DRM and software security resources

Introduction to Application Security

Application Security is the protection of an application against security threats. This is a difficult task, as the application designer or corporate security manager must incorporate defenses against every imaginable attack, whereas an attacker only has to find one vulnerability or point of attack to succeed. Past techniques of protecting applications have certainly been limited, but new technology has been developed to solve this challenging problem. (Date: 10/08 Size: 180 KB)

Security Impacts of Next-Generation Set-Top Boxes

Consumer demand for media-rich home entertainment services is driving innovation and new revenue opportunities in the set-top box (STB) industry. Next-generation STBs will integrate video content from multiple signal sources such as broadcast television, premium video-on-demand and Internet-based ser­vices, provide value-added capabilities like time-shifting, and allow content to be distributed to a variety of viewing devices including multi-room TV networks, personal computers, portable media players and other mobile devices. (Date: 10/08 Size: 670 KB)

Sustainable Device Security: Breaking the Hacker Business Model with Software Security

This position paper is for mobile phone and consumer electronics (CE) manufacturers and their reference design suppliers who are enabling devices to play back premium content. An effective security solution should address Integration, Attack Resistance and Attack Mitigation, which together enable sustainable device security and break the hacker business model. Software security solutions are unique in that they enable diversity and renewability that together increase initial attack resistance and minimize the scope and longevity of a successful attack. (Date: 10/06 Size: 161 KB)

Understanding the Advantages of Cloakware White-Box Cryptography

Conventional cryptographic algorithms used to protect soft­ware keys and data are ineffective when operating in ‘‘white-box’’ environments, where a hacker has full visibility and control over the executing code. Cloakware White-box technology offers many advantages over other cryptography alternatives, including the unique capability of not revealing keys or data while the cryptographic computations are being observed in complete detail, thus ensuring that sensitive data remains se­cure. (Date: 10/08 Size: 89 KB)

Cloakware Software Security Suite

Threats to software security include reverse engineering, tampering and copying—all of which can be created as scripted attacks that can be shared and/or launched over the Internet. Cloakware Security Suite is a set of automated developer tools that apply security techniques for data and control flow transformations, anti-debug, White-box cryptography, and executable and function encryption. (Date: 10/08 Size: 148 KB)

Cloakware DRM Protection Solutions

Cloakware DRM Solutions are flexible, comprehensive packaged solutions that leverage our core software protection tools, software security expertise, and industry knowledge of cryptography and DRM standards. Delivered as a library and secure software agent, Cloakware DRM Solutions are easy and fast to integrate into your application using standard programming practices. Cloakware DRM Solutions enable you to get to market quickly with a robust, secure and compliant product, without needing to become a security expert. (Date: 10/08 Size: 182 KB)

Consulting and Design Services

Companies invest huge sums of money to develop leading-edge software, blockbuster content, and valuable intellectual property of every type. Protecting these digital assets against piracy and reverse engineering is critical; however constant threats from relentless hackers with sophisticated code-cracking tools pose a difficult challenge. Faced with these realities, the companies that take security seriously turn to experts for help, and the experts they turn to most are those at Cloakware. (Date: 06/08 Size: 188 KB)