Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for enhancing secure client experience through selective encryption of cookies. Techniques include using a proxy resource configured to selectively encrypt cookies exchanged between a client application and a target application through software-based operations. Operations may comprise receiving at the proxy resource, from the target application, a cookie that was provisioned for the client application, inspecting one or more attributes of the cookie, and selectively determining, based on the one or more attributes and before sending the cookie to the client application, whether to encrypt the cookie. Further techniques include developing a before-and-after comparison of the client application functionality using a cookie with encryption and a cookie without encryption.