Wibu-Systems Blog

When licenses break, best practices recommend to trust your customers and blacklist the associated containers.

How acute is the threat posed by quantum computing to existing cryptographic methods and critical systems?

IP cyber theft has remained in the shadows, while media mainly covered the theft of personally identifiable information.

Home-based workers operating beyond the safeguards of their corporate IT infrastructure are an easier target for cybercriminals.

When Freedom is more than just a theory and opens up new business growth and customer service opportunities.

Many companies and employees are seeing the advantages of a remote workforce, but what does this shift entail in the long term?

Product piracy has reached an all-time high of 74% among German companies in the mechanical and plant engineering industry.

Exploring four key security areas to harden the shopfloor and run an efficient and profitable Industry 4.0 operation.

Our personal contribution in these trying times: a free license container that lives in the cloud to support all home office workers.

The use of 3D printing technology and the move to outsourcing are creating an environment for unintended consequences.

Exploring the main differences between protecting a desktop application and a Windows service or a server application.

During the COVID-19 crisis, our Business Continuity Plan is mitigating threats to public health and maintaining business ops.

The U.S. government has recently taken action and passed three pieces of legislation aimed at promoting safe IoT growth.

The rise of digital twins increases the number of software vulnerabilities, risk of IP theft, and exposure of critical processes.

Software runs the world and as such should be considered critical infrastructure. A lack of software security is a national threat.

As new software based technologies, products, and applications emerge, a flexible and secure licensing platform is a must

AI research is largely focused on augmenting and improving the practice of radiology and, consequently, patient care.

Encouraging manufacturers to ensure they ship their devices in a secure state is the key objective of the UK government.

The U.S. software market grew twice as fast as the overall economy supporting 1 in every 10 jobs and will rise even further.

Embracing the shift in customer preferences led by Industry 4.0 and radically transforming the entire business strategy.

The software licensing tools must be readily adaptable to the new purchasing and delivery models of the connected age.

Is the "right-to-repair" concept an essential service for customers or a violation of manufacturers' intellectual property?

The approach to software security should be flexible, adaptable, outcome-focused, risk-based, cost-effective, and repeatable.

Given the significant impact of the software industry, it is critical to create new policies that generate economic opportunity.

Whether your decision is driven by technology or market reasons, the migration to CodeMeter is smoother than you may think.

Using CmDongles as oracles with an Hyperledger Blockchain in the context of 3D printing applied to a healthcare environment.

One of the most frequent questions asked in developer communities is when to use .NET framework and when to use .NET Core.

Secure hardware-based license dongles remain the platform of choice for the ultimate in software protection against unauthorized usage or illegal tampering.

Recent reports in the U.S. indicate that military weapons and security systems offer the same vulnerabilities found in key infrastructure

The next frontier in DLTs is developing reliable interactions between events and data pushed into a distributed ledger and the physical world.

A never-ending discussion between law enforcement and their ability to obtain useful crime evidence and the need for personal data to be protected.

With modern software applications being a combination of public software libraries and custom code, software supply chain security risks are on the rise.

"Bricking" in software license management translates into the ability to lock down a license if an appropriate or illegal use of the software is detected.

The speed in which development teams are releasing new software is making it difficult for the security operations team to keep up.

Alarming insights and compelling guidelines in the 2018 BSA global survey: Software Management: Security Imperative, Business Opportunity.

With national elections soon coming up in the U.S., the mere thought of further interference with the democratic process is raising deep concerns.

VDMA Product Piracy Study 2018 indicates that, while the overall scale of damage remains unchanged, damages have worsened in the last two years.

When choosing the right system software for medical devices, secure communications, multi-CdPU design, modularity and scalability are key.

Product liability in the cyberworld opens up a whole new area of litigation, as the ISV becomes also responsible of software exploitation for malicious intent.

The U.S. points to China for rampant IP theft, which they believe has significantly weakened U.S. companies’ position in the global market.

Since the IP of today’s of most medical equipment is encapsulated in embedded software, the industry is ripe for attack.

CodeMeter products are not affected by Meltdown and Spectre, even if a would-be attacker should manage to access the application memory.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.”

Software entrepreneurs who are developing their first time application have the luxury of building-in their software licensing and protection solution from the outset.

Late last year, the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & Society issued a very interesting report on Deep Shift: 21 Ways Software Will Transform Global Society.

This past summer, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) published an interesting document entitled, Architect’s Guide: IoT Security.

Many software developers have turned to the free trial business model to market their enterprise software – simply put, offer free software for a timed period and hope the end user performs a thorough evaluation and sees enough value to warrant a purchase of the software after the trial expires.

Endpoint Security for a rail system: another Industrial internet system success story.

The SD Association recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the microSD™ Card.

The intellectual property gained during the development of an ISV’s flagship software product most likely represents an investment in hundreds and hundreds of man hours. 

Whether it be Stuxnet or an iPhone virus, it is people who are the cause for trouble.

We’ve all seen the disturbing software piracy statistics released by BSA | The Software Alliance in their Global Software Survey.

A recent report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit entitled Long-term Macroeconomic Forecasts: Key trends to 2050 highlighted some of the emerging economic issues expected to shape global business in the coming decades.

Attackers — in ever greater numbers and with increasing sophistication — see, in the growing promise of our tech-connected world, opportunities to steal or cause major disruption or destruction by exploiting vulnerabilities.

I recently read an interesting article in Engineering and Technology Magazine, entitled ‘Immature’ Internet of Things Hackable with Primitive Methods.

ISVs today must address many questions in your product development and delivery strategies as the software licensing landscape has become increasingly complex.

Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged that he once feared that terrorists could use the electrical device that had been implanted near his heart to kill him and had his doctor disable its wireless function.

By now, many of you have heard about the "BadUSB" exploit, where two security researchers at Security Research Labs demonstrated how they could perpetrate an attack on USB devices.

Faced with an increasingly complicated network environment, made only more complex by the addition of virtualization, cloud services and bring your own devices (BYOD), many of your customers are also struggling to keep track of their software assets, contracts, and entitlements.

Adobe may have raised some eyebrows last year when they announced they were moving their packaged Creative Suite PC software to the cloud, but most industry analysts predicted this day was coming – it was just a matter of how soon.

In their book, Embedded Systems Security, David and Michael Kleidermacher point out some all-to-real scenarios about the consequences of malicious threats to embedded systems.

When describing software protection dongles in a 2007 article appearing in PC Magazine, John C. Dvorak, a well-respected (but self-described curmudgeon) and award winning columnist said, “The dongle was a mostly failed copy-protection device that came into existence in the 1980s. It was also a point of controversy…”

We talk a lot about copy protection in this space but what I want to focus on today is what is meant by the phrase "secure software licensing."

The big news for crypto-wonks this week is that an international group of researchers has cracked a portion of RSA encryption.

There are plenty of reasons to use a software protection dongle even when you're running an embedded system.

Hackers are out there. So you can't take for granted--now or ever--that it won't happen to you.

Anytime you add a 3rd party component into your overall product stack you need to be thoughtful before you decide.