Overview
MeDirect is a pan-European digital banking company founded in 2004 and Malta’s third-largest banking group in terms of total assets. MeDirect focuses on WealthTech and specialized mortgage lending. It offers different tools and services to help customers manage their money from over 850 funds, 400 ETFs, and 3,000 stocks. MeDirect has over 106,000 customers and is expanding globally. Their vision is to provide a convenient way for people to manage and control their finances.
Challenge
MeDirect was concerned about users accessing the code built with NativeScript. This represented a security risk as their source code could easily be reverse-engineered. MeDirect tried some obfuscation techniques to hide its code but quickly understood it wasn’t enough to ensure its security.
When choosing the best solution to protect their web application, MeDirect prioritized the ease of integration and the effectiveness of JavaScript protection. MeDirect was also worried about impacting the performance of their application – they wanted to guarantee that the new security solution would not have any performance impact.
Solution
MeDirect focused on the benefits of polymorphic JavaScript Obfuscation, which transforms source code into a new version that is extremely hard to understand and reverse engineer while keeping its original functionality. This security layer also includes Jscrambler’s Code Hardening feature, which provides up-to-date protection against all reverse-engineering tools and techniques.
MeDirect’s team conducted several tests to check the threat resistance level and security effectiveness, including Penetration Tests, Vulnerability Scanning, and Code Reviews. This set of mechanisms was used to measure the ability of the code to resist different types of threats, such as code injection, data theft, and unauthorized access.
“Jscrambler fulfilled the entire checklist of the application security worries we had.”
Chris PortelliChief Technology Officer at MeDirect
Top Jscrambler Features and Capabilities
- Polymorphic JavaScript obfuscation
- Code hardening and self-defensive capabilities against tampering attempts
- Minimal impact on performance and file size optimization
Results
MeDirect’s team encountered no issues when implementing Jscrambler. They started with the base mobile template first and integrated Code Integrity in minutes as it slid easily into their CI/CD pipeline.
MeDirect had an extensive checklist of critical needs that Jscrambler managed to satisfy by providing in-depth protection of their app source code.
