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Security for Desktop and Server Applications
Award Winning Software Protection
Desktop and server applications are increasingly subject to hacker threats. The four most significant threats to software include:
- Tampering: an attacker alters proprietary software to give access to others or enhance the software's functionality. Users might seek to add features, delete restrictions or to access hidden functionality.
- Piracy: an attacker makes unauthorized copies of proprietary software and sell reproductions at bargain prices, thereby stealing revenue from the organization creating the software.
- Reverse Engineering: extract code in order to steal intellectual property, confidential information, and proprietary algorithms.
- Insertion of Exploits: insert viruses or other malware into pirated versions
Arxan’s GuardIT offers the most advanced software protection solution that defends against today’s most prevalent software protection challenges of illegal license key generation, cloning of the license server, inadequate obfuscation or weak encryption solutions. Our solution includes, but goes beyond obfuscation and encryption to actively protect Windows and Linux applications. We defend, detect and react to at attempted attacks through a layered and dynamic network of Guards™ that provide defense-in-depth.
Arxan’s security technology for desktop and server applications is the only durable binary-based application hardening solution for x86 architectures and provides easy-to-use customized protection. Software-driven businesses are able to deploy software protection in minutes via a highly automated solution with finite control over specific and critical areas of software. Companies can also control debugging of the protected application as well as remain compatible with license management systems of their choice.
GuardIT® for Windows Applications
GuardIT for Windows is a durable and easy-to-use protection for the Windows host environment that target Windows applications in both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. With an Easy-to-use GuardScript™ Design Wizard for customized protection designs and a diverse range of Guard™ types and customizable reactions, GuardIT provides a comprehensive solution that is especially compatible with third party license management and copy protection solutions. In addition, GuardIT has the ability to fine-tune protection ranges and performance for instruction level granularity.
Additionally, GuardIT for Windows can be used to protect static application data such as resource strings, algorithmic constants and global variables against discovery and tampering. This type of protection defeats the entire class of "key injection" compromises where attackers replace public keys used to verify licenses for desktop software, or discover secret keys to unlock entire libraries of multimedia content. Also, within a mixed mode assembly, integrity verification can be executed on the managed code.
GuardIT® for Linux Applications
The high-quality performance, low cost and open-source nature of Linux has made it a mainstream platform for desktop and server based applications. As Linux gains in popularity, hackers are increasingly exploiting weaknesses in Linux applications to invade end user systems. To protect Linux applications against tampering, piracy, reverse engineering and malware insertion, Arxan’s GuardIT for Linux hardens software applications across Linux™ desktop, server and embedded platforms. For instance, GuardIT provides application hardening and anti-tamper measures to prevent theft, malware insertions and mitigate the risk of exploitable vulnerabilities in Linux applications.
GuardIT for Linux is the most durable application hardening solution that protects both 32-bit and 64-bit architecture. GuardIT provides instruction level granularity to fine-tune protection ranges and performance levels. In addition, tailored protection designs, diverse Guard types and customizable reactions, makes GuardIT a flexible and proven solution for software IP protection.
Features and Benefits
- Command line interface to integrate into build environment
- Compatible with third party license management
- Point-click breach management
- Fast, automated diversification to prevent BORE exploits
- Probabilistic, randomized execution for additional security
- Authorized debugging of protected application
- Diverse range of Guard types and customizable reactions Ability to fine-tune protection coverage and performance
to instruction level granularity - Ability to annotate source for more flexible design
- Ability for users to directly edit and optimize GuardScript
- Ability to automatically discover the functional hierarchy of an application
