V.i. Labs Forms Technology Partnership with Uniloc USA
Partnership Integrates Device Locking Activation Technology with V.i. Labs’ Software Protection Solution to Provide a Strong Defense against Piracy
Waltham, MA — November 15, 2006 — V.i. Laboratories Inc., a provider of software
protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications,
announced today a technology partnership with Uniloc USA, a leading provider of
device locked product activation software. The partnership will integrate Uniloc’s
patented device locking activation technology, softANCHOR™, with V.i. Labs’ CodeArmor™
software protection solution – providing Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) and
embedded application providers with a powerful anti-piracy solution.
The technology integration — delivered as a separate CodeArmor product extension
— will leverage the software protection capabilities of CodeArmor with softANCHOR
device locking, enabling users to prevent overt piracy and license overuse or “inadvertent”
piracy. V.i. Labs’ customers will be able to implement the device locking technology
without requiring changes to application source code or existing license enforcement
systems.
Uniloc’s softANCHOR provides a secure and robust method for preventing the unauthorized
installation and copying of software applications. Uniloc’s patented technology
is able to activate software based on a unique “device fingerprint” that is difficult
to spoof and offers built-in intelligence to prevent unwarranted activations. Leveraging
the CodeArmor application extension framework, softANCHOR technology can be easily
incorporated into the CodeArmor protection process to enforce CodeArmor protection
on authorized machines only.
“The ease with which V.i. customers can apply our device locking technology to their
existing software products made this partnership an obvious choice for us,” said
Michael Broderick, CEO of Uniloc USA. “V.i. Labs’ approach will significantly increase
the adoption of our technology within the high value ISV market and provide V.i.
customers with yet another layer of protection against piracy.”
“The two significant piracy issues our customers face are direct piracy attacks
that bypass their software license enforcement systems and license overuse caused
by spoofing weak device activation approaches,” said Joe Noonan, CEO and president
of V.i. Labs. “By integrating Uniloc’s technology with our own, we offer customers
a single software protection solution that meets their anti-piracy needs without
significant integration work.”
Availability
Uniloc’s device locking technology will be available as a separate CodeArmor product
extension in early December.
About Uniloc
USA Uniloc USA (“Uniloc”) is the technology leader in electronic “device recognition”
for securing networks, data and digital content. Device recognition is the method
of uniquely identifying a user device, such as a PC, server, game console, smart
phone or cell phone, by the naturally occurring, inherent physical imperfections
of that device, and then incorporating that “device fingerprint” into access credentials
or licenses. Uniloc’s technology can identify devices with more comparable accuracy
than human DNA. Uniloc is the inventor and holder of the seminal device recognition
patent (US 5,490,216), and has over 10 related patents pending.
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.
Contacts:
Victor DeMarines
V.i. Laboratories, Inc.
781.398.3404
vdemarines@vilabs.com
Jeff Dillow/Jason O'Keefe
PAN Communications
978.474.1900
vilaboratories@pancomm.com