Dotfuscator Professional 4.31 is Available Now

August 23, 2017 4996 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.

Is your Mobile App GDPR Compliant? Learn how to secure your App

Before I start, I would like to thank PreEmptive for inviting me to write a guest post.

I would like to start my blog with a discussion about the growing cyber threats all over the world. I assume readers are well aware of cyber threats and how they are addressed by people, process, and technology. The continuous planning and advancement of security in the cyber world including but not limited to applications is an interesting read. Here, in my blog, I would like to discuss how companies can support mobile application security for better and safer use of stored data.

On June 11, NIST released Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software Development Framework. While a solid piece of work in its own right, this document is noteworthy because it stands as one more proof point - in an already long list of proof points, that development processes, the developers themselves, and the organizations they belong to, ALL share some degree of responsibility (liability) for:

Untrusted Environments, Valuable Apps? Put the Protection in the App.

IT environments are evolving. Disappearing are the days of in-house, fixed-endpoint, limited access server stacks — replaced instead by a combination of private and public cloud solutions, mobile applications and IoT devices.

As noted by research firm IDC, public cloud spending now outpaces all other IT infrastructure with a growth rate topping 10 percent year-over-year, while Statista reports that users downloaded more than 178 billion apps in 2017 alone — and are on track to break 250 billion over the next few years.

What does this mean for organizations? That application environments are quickly moving beyond the purview of in-house IT, exposing both apps and network services to steadily growing risk. It creates a paradox: Companies can’t deny the benefits of third-party environments and application partnerships, but also can’t ignore the threat of app and data compromise or reverse-engineering and tampering.

In a recent developer survey, Xamarin.Android developers were 50% less likely to have included rooted device detection or anti-tamper prevention as their Java Android peers were. Yet, both sets of apps are being deployed through the same marketplaces onto the same devices and are governed by the same regulations (PCI, GDPR, HIPAA to name just a few that expect these kinds of controls).

Why are more Xamarin.Android apps going unprotected?

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with Sebastian Holst, PreEmptive’s Chief Strategy Officer, to talk about his most recent trip to Capitol Hill where the topic of the day was copyright protection for small businesses – and for development shops in particular.

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