Guard Technology Protects Software Against Piracy

Defend, Detect and React Against Application Tampering or Code Theft

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Thomson's NexGuard solution has been adopted by leading media companies to prevent valuable content from being pirated. Thanks to our partnership with Arxan, NexGuard relies upon best-of-breed anti-tamper and anti-hacking technologies to help our customers ward off new and emerging threats, in a manner which is both extremely user friendly and without impact on application performance.

Jean-Luc Moullet, VP, Software & Technology Solutions, Thomson

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Obfuscation and encryption are important first layers to protecting software against piracy and reverse engineering. With hacker sophistication today, however, these static measures are no longer sufficient to provide durable, resilient protection for valuable IP. Arxan’s Guard technology includes static measures but takes a quantum leap forward to dynamic protection with small protection units - Guards™- that are inserted into the software’s binary.

Guards not only defend against compromise, but actively detect attempted attacks and react in fully customizable ways. These small units protect not only your program but also each other forming an intricate security web that is deeply embedded into, and therefore inextricable from, the protected application.

Once deployed, Arxan’s Guard protection dissolves into the binary, making it virtually impossible to pirate or tamper with the application. Arxan’s Guard Technology Meets the 7 Key Factors for Successful Software Protection and is the backbone of Arxan's GuardIT Family of Products.

GuardIT^® for Software Applications

Effective and Efficient Application Hardening

GuardIT enables companies to:

• Protect software rich IP against piracy and tampering to preserve revenue and brand erosion
• Provide durable and customized protection; even against sophisticated threats and professional hackers
• Maintain customer satisfaction: protection is transparent to end user experience
• Deploy software protection in minutes via a highly automated and binary-based solution that supports existing release schedules and the SDLC
• Exercise finite control over specific and critical areas of the software
• Automate critical but traditionally labor-intensive tasks such as renewability (securely updating the application over time)
• Control debugging of protected application
• Remain compatible with license management systems such as FlexLM and Reprise