Software Business
Taking the Pain Out of Software Evaluations --What you can do to enhance the software evaluation phase
The convergence of managed services, web-based software delivery models and managed code hold a promise to move the software evaluation process from "expensive liability" to "pivotal success factor" by shortening the sales cycle and increasing ISV win rates.

IT Planner: Five Steps to Secure Development
Security should be top of mind before, during, and after the development process. Experts agree that although absolute application security is nearly impossible, there are key steps you should take to mitigate risk.

RedmondDeveloper News
Third-Party Perils

Farming out pieces of an in-house app for development by third parties may make sense when time and money are short. But dev shops working with outside firms should take steps to protect the intellectual property contained in their code, security experts and vendors warn.

Dr. Dobb's Portal
Enhanced Dotfuscator CE for Visual Studio 2003 and 2005

The integrated obfuscation tool previously announced for Visual Studio 2008 is now available to users of VS2003 and VS2005.

Computerworld
The security world according to vendor surveys

PreEmptive Solutions' Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing gives advice regarding vendor surveys.

SSWUG.ORG
TechEd Part 3: SQL Server Today and Tomorrow

Hints at Company's plans for software instrumentation.

SD Times
PreEmptive Solutions Named to SD Times 100

Company's Flagship Obfuscation Product Recognized by Leading Software Development Publication.

Visual Studio Magazine
Preemptive Solutions Receives 2007 Readers' Choice Award

Dotfuscator Product Honored in the 'Security and Copy Protection' Category.

Dr. Dobb's Portal
Obfuscating for Prevention and Detection

Sebastian Holst, of PreEmptive Solutions, explains tamper detection and some other new features in Dotfuscator 4.1, an obfuscation tool for .NET.

Wall Street & Technology
Do You Need to Obfuscate?

Recommends obfuscation for Wall Street firms that share applications with partners and customers.

RedmondDeveloper News
Dotfuscator 4.0: Sounding the Alarm

Dotfuscator 4.0 provides tamper detection for obfuscated code.

American Scientist
Neatness Counts

Messy computer code is normally frowned on-but not always

Bank Technology News
Rights of Passage

Financial services application developers, worried about the alteration of source code through reverse engineering, can deploy a new whistleblower technology from PreEmptive Solutions that lets applications self-diagnose any effects of tampering.

RedmondDeveloper News
Obfuscation: Protecting the Source

A tech brief on how to protect your source code from reverse engineering.

RedmondMag.com
Six Flaws Fixed

Visual Studio to come with code obfuscation tool Dotfuscator.

DatamonitorComputerwire

PreEmptive Adds Service Targeting Software Tampering in DatamonitorComputerwire.

Dark Reading

PreEmptive Monitors Apps in Dark Reading

The Code Project

SO-signal^TM : Detective control to better monitor, manage, and protect your applications and your business in The Code Project.

cm//crossroads

PreEmptive Solutions Launches SO-Signal in cm//crossroads.

DevX

Visual Studio Developers Stay One Step Ahead with Newly-Released Tamper Notification and Monitoring Solutions in DevX.com.

SDTimes

PreEmptive Goes On The Offensive in SDTimes

SearchAppSecurity

Detect application tampering with new PreEmptive tool in SearchAppSecurity.com.

PreEmptive aims to change the perception that obfuscators are only name-mangling tools for source code.

Dotfuscator has been selected as the winner of the Security & Copy Protection category in the 2006 Visual Studio Magazine Readers' Choice Awards.

Dotfuscator has been selected as the winner of the Security Tool category in the 2006 asp.netPRO Readers' Choice Awards.

Organizations are becoming increasing aware of the importance of making security part of the entire application development life cycle. In step with this trend, PreEmptive Solutions now wants to make a security technique -- obfuscation -- part of the entire life cycle as well.

PreEmptive's DashO for Java and Dotfuscator for .NET aim to strengthen applications with capabilities such as encryption to make them difficult to decompile and thus, exploit.

The Euclid-based company makes software that scrambles computer code to keep anyone from mimicking a program. Microsoft thought enough of PreEmptive's product that it struck a deal to include a scaled-down version in one of its popular programming kits.

A free version of PreEmptive's Dotfuscator software will be included in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2005, due for release early next year. Visual Studio is used for writing software applications for Microsoft's .Net program, which links together computers via the Internet. The alliance should help PreEmptive sell copies of its Dotfuscator Professional Edition, which is priced from $1,495. Dotfuscator hides software code from hackers, and also helps software developers streamline their .Net applications to make them faster and more efficient.

Code-cloaking experts PreEmptive Solutions on Monday announced an extended partnership with Microsoft to ship its technology inside Visual Studio 2005.

