V.i. Labs Announces CodeArmor Software Protection Solution and Customer Adoption; Solution Deployed and in Use by Leading Provider of Detection Equipment to Protect Intellectual Property.

WALTHAM, Mass. -- V.i. Laboratories, Inc., a provider of software protection solutions for securing high value and mission critical applications, announced today the general availability of CodeArmor(TM) version 2.0. CodeArmor enables application providers, enterprises and government agencies to prevent piracy and theft of intellectual property resident within their software applications.

The company also announced that CodeArmor has been deployed by a leading provider of detection equipment to protect highly sensitive algorithms embedded within their detection systems which are currently deployed worldwide. The systems are in use by governments and corporations around the world to combat terrorism, drug and weapons smuggling, illegal immigration, and trade fraud.

Based on patent-pending technology, CodeArmor is an out-of-the-box software protection solution that combines secure execution monitoring and intrusion prevention to provide comprehensive security. CodeArmor hardens and protects applications in their executable form -- virtually eliminating the need for software development resources or impacting product time to market. Once protected, applications are persistently secured against piracy, tampering, misuse and theft wherever they're deployed.

"Organizations need a comprehensive set of countermeasures to actively guard against piracy cracks and the theft of intellectual property resident within their software applications," said Dr. David Pensak, founder and CTO of V.i. Labs. "However, many software vendors are reluctant to implement solutions that require source code modification or complex security infrastructure. CodeArmor 2.0 combines ease of use with strong security, making it a unique solution for protecting high value and mission critical applications wherever they're deployed."

Version 2.0 features a simple user interface for configuring the appropriate level of software protection for an application as well as enhanced countermeasures to detect and combat reverse engineering threats. Software reverse engineering is the process of deconstructing an existing application to recover details about its design and implementation. This process is commonly used to pirate software, steal sensitive IP and develop malicious software.

Said a customer company spokesperson, under condition of anonymity due to security concerns: "We sell our detection systems into foreign markets where there is lax enforcement of intellectual property laws and an ongoing threat that our sensitive source code will be stolen and reverse engineered. We examined a number of alternative solutions to harden our software application but many required extensive services or source code modification. We chose CodeArmor because it delivered the security we needed without impacting our development resources or product functionality."

CodeArmor version 2.0 includes the following new features:

--Graphical user interface for configuring software protection. Organizations can easily apply protection based on the threat level to their applications. Each progressive threat level adds additional anti-reverse engineering, anti-debugