License Management Applications

The third BSA and IDC Software Piracy Study reports global losses due to software piracy exceeded $34 billion dollars in 2005. This statistic demonstrates how insidious the piracy problem is despite the fact that the vast majority of software includes license management technology.

License management applications combat casual piracy, such as license mismanagement or overuse. These applications are not designed to deter professional hackers. They do not protect IP within the application from reverse engineering or code lifting. Arxan’s fortifies both your license management application and your software from piracy, tampering, reverse engineering and any manner of theft.

How do software pirates hack my license management application?

The three stages of software piracy are:

Illegal generation of license keys

Cloning of the license server

Hacking of the binary to bypass License Management

Of these stages, only the first problem of preventing illegal license key generation is considered largely solved by license management solutions. To prevent the other two stages, Arxan is needed to provide a b anti-piracy security solution. Arxan’s Guard technology inserts and dissolves into the binary to prevent hackers from circumventing the license management application and protect your software application from reverse engineering and theft.

How do I fortify both my software and my license management application?

Hackers can “trick” license managed applications into believing that it is running in the proper environment, thereby unlocking functionality. In addition, these routines often have single points of yes-no decisions which can be easily tampered to disengage the license management routines from the application software.

By using Arxan’s patented Guard™ technology, we closely intertwine your application functionality and license management functionality with anti-tamper and self-healing Guards to fortify your software and your license management application. Therefore, the hacker is not able to decouple the license management solution from your software.