PreEmptive Solution was recognized as a winner of the 2004 NorTech Innovation Awards. The annual awards event recognizes individuals, companies and non-profit organizations that have created, developed and successfully implemented original ideas. The awards are sponsored by the Northeast Ohio Technology Coalition.

A prudent rule of thumb is to make obfuscation as identifiable a part of your software development process as is analysis, design, coding, and testing. If you can't afford to throw away your company's competitive, intellectual property then you will want to obfuscate your assemblies before shipping them. Dotfuscator Professional is a slick proposition.

Dotfuscator received a Visual Studio Magazine Readers Choice Award in the "Security & Copy Protection" category during Fawcette Technical Publication's VSLive! 2004 San Francisco conference.

First Runner-up in the "Best .NET Profilers, Optimizers, Decompilers, and Obfuscators" category.

The Third Annual People's Choice Awards recognizes the best products and companies in the Security industry.

"If .NET is Such a Security Nightmare (It Is), Why Isn't Everybody Fighting to Own the Obvious and Fairly Simple Solution?"

"With new platforms come new opportunities - and new challenges. I've talked about the opportunities of .NET often enough. Now it's time to look at one of the challenges: protecting your intellectual property."

Intellectual property, if stolen, "is a genie that can't be put back in the bottle," says Day. Currently, she says, "there is really no law to protect American companies' intellectual property."

PreEmptive Solutions announces Dotfuscator Professional 2.0 at the Microsoft PDC show in Los Angeles.

One of the advantages of the .NET architecture is that assemblies built with it contain lots of useful information that can be recovered using ILDASM, the intermediate language disassembler. A side effect, though, is that someone with access to your binaries can recover a good approximation of the original source code. Here the authors present program obfuscation as a way to deter reverse engineering. In addition, they discuss the different types of obfuscation technologies available and demonstrate the new obfuscation tool that is included in Visual Studio .NET 2003.

PreEmptive Solutions is a privately held company that develops, markets, and implements code security and size reduction solutions. PreEmptive's DashO for Java and Dotfuscator for .NET tools help protect applications from reverse engineering and make them smaller and more efficient. Many fortune 1000 companies use our products and we hold some key patents in the most advanced obfuscation techniques available today.

The Enterprise Code Security Solution from PreEmptive Solutions combines services and the company's two products for scrambling Java and .NET code in order to protect it from hackers who seek to steal application source code.

"Many companies do not realize the vulnerabilities associated with unobfuscated code," says Gabriel Torok, president of PreEmptive. "Inside the application code is a lot of intellectual property. Security protects the company's assets and its IP is part of the assets. Companies think about protecting their data but not necessarily the applications surrounding the data."

SD Times Magazine recognizes PreEmptive as a leader and innovator that creates development tools which compress and obfuscate binaries and are essential for ISVs.

"The SD Times 100 looked for companies which set a direction that developers and the industry followed in 2002" said Alan Zeichick, editor-in-chief of SD Times. "When choosing the SD Times 100, we carefully considered each company's offerings and reputation, as well as the attention and conversation we've heard around the company and its products and technologies, as a sign of leadership within the industry."

The Second Annual People's Choice Awards recognizes the best products and companies in our industry. Awards offered by other media companies that are suppose to honor the best products in our industry are often said to be awarded to the biggest advertisers. For the MSD2D awards, we feel that the only relevant vote is from the actual users. This makes the People's Choice award a far more coveted trophy.

In today's world of interconnected networks Secure it, or lose it. We don't have the luxury of running insecure networks or exposing insecure data. Unfortunately, it's often our task to sell that data and try to prevent those from seeing it to profit from our work. That's where encryption, hashing, and obfuscation come in. This article hopes to clear up some misconception in the industry as to how these technologies work and how they relate to each other.

Prevent customers from stealing your algorithms, and crackers from changing your code, with PreEmptive Solutions Dotfuscator in VS.NET and 2003. Let's take a look at some of the ingenious techniques it uses to mask your programs intent.

PreEmptive Solutions released Dotfuscator Professional Edition 1.2, which can compact and protect .NET applications.

Another nice add-on to VS.NET 2003 is a community edition of the PreEmptive Solutions Dotfuscator product, which allows you to recompile your shipping products to an encrypted and transformed version of the IL that is nearly impervious to reverse engineering.

PreEmptive Solutions released Dotfuscator Professional Edition 1.2, another developer tool tied to the .Net Framework. Dotfuscator provides tools for trimming code size, encrypting code strings, and for protecting code against reverse engineering by hackers using disassemblers to pull a program and sniff for vulnerabilities.

In conjunction with PreEmptive Solutions, of Euclid, Ohio, Microsoft is shipping an obfuscation product for Visual Studio .Net called Dotfuscator. "It enables developers to scramble or encrypt their code," Rudder said. It also shrinks the code, for mobile applications, he added.