- Based in
- Leuven, Belgium
- Founded
- 2014
- Ownership
- Private
About Guardsquare
Guardsquare provides mobile app security products and services. It sells to organisations that build iOS and Android apps, including banks, payment firms, healthcare companies, retailers, and gaming studios. Its platform combines automated security testing with code hardening and runtime checks. The company's approach is compiler-based, injecting protections during compilation rather than as an SDK wrapper. It uses polymorphic obfuscation so each build differs, and automatically inserts RASP checks. A guided workflow helps teams configure protection in under a day. Guardsquare also offers app attestation to verify that only genuine apps reach APIs, and threat monitoring for post-release visibility.
Products
- DexGuardProtects Android and cross-platform apps with obfuscation, optimisation, and runtime self-protection.
- iXGuardSecures iOS and cross-platform apps and SDKs with obfuscation and built-in runtime self-protection.
- AppSweepScans mobile apps and SDKs to find and address security issues.
- ThreatCastMonitors threats to mobile apps and SDKs in real time and helps adapt security settings.
- ProGuardAn open source tool for shrinking and optimising Java apps.
Ownership and deals
- Guardsquare acquired VerimatrixReport on Guardsquare buying Verimatrix (opens in a new tab)
- Raised private equity fundingInvestor VerdaneReport on the Guardsquare funding round of July 2025 (opens in a new tab)
Acquisitions come from SecurityWeek's monthly M&A round-ups from 2021 onwards, from Cybersecurity Ventures' quarterly M&A reports for 2020, and a few from Wikipedia lists. Funding rounds from 2022 onwards come from Return on Security's weekly Security, Funded newsletter. These are dated to the month. A few deals added from the news are dated to the day. Smaller deals may be missing. Amounts are in US dollars.