The field of Information Technology thrives on Intellectual Property. Companies, both small and big, spend huge amounts of money, effort and time in the manufacturing of a software product/application. In order to safeguard this intellectual property from the ‘Piracy Epidemic’, companies employ various license protection mechanisms. These mechanisms vary from serial keys, license files to online activations and hardware keys.

But are they strong enough?

Need

Imagine the product you created by putting in your thought, time and money, being illegally reproduced or cracked and freely given away by others. What incentive or motivation would there be to continue the hard work?

Software piracy resulted in a loss of $34 billion worldwide in 2005, a $1.6 billion increase over 2004, according to a study commissioned by the Business Software Alliance.

While the large corporations can, to an extent, withstand such kind of losses; what about the medium and small scale organizations whose entire line of business depends on just a couple of products?

Demo software cracked into full versions, sniffing of license keys out of the software itself, generating keys that evaluate to the same hash as the valid license are only a few of the threats that endanger a company's intellectual property.

So how can intellectual property be protected from such a formidable foe?

Our Solution

At CoE Security it is our constant effort to provide solutions for threats that plague a software product/application. Therefore, according to our proposed solution, every product/application before launch into the market (including demo release) has to undergo our Piracy Testing wherein the product/application is put through, both the standard and latest cracking techniques and the robustness in terms of license protection is assessed.

A detailed report comprising the findings along with suggestions and recommendations for improving the license security are also made.

Benefits

• Protect Intellectual Property from being freely distributed.

• Heavy economic benefits accrue when only valid/licensed copies of your software product/appliction are purchased in the market.

• The efforts of the company and in turn the employees is recognized and aptly rewarded.
  
  
• Provides motivation to put in more effort.