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The pay-per-use model is widely embraced by consumers, has tangible benefits for ISVs and embedded system developers, and is industry-agnostic.

Cybercrime will cost up to $6 trillion by 2021 - nearly half of today’s US GDP and more profitable than the global trade of all major illegal drugs combined.

The next generation of software monetization is about enabling business models that provide additional opportunity for monetization to drive growth.

Do we all share a common understanding of IIoT terms? Most likely not, and that’s why the IIC continues to update its IIoT Vocabulary Report.

Will this legislation remedy the market failure that has occurred and encourage device manufacturers to compete on the security of their IoT products?

Unlike the often used obfuscation approach, Blurry Box cryptography offers software protection that is completely based on publicly available methods.

A cloud-based licensing and software protection service with private Blockchain to address non-repudiable logging is under investigation.

Modern usage-based licensing is trending in the software monetization market as customers gain say in how they want to consume their software.

In today’s age of the IoT, true offline computers are a relic of a bygone age. Go for proxy strategies or securely controlled outbound connections.

Software issues can have a dramatic impact on industrial processes, bringing an entire production line to a halt and affecting bottom-line profits.

To demonstrate the validity and strength of Blurry Box, its novel encryption mechanism, Wibu-Systems has launched a global hackers' contest.

Under the cloud of increasing cybersecurity threats, it is clear that a security by design approach is a necessity for any embedded system.

Most content is created, stored, and transmitted digitally. Left unprotected, it can be distributed electronically to millions of people in just seconds.

Fritz Stephan structured a scalable licensing model where they can remotely activate features on-demand and create new post-sales revenues.

“The system should not require secrecy and it must not be a problem if it falls into enemy hands.”

The Smart Factory is driven by real-time interactions of people, machines, assets, systems, and things that collectively enable self-governed processes.

Much has been written lately about IIoT endpoints and their many potential security vulnerabilities.

In the past decade, the Internet has dramatically changed the way software and the corresponding licenses are delivered.

The push for some form of liability for vendors who sell faulty or insecure software has been the subject of debate for many years with little or no clear agreement on its legality or how to enforce it.

The US FDA recently published new recommendations for both manufacturers and regulators to address medical device cybersecurity.

With just a few shopping days left before Christmas, the retail frenzy is at its height.