PreEmptive Solutions Lauches SO-Signal , Breakthrough Application

SO-Signal offers application developers and enterprises unprecedented visibility into application adoption, usage and security.

 San Francisco, CA - Dec. 5, 2006

PreEmptive Solutions, suppliers of the leading Enterprise Obfuscation Solution for the Microsoft .NET environment and Java, announced today at The OCEG IT Forum immediate availability of SO-Signal, a breakthrough application monitoring and tamper notification service.

SO-Signal extends one of the most widely deployed and trusted .NET application security tools, Dotfuscator ,  to allow any .NET application to self diagnose tampering and to communicate this information to users via a managed service, thereby delivering unprecedented transparency and assurance to both application publishers and consumers.

"SO-Signal is a seamless extension of Dotfuscator, the obfuscation solution currently distributed with Microsoft's Visual Studio," said Gabriel Torok, President of PreEmptive Solutions. "SO-Signal is truly a breakthrough application monitoring service in that it is the first to connect development best practices and developers' unique knowledge of the applications they build to end user operations management, application security and business performance. As a result, developers can now enable applications to self diagnose tampering and report runtime events with a precision that generic monitoring tools simply cannot match."

Specific features of SO-Signal include:

• Tamper notification: near-time detection of tampered application usage paired with a notification service enabling rapid response helps create the first of a new category of IT controls, providing unprecedented transparency into application usage and community behavior.

• Comprehensive adoption, usage and behavior monitoring to track application deployment, potential environmental issues and overall activity without the transmission of personally identifiable information.

• Opt-in and subscription models that enable both application publishers and consumers to monitor and manage many of the risks associated with today's complex runtime environments

• Immediate availability to all Dotfuscator users

• No programming required; SO-Signal is activated through the use of custom attributes and patented instrumentation technology

• Tight integration with Visual Studio and the next release of Microsoft's Operations Manager leveraging the infrastructure and best practices of both the development and operations management communities.

Access to SO-Signal is available immediately to any licensed Dotfuscator user, including those using the Community Edition distributed with Visual Studio. Subscriptions to the runtime information and the tamper notification service start at $900 USD per year.

"SO-Signal is the first solution to integrate the development lifecycle with operations management, one of the first to leverage both Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) technologies and the first to offer IT controls that serve both application publisher and enterprise consumer in their respective efforts to advance application security, effectively manage risk and improve business performance," said Sebastian Holst, SVP at PreEmptive Solutions and co-chair of this year's OCEG IT Forum. "The OCEG IT Forum focuses on the role of technology in effective governance, risk and compliance management programs and, as such, serves as the ideal setting to announce this new category of IT control."

Sample screen shot of a SO-Signal dashboard

For more information, to review a white paper on SO-Signal or to evaluate SO-Signal today, email solutions@preemptive.com.

About PreEmptive Solutions
PreEmptive Solutions are the providers of the Dotfuscator and DashO obfuscation families and the SO-Signal application monitoring and tamper notification service. With over 3,000 corporate clients, 30,000 registered installations in 100+ countries and inclusion with Microsoft's 6,000,000+ Visual Studio seats, PreEmptive Solutions is the undisputed obfuscation market leader and the clear choice for every organization that is serious about source code protection, application security and IT governance. To learn more, email solutions@preemptive.com or call +1 216 732 5895.