V.i. Labs Enhances CodeArmor to Meet Growing Enterprise and Software Vendor Needs
for Intellectual Property, Reverse Engineering, and Anti-Piracy Protection
Enhanced Anti-tampering, Device Driver Verification, Secure Debugging Capabilities
among Key Components for Securing High-Value Applications
Waltham, MA — January 23, 2008 - V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“V.i. Labs”), a
provider of software protection solutions for securing high-value and mission-critical
applications, announced its latest release of CodeArmor for Windows and Microsoft
.NET, specifically tailored to meet the growing needs of enterprise and software
vendors. The new version provides additional security enhancements and extends CodeArmor’s
ability to automatically protect a wide range of software applications without modifying
their source code.
“By continually expanding the anti-reverse engineering countermeasures of CodeArmor,
enterprise organizations and software vendors can easily raise their defenses against
software piracy, code theft, and tampering on an on-going basis, without impacting
their software development resources,” said Victor DeMarines, VP of Products at
V.i. Labs. “Companies are using the CodeArmor Post Processing technology not only
to combat software piracy, but ensure their innovation and Intellectual Property
(IP) within their applications is secure from competitors and emerging countries
where the IP enforcement laws are weak.”
Sequoia Voting Systems, a large electronic voting vendor, is using CodeArmor to
enhance the protection of its embedded software.
“We chose CodeArmor because of its capability to support our diverse application
development environment and the ease in which we could layer additional security
on our sensitive e-voting software,” said Doug Weinel, VP of Election Management
Systems at Sequoia. “We see V.i. Labs as an important partner as we continue to
enhance our software security strategy.”
CodeArmor Version 2.2 contains the following new capabilities:
- Enhanced Anti-tampering – New enhancements to prevent the protected applications
files from being tampered with statically or dynamically at runtime. Binary tampering
is the leading method used by the piracy cracking community to bypass and disable
application license enforcement systems.
- Device Driver verification – Allows the runtime CodeArmor agents to verify the integrity
of device drivers to ensure safe execution of the protected application.
- Expanded Anti-debugging – Additional layers of the Anti-debug setting have been
added to guard against kernel or user level debugger tools from analyzing a protected
application during its operation.
- Sybase PowerBuilder and Borland Delphi support – The CodeArmor Post Processor technology
is the first solution of its kind to enable organizations to automatically embed
software protection within a wide variety of applications. Sybase PowerBuilder and
Borland Delphi compilers are now supported.
- Secure Debugger enhancements – Many software application platforms within the EDA
and CAD space allow partners and customers to develop extensions against their application.
CodeArmor is the first solution to offer a secure debugging capability that allows
customers to deploy protected applications and use a collaborative or outsourced
development environment without risking access to sensitive code. CodeArmor 2.2
adds additional debugging commands to the Secure Debugger console.
CodeArmor v2.2 for Windows and Microsoft .NET is available immediately. Pricing
starts at $18,500 for enterprise applications and subscription-based pricing is
available for Application providers and Independent Software Vendors.
About V.i. Laboratories (V.i. Labs)
V.i. Labs provides software protection solutions that protect against the misappropriation
and theft of intellectual property resident in software applications. Through V.i.
Labs’ patent-pending technology, software vendors, embedded system providers, enterprise
organizations and government agencies are able to easily secure their software against
the threat of piracy, tampering and theft, independent of where the applications
are distributed. V.i. Labs is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, MA.
For more information please visit
www.vilabs.com.
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V.i. Labs logo, are trademarks of V.i. Laboratories, Inc. All other product and
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Contacts:
Michael Goff
V.i. Laboratories, Inc.
781.398.3451
mgoff[at]vilabs.com
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PAN Communications
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