Dotfuscator Professional 4.31 is Available Now

August 23, 2017 3061 Views Sebastian Holst

We have just released Dotfuscator Professional 4.31 and it’s available for immediate download (both for clients and as a free evaluation).

Dotfuscator Professional 4.31

Extends its application protection to new development communities for the very first time.

Support is now available for:

.NET Core 2.0 (released last week by Microsoft) and
The Unity game engine. Supported app platforms include PC, Mac, Linux Standalone, Android, and Windows Store (UWP). Supported scripting back-ends include.NET and Mono.

Improves application protection and DevOps automation for existing development communities

Dotfuscator now offers:

Upgraded processing of Xamarin code and XAML. Smarter parsing and analysis dramatically reduces the number of explicit renaming exclusions required.
Benefits include simplified configuration, enhanced renaming protection, and faster configuration, testing, and build times.
Simplified configuration of runtime controls such as anti-tamper, anti-debug, and auto-expiry. One notable example is the ability to target multiple methods (locations within code) to inject a single control.
Benefits include making anti-debug, anti-tamper, etc. more difficult to defeat, faster app hardening configuration, and simplified audit and testing functions.

Enhances existing technology to better combat the current state-of-the-art in reverse engineering, tampering, and debugging technologies. This release of Dotfuscator is the latest salvo in our continuing mission to keep you one step ahead of the bad actors looking to subvert your applications and compromise your data.

Visit the Dotfuscator download page and the Dotfuscator Professional change log for access to this latest software, a comprehensive list of the latest features and fixes, and a more detailed description of the features introduced here.

Effectively Implementing App Protection

Development’s Journey to Effectively Implementing App Protection

Because data is created, accessed, and changed through applications, hardening and shielding your applications is a key component to protecting your data. Adding application protection to your secure software development lifecycle will make it more difficult for people and machines to exploit them. But, what are the factors to consider when thinking about application risk? Effective application risk management is a sustained, consistent practice and technology selection and implementation is a specialized discipline within that practice. The initial steps below offer a roadmap to selecting and implementing application hardening and shielding as a part of a broader application risk management program.

The full Infographic in pdf form is available here.

Does app have intellectual property?

Does app gate access to value?

Does app access private information?

Is the app subject to regulation?

Does app run in an untrusted environment?

“Software is eating the world.” The now-famous quote by technology expert Marc Andreessen was relevant in 2011 but seems downright prophetic in 2018 — the rise of web-based, mobile and IoT applications have created a market both massive and ever-changing. Companies know that simply staying competitive requires cutting-edge apps that both streamline the user experience and provide a steady flow of actionable data. But malicious actors also recognize the value of applications — and will do anything they can to compromise, infiltrate or damage business app networks.

It gets worse: According to the Center for Internet Security, “malspam” threats — unsolicited emails that contain malicious links or attachments — remain the number one attack vector for cybercriminals. Why? Because despite their simplicity, these attacks succeed. As noted by SC Magazine, meanwhile, 80 percent of IoT applications still aren’t tested for security vulnerabilities.

I just read the Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2018.

Forrester reminds us all that “Risk and compliance management is more important than ever, thanks to the increasingly intangible nature of business value and the growing risk of violating customer trust.”

IT security is a hot topic, and no wonder — major healthcare, finance and government breaches have all made headlines in recent months prompting both federal agencies and compliance organizations to draft new security standards. As noted by Tech Target, regulations under Sarbanes-Oxley, PCI-DSS and HIPAA all lay out clear expectations for companies when it comes to protecting network assets, personal data and critical infrastructure.

Software, meanwhile, has historically escaped the reach of these regulations, largely thanks to the rapid uptake of mobile and web-based applications: The sheer number and type of cloud-enabled offerings and now IoT-connected software made it difficult for governing bodies and compliance agencies to define meaningful standards that improved overall security. But, just as cloud computing went through a “wild west” period of rapid expansion followed by increasing scrutiny and regulation, software and application development is now on the receiving end of emerging security regulations.

Preventing Privilege Escalation in mobile payment apps (PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines Section 4.3)

Regulators, standards bodies and IT auditors have become increasingly likely to recommend an absolute prohibition of rooted Android devices in production environments. As the 2017 PCI Mobile Payment Acceptance Security Guidelines state, “Bypassing permissions can allow untrusted security decisions to be made, thus increasing the number of possible attack vectors.”

It is only natural that the apps themselves rise up to act as a ubiquitous governance, risk, and compliance management layer – preventing, detecting, responding, and reporting on threats - including those posed by unauthorized rooted devices.

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