Anytime you add a 3rd party component into your overall product stack you need to be thoughtful before you decide. Copy protection software is no different: it's something you will rely on to protect more
The world is flat. Thomas Friedman argues in his classic work that modern telecommunications makes global trade and competition a simple fact of modern life. And so you need flat earth software licens more
The big news for crypto-wonks this week is that an international group of researchers has cracked a portion of RSA encryption. And it's not like they had to throw supercomputers at the problem; it was more
We’ve been hearing the term " software monetization " bandied about. What does it mean? We define software monetization as the capability to effectively maximize your software revenue by meeting marke more
ISVs today must address many questions in your product development and delivery strategies as the software licensing landscape has become increasingly complex. Let’s take a look at some of these quest more
I recently read an interesting article in Engineering and Technology Magazine, entitled ‘Immature’ Internet of Things Hackable with Primitive Methods. What caught my eye was the opening paragraph that more
With today’s cloud or virtual solutions, there are many available license management options to evaluate and even more questions to consider – What about security? Service levels? Architecture? Server more
Hackers are out there. So you can't take for granted--now or ever--that it won't happen to you. Achieving software security is a complex problem; what's amazing to me is how often the bad guys get in more
There are plenty of reasons to use a software protection dongle even when you're running an embedded system. Some people believe that embedded systems are immune to piracy because the software has to more
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. By reprogramming th more
If you have decided to integrate a 3rd party licensing solution for your software application, you’ve made the right choice. By doing so, you’ve freed up your developers to do what they do best — writ more
Software for embedded systems is based more and more on open system platforms – Linux Embedded, VxWorks , Windows Embedded, QNX and many others. In addition to powerful core functionality, one of the more
"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 ex more
Whether it be Stuxnet or an iPhone virus, it is people who are the cause for trouble. But let’s go back to how the story began: Just a few days ago, it was unthinkable for an iPhone to be infected wit more
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. The majority of that time is s more
The SD Association recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the microSD™ Card. Founded in 2000 by Panasonic, SanDisk and Toshiba, the SD Association is a group dedicated to establishing SD standard more
This past summer, the Trusted Computing Group (TCG) published an interesting document entitled, Architect’s Guide: IoT Security . The document outlined 5 critical strategies that developers of connect more
When I recently watched a report about Tofaş , with its impressive one-million square meter operation and its leading position in the Fiat-Chrysler world in terms of World Class Manufacturing (WCM), I more
The Industrial Internet Consortium held an interesting TweetChat last week in preparation for their Security event held on Tuesday, November 4 in NYC. The IIC-led chat posed 6 questions and received e more
When At&T, Cisco, GE, IBM and Intel founded the Industrial Internet Consortium in March 2014, I wonder if they had envisioned how quickly the International technology community would embrace the their more