Analyst Review of Code Heist and Software Protections

Leading Analysts Deconstruct Code Theft at Major Financial Institution

Recently, according to the FBI, a Wall Street trading code was stolen by a Goldman Sachs employee.  This code and its platform, developed by Goldman Sachs, enable high-speed, high-volume trades worth millions of dollars for them.

Read what the experts from Gartner and The 451 Group are saying about this code heist and protections available:

• “Security No-Brainer #7: If You Have Intellectual Property Embedded in Software, Protect it.” – read Neil MacDonald’s blog (Gartner analyst)
• “Goldman Sachs hack: leak detection vs. leak prevention” – read The 451 Group blog
  

Arxan’s GuardIT products protect application based intellectual property by defending, detecting, alerting and reacting to code-based attacks by either internal or external threats.  Protections can quickly and easily be instrumented for the entire application or for critical algorithms such that any attacks on intellectual property are immediately thwarted in real-time. 

Our tampering alerts have also been integrated into enterprise security management consoles such as McAfee ePO and ArcSight SIEM such that administrators can have real-time visibility and control of running applications.

Contact us to learn how we can secure your applications and its critical IP.