Customer Applications to Prevent
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Software Piracy Customers:
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PLM software vendor
Software Piracy
Background:
This company is a leader in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) and CAD/CAM/CAE software
solutions, has over 35,000 customers worldwide, and product revenues approaching
$700M a year.
Challenges:
The company was aware that its software was being pirated, but did not know to what
extent and how much it was being used by actual organizations they could recover
revenue from. The company had active legal and license compliance programs to reduce
software piracy and was concerned with piracy rates overseas.
Solution:
The company selected V.i. Labs as its partner to implement piracy detection and
reporting into its major product line and provide additional piracy analysis services.
V.i. Labs’ CodeArmor Intelligence solution was selected for the ease in which it
could be integrated into current products, its ability to stealthily report data,
and the fact that it provided a turnkey system to meet their detection, data collection,
and reporting requirements. Because the solution would only trigger reporting when
a tampered version of the software was actually used, the CodeArmor Intelligence
process minimized any impact to their existing licensed customer base.
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Digital Media software vendor
Software Piracy
Background:
This public company is a leader in digital media playback and burning software:
the vast majority of DVDs are created with its software and its player software
is installed on millions of PCs.
Challenges:
The company must implement the Advanced Access Control System (AACS - a DRM system
to control content distribution) and ensure compliance to AACS robustness rules.
Traditionally, if AACS keys were compromised then an expensive revocation procedure
was required - and consumer DVD DRM controls are under a constant threat of piracy.
Solution:
The company selected CodeArmor to add anti-debug and advanced re-encryption functions
to protect the use of AACS keys. The selection based on CodeArmor's ease of use
and automation of security.
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High-Value software vendor
Software Piracy
Background:
The comany is a leader in the electronic design automation (EDA) software market
with thousands of installations worldwide with an average cost per seat in the tens
of thousands of dollars.
Challenges:
The company was facing cracking teams that were leveraging binary patches to use
older license key generators (a “class break”). It needed a way to secure its license
management system without changing source code and wanted to take a partnership
approach to anti-piracy.
Solution:
The company selected CodeArmor to protect its license management functions within
executables and specific DLLs to prevent binary patches and new reverse engineering
vulnerabilities.
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Ecommerce Solutions provider
Software Piracy
Background:
The company offers ecommerce services to online merchants of all sizes and processes
requests millions of visitors a day across tens of thousands of web sites.
Challenges:
The company wanted to expand its market by extending digital rights management (DRM)
services to support software sales. It needed a non-invasive process for adding
DRM licensing functions while protecting those functions from attack by crackers.
Solution:
The company uses a branded version of CodeArmor to embed and protect licensing functions
within native Windows and .NET applications.
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Code Theft Customers:
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Mining Software vendor
Software Piracy and Code Theft
Background:
The company with operations in the Asia Pacific region is a leader in providing
the mining industry with mine planning, equipment optimization, and financial analysis
software solutions.
Challenges:
The company's high-value software applications are being increasingly sold into
China and Asia Pacific where software intellectual property (IP) enforcement is
weak. It was also concerned about its .NET code being decompiled and wanted to layer
anti-reverse engineering technology on top of its new licensing mechanism.
Solution:
The company is using CodeArmor and its unique support for both native Windows and
.NET applications, citing the ease with which protection is added to binaries.
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Inspection Systems supplier
Code Theft
Background:
This public company offers detection and inspection solutions for securing ports,
border crossings and high-risk facilities and events worldwide.
Challenges:
The company was concerned with reverse engineering and cloning because it sells
its solutions into emerging markets where IP enforcement is weak. It needed to protect
its sensitive algorithms that are embedded in its equipment.
Solution:
The company is using CodeArmor to protect its globally deployed applications with
no impact to existing functionality, performance and user experience. CodeArmor
was selected because it was product-based and did not impact the company's product
development cycle.
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Financial Services organization
Code Theft
Background:
The company is a leading provider of economic and financial expertise and management
consulting services. Its software development group provides highly specialized
applications for calculation and modeling to global business units.
Challenges:
The company's applications are developed in Microsoft .NET. Because the use and
distribution of applications was expanding to customer sites and global locations,
the company needed to go beyond obfuscation to protect critical algorithms and modeling
information within its applications.
Solution:
The company is using CodeArmor for Microsoft .NET to protect its aplications as
a more effective protection layer to code obfuscation.
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Tampering Customers:
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Gaming Equipment vendor
Tampering
Background:
The company is a billion dollar provider of computerized gaming equipment, network
systems, licensing and services that develops server-based games and operations
software using .NET technologies.
Challenges:
Microsoft .NET is easily decompiled and simple to tamper with and the company is
in a regulated industry requiring adherence to software protection guidelines.
Solution:
The company selected CodeArmor to provide protection beyond obfuscation. It is protecting
the user interface application as well as back-end services against theft and tampering.
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Online Gaming site
Tampering
Background:
The company is a leading online games provider that develops and distributes games
to high-traffic distribution partners.
Challenges:
The company offers over 70 games played by 30 million registered users and was concerned
with the constant threat of fraud. It needed to protect the integrity of game play
to ensure customer adoption without impacting end users' performance or compatibility.
Solution:
The company is using CodeArmor for its anti-tampering functionality in addition
to an existing backend fraud detection system. CodeArmor supports Microsoft Vista
and protects the company's ActiveX controls and game DLLs against tampering and
modification.
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Election Technology provider
Tampering
Background:
The company is an election technology provider whose equipment is used by hundreds
of jurisdictions in the United States throughout dozens of states.
Challenges:
The company submits its equipment to independent testing facilities to assess whether
they are secure, accurate, and reliable.
Solution:
The company chose CodeArmor because of its capability to support its diverse application
development environment (including Sybase PowerBuilder) and the ease in which it
could layer additional security on its sensitive e-voting software.
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Information Security software vendor
Tampering
Background:
The company - founded by key Microsoft product leaders - offers an innovative solution
to manage security policy within Enterprise Active Directory environments.
Challenges:
The company wanted to protect its sensitive algorithms from both competitors and
malicious users that may want to subvert our technology.
Solution:
The company is using CodeArmor because it provides a comprehensive defense against
reverse engineering, and offers an easy way to embed the security into existing
software without impacting the development process.
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Automated Coupon Redemption technology vendor
Tampering
Background:
The company is an innovator in automated coupon redemption technology and is developing
appliance technology for retail customers.
Challenges:
Coupons are the second largest currency and the coupon redemption business is fraught
with corruption. As this customer deployed software retailer stores, it needed to
ensure compliance to PCI standards. Additionally, it was using .NET code that is
easily decompiled once deployed.
Solution:
The company selected CodeArmor Software Protection to prevent decompiling and tampering
of the .NET-based Coupon Redemption application. It is also leveraging CodeArmor’s
threat detection for centralized reporting of tamper events.
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