V.i. Labs

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V.i. Labs V.i. Labs (officially “V.i. Laboratories, Inc.”) is a privately-held anti-piracy and software protection company based in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

Founded in 2002 by Dr. David Pensak, V.i. Labs provides anti-piracy and anti-tampering products designed to protect the intellectual property found in high-value and business-critical software applications, including products used for Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), and Computer-Aided Design (CAD).

Products

V.i. Labs’ patented CodeArmor® platform allows software vendors, embedded system providers and enterprise organizations to harden their applications against theft, gain business intelligence into emerging markets, measure unlicensed use of their software, uncover new revenue streams and increase sales.

Piracy Business Intelligence

CodeArmor Intelligence (August 2008) allows software providers to build threat detection and reporting functions into their applications, centrally collect and manage data corresponding to the threats, and centrally report on infringements for future action.

The data is available to multiple parties within the software provider’s organization, such as legal, product management, sales and other compliance representatives through the product’s integration with Salesforce.com.

Alternatively, the Salesforce.com APIs and partner infrastructure allow information to be directly integrated with other internal CRM systems such as Seibel, SAP, and Oracle.

In January 2009, V.i. Labs announced CodeArmor Intelligence support for Red Hat Linux.

Software Protection

CodeArmor is an automated security product designed to protect applications without requiring source code modifications or design changes. It utilizes a layered approach of decryption, anti-debugging, anti-tampering, and secure run-time execution monitoring to protect against tampering and theft.

The product hardens and protects applications in their executable form, eliminating the need for software development resources or impacting product-time-to-market. Once protected, applications are persistently secured against piracy, tampering, misuse or theft wherever they’re deployed.

CodeArmor for Software Protection automatically secures applications without requiring source code modifications, functionality changes, or impacting product development resources. In May 2008, the United States Patent and Trademark Office granted the company a patent encompassing V.i. Labs’ software protection technology used in its CodeArmor product, Patent No. US 7,370,319, entitled “System and Method for Regulating Execution of Computer Software.”

The technology delivers a layered protection approach that combines Just-In-Time (JIT) code decryption, secure execution monitoring, and comprehensive threat prevention capabilities to protect applications against piracy, code theft and malicious tampering.

The CodeArmor software protection platform supports native Microsoft Windows, Microsoft .NET (March 2007), and mixed mode (native and .NET code) applications. It provides organizations with an automated means to configure security settings, integrate protection processing into the software build process, and embed anti-reverse engineering countermeasures into existing application code without source code modification.

Partnerships

Microsoft V.i. Labs is a member of the Microsoft Windows Embedded Partner program, Microsoft Empower ISV Program, Visual Studio Industry Partners (VSIP) program, and participates in Microsoft Technology Adoption Programs.

Fortify Software V.i. Labs' CodeArmor product extends Fortify's Source Code Analysis to enable developer organizations to apply code protection to applications after code analysis and development are complete.

StrikeIron V.i. Labs’ partnership with StrikeIron enables customers to automate the piracy use data captured through V.i. Labs’ CodeArmor® Intelligence.

Internet Crimes Group The Internet Crimes Group provides business and litigation services to identify, analyze, and act against organizations and individuals that threaten them.

Riverside Research Group V.i. Labs works with Riverside Research Institute, Inc. (RRI) for regular, independent testing of CodeArmor®, support for customer red team analysis, and identification of new protection approaches based on its experience in analyzing new malware protection techniques.

Reprise Software V.i. Labs and Reprise Software have layered CodeArmor software protection with Reprise License Management (RLM) to address binary patching threats faced by ISVs.

Uniloc Through its partnership with Uniloc, V.i. Labs integrated its CodeArmor software protection product with Uniloc’s patented device locking activation technology, softANCHOR™.

Nalpeiron Nalpeiron offers CodeArmor to its customers to provide protection from software piracy and secure their valuable Intellectual Property resident within their Microsoft .NET applications.

Industry Affiliations

Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) The Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) is the principal trade association for the software and digital content industry. SIIA provides global services in government relations, business development, corporate education and intellectual property protection to more than 1000 leading software and information companies.

Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) The EDA Consortium is an international association of companies that provide tools and services that enable engineers to create the world's electronic products. EDA is the critical technology used to design electronics for the communications, computer, space technology, medical and industrial equipment and consumer electronics markets among others.

Funding

• Series A – Rockford Capital (June 2006)
• Series B – Ascent Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners – $8 million (November 2007)
• Expanded Series B – Ascent Venture Partners, Core Capital Partners – $4 million (October 2008)