Copy Protection
Our long term experience in the Application Security field can help you by offering the right knowledge and the experience for either creating your custom, home-brew protection or by integrating and extending properly to its best a commercial protection in your software.
Example Applications
| Binary Application Protection | We are specialized in advanced research and development of computer security software. IITAC offers innovative, one of a kind, capabilities and solutions that seamlessly integrate into its customer’s production processes and operations. |
| Copy Protection Development | To ensure you get paid for every software copy being used, IITAC supports your copy protection efforts. This creates a robust link between the software application and the protection preventing software piracy and ensuring authorized use of the software. |
| Game Security | IITAC members are experienced in large-scale copy protection analysis, auditing and exploitation: we can help you to locate any critical weakness in your game software as well as its protection. We may offer advice and consultancy to strengthen your game security for your safeguarding your DRM policies and the overall security of your customers. |
| Digital Rights Management | DRM technologies can be used for more nefarious purposes such as infringing on privacy, personal profiling, price discrimination based on personally-identifiable information and stymieing the development of open source software. IITAC can offer you an unique mix of DRM competence, as we are experienced into both DRM auditing and its creation. |
| Crackz and Warez Analysis & Forensics | We can perform extended analysis on the impact of illegal distributed copies of your software, and our highly trained investigators can help by providing clear reports for your investigation or attorney requirements. Additionally, we can perform auditing of the pirated copies of your software in order to determine the methodologies utilised by pirates for bypassing your protection. |
Detailed Information
In the absence of copy protection, media are easy to copy in their entirety using a machine (as opposed to photocopying each page of a book). This results in a situation where consumers can easily make copies of the items to give to their friends, a practice known as “casual copying”. This practice reduces the number of people in the market who lack the product. Copy protection is most commonly found on DVDs, computer software discs, video game discs and cartridges, and more recently, some audio CDs. Companies that choose to publish works under copy protection do so because they believe that the added expense of implementing the copy protection will be offset by even greater increases in revenue by creating a greater scarcity of casually copied media.
For software publishers, a method of copy protection is to write the software so that it requires some evidence from the user that they have actually purchased the software. Unfortunately, it is well known that without the proper experience it is impossible to create protections capable of lasting more than few minutes in the hand of an experienced cracker.
Another method is to purchase a ready-made protector, and use it to protect the software. Let alone the choice of the right protection that truly suits your needs, very often such commercial protectors are not used properly nor integrated with a customized layer of additional defence due to a lack of Software Security expertise in the personnel devoted to protect the application. Again, failing to fulfil such requirements leads to an an early, easy crack available in the black market.
Our long term experience in the Application Security field can help you by offering the right knowledge and the experience for either creating your custom, home-brew protection or by integrating and extending properly to its best a commercial protection in your software.