IDC report and profile: Sinking Software Pirates:
Conventional approaches to countering software piracy have been largely ineffectual. Software vendors want to deliver secure, reliable applications to their customer, but perhaps more important, vendors must protect their valuable intellectual property. This vendor spotlight by IDC examines the current state of software application vulnerability, and the measures that are routinely used by enterprise IT organizations and the software vendors themselves to ensure security against the most common breaches. The paper also profiles software security leader Arxan, and its role in more effective and aggressive software protection.

7 Key Factors to Software Protection:
According to the IDC, software piracy worldwide was nearly $40 billion in 2006. Newly emergent trends clearly indicate that the rampant growth in software-based intellectual property piracy and tampering require software companies to deploy a software protection solution immediately. There are 7 key factors to software protection and Arxan's approach to securing software possesses all of the 7 key factors. This white paper explores the magnitude and types of software threats as well as the Arxan's GuardT technology as a resilient solution to stopping software piracy and tampering.

3 Steps to Deploy Software Protection: An Arxan Solution:
Software piracy and tampering is rampant and compromises revenues as well as a companies underlying intellectual property. This white paper presents an in-depth overview of the Arxan solution and provides 3 easy steps on how it can be deployed to stop piracy and tampering of your intellectual property.

Achieve Information Security: Key Hiding:
In this paper, we will discuss prevailing threats to cryptographic keys, a defense-in-depth approach to addressing key vulnerabilities and how to prevent compromise of your enterprise’s intellectual property and customer confidential information. A number of security options that address risk mitigation are also reviewed. Additionally, best practices for key protection, which include application hardening are provided. Lastly, Arxan’s TransformIT™ is presented, which enhances software security by preventing tampering and hacking attacks on keys that are used within software applications. Hence, TransformIT prevents content, data and revenue lost.

Protecting .NET Software Applications:
Enterprises and software vendors have long recognized that protecting .NET applications against compromise is vital to their long term viability, and to long term safeguarding of an organization’s software and data assets. In this white paper, we will discuss best practices and how GuardIT® for Microsoft .NET Framework can provide an arsenal of deep and intrinsic protection techniques for managed and mixed-mode code that durably fortify your code against disassembly, static analysis, dynamic analysis and tampering.Protecting .NET Software Applications.

Protecting Keys in Digital Media Systems:
Key discovery is the most prevalent class of threats to content protection systems today, such as digital rights management (DRM) systems, digital cinema encryption protocols or conditional access solutions. It is therefore critical to protect keys.

Protection tools such as anti-tamper and software-based key protection are therefore critical essential to comprehensive security and to mitigating the full spectrum of threats to digital media applications. Arxan’s protection solution based on diversity, defense-in-depth and randomization provides an effective means to protect intellectual property and private or public keys, thereby minimizing losses to piracy or malware attacks.

Securing DRM and Multimedia Applications through Guard Technology:
Software protection is a critical issue for companies seeking to implement or use digital rights management technology. The best encryption schemes are useless if a hacker can quickly acquire the key. Digital rights management technology is all too easily hacked such that its controls are bypassed entirely, leading to rampant media and music piracy.

Arxan provides the lowest total cost of ownership for DRM robustness through durable protection, point and click breach management, strong individualization and secure renewability. Impact on development teams is minimized, since we allow the separation of core application development from its fortification. This allows application vendors to focus on meeting consumer needs while Arxan quickly and effectively secures sensitive routines.

How to Lock Down Your License Management:
Software vendors often believe that a license management solution alone is adequate to secure their software against unauthorized use and tampering. However, global piracy continues to grow. In this white paper, Arxan explains ways to tightly bind security to both their applications and license management systems for overall application security.