While advances in hardware and processing power get much attention in today’s technology marketplace, software innovation is what brings hardware to life. Software applications, and their underlying source code, are the crown jewels of independent software vendors (ISVs) who invest countless person-hours and financial resources to gain an edge in the hyper-competitive software industry. Yet, many ISVs pay little attention to securing their software assets, leaving their applications exposed to reverse engineering, tampering and IP theft. Whether your software runs on an open PC platform or is embedded in a proprietary device, it is vulnerable to attack, placing your business at risk.
An effective software protection strategy requires a thorough understanding of your code’s vulnerabilities, knowledge of the various threat models and attack scenarios to which you are exposed, and the implementation of diverse software protection techniques. Cloakware’s consulting and design services can guide your team through the entire software security lifecycle. From requirements analysis, to solution design & implementation, to conformance testing, to breach mitigation & management, our security experts can advise you on best practices and techniques to ensure your success.
Cloakware’s modular defense approach provides effective protection of your valuable intellectual property by layering in a variety of software security technologies and programming techniques.
The key to a secure product is to ensure that critical assets are protected in the worst-case context, where an attacker has full visibility and full control of the application. With Cloakware Security Suite, you can quickly and easily build multiple layers of protection directly into your software, embedding and meshing security into every level of your application
The first step focuses on securing critical assets. Cloakware’s White-box cryptography solutions operate without revealing keys or data, even when the cryptographic computations can be observed in complete detail. With this strong White-box foundation in place to protect the most critical components of your product, Cloakware’s automated tools allow you to quickly layer on a variety of additional protection techniques.
Data Transformations obfuscate variables and all math operations on this data to ensure it is not visible to an attacker and does not reveal information damaging to the critical assets. Control Flow Transformations disguise the programmatic flow of the application, making it very difficult for an attacker to statically or dynamically trace the operation of the application.
To defend against tool-based attacks, Anti-debug technology shuts down the application in the presence of debuggers, greatly inhibiting the attacker’s ability to trace through and analyze the target product.
Integrity verification, Cloakware’s code signing technique, allows the application to dynamically self-check its authenticity prior to startup and during run-time execution.
Code encryption techniques encapsulate the functionality within a cryptographic shell, rendering it inaccessible until the moment of execution. This encryption is applied at one or more of the application, the binary, the function or the code block levels, allowing for maximum flexibility to meet specific security and performance requirements.
Finally, Diversity protects your application against widespread security breaches by allowing you to deploy multiple variants of your product to the field, while Renewability ensures that security of your application can be easily updated or modified after deployment.
Creativity and intellectual property are your company’s most important assets. Protect them, and your business, with expert advice and state-of-the-art software security tools from Cloakware.
Contact us to find out how we can help make your software more secure.
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