V.i. Labs and Internet Crimes Group Team to Provide new Software Piracy Threat Assessment and Prevention Solution
Customers Now Have the Ability to Continually Monitor and Improve Their Anti-PiracyStrategy
Waltham, MA — April 17, 2007 —V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“V.i. Labs”), a provider
of software protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications,
and Internet Crimes Group, Inc. (“ICG”) have teamed up to create a new comprehensive
anti-piracy solution. The new offering not only prevents code tampering and reverse-engineering,
but also identifies the most active and significant cracking teams that focus on
specific customer software titles and then delivers continuous reports on the effectiveness
of their anti-piracy measures.
“The combination of software protection and proactive forensic intelligence is a
major step torward an Anti-Piracy solution to help companies protect their intellectual
property and investment in software development, sales, and distribution,” said
Jeffrey Bedser, President of ICG. “Piracy teams work very hard to recruit suppliers,
crackers, and other specialty members to pirate high value software to compete with
an official product release. The piracy network and distribution channels these
teams operate through are complex and feed those warez sources that are publicly
available. We have proven solutions for developers and manufacturers to deliver
both business and technical intelligence to mitigate these threats.”
ICG is the premier provider of intelligence and threat management solutions to Global
2500 corporations and leading law firms. ICG provides Intelligence gathering, modeling,
and analysis of online piracy and fraud communities as well as recommendation and
investigation of litigation targets. V.i. Labs will incorporate ICG services into
its CodeArmor solution to create a unique Piracy Intelligence and Reporting service
that provides customers the ability to:
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Validate the effectiveness of their anti-piracy strategy including implementation
of software protection by monitoring the piracy team releases and validating when
a cracked version of the software becomes available.
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Quantify the Time to Crack™ by measuring the revenue loss associated with
piracy and build the ROI for anti-piracy investments. The Time to Crack is Vi Labs
methodology that measures the point in time where the piracy teams make a new software
release available with licensing or software protection disabled.
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Create a process that continually improves anti-piracy technology by identifying
the tools and techniques used to crack license and software protection mechanisms
and then incorporating new countermeasures to deter them.
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Identify the linkage between those that sell pirated software and individuals
and specific piracy teams who crack software licensing and distribute these releases.
“Piracy of high-value software is enabled by expert piracy teams disabling embedded
license management functions using reverse engineering techniques. Our CodeArmor
technology prevents these threats, but cracking teams are constantly evolving their
tools and processes,” said Vic DeMarines, VP of Products at V.i. Labs. “In our experience,
ICG is the only piracy watch service that could effectively gather detailed intelligence
on the software piracy teams. By combining this service with our software protection
technology, we give software vendors an anti-piracy approach that easily justifies
the investment and continually improves itself over time.”
Availability and Pricing
V.i. Labs will package the ICG service within its CodeArmor Anti-piracy solution
and offer its customers an integrated and closed loop solution. The service will
include an initial threat analysis for $12,000 as well as a Piracy Intelligence
and Reporting service that customers can purchase on a quarterly basis.
About Internet Crimes Group, Inc.
ICG is the premier provider of Internet intelligence and threat management solutions
to Global 2,500 companies and leading law firms. Our mission is to provide global,
integrated solutions to all corporate stakeholders through both our outstanding
iThreat® Solution services and our iThreat® Platform and Portal. ICG combines proprietary
threat intelligence with technology and methodologies for threat monitoring, analysis
and reporting. ICG is privately held with its headquarters in Princeton, NJ. For
more information please visit www.icginc.com.
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.
©2007 V.i. Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. V.i. Labs, CodeArmor and the
V.i. Labs logo, are trademarks of V.i. Laboratories, Inc. All other product and
brand names herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Contacts:
Victor DeMarines
V.i. Laboratories, Inc.
781.398.3400
vdemarines[at]vilabs.com
Gene Carozza/Jason O'Keefe
PAN Communications
978.474.1900
vilaboratories[at]pancomm.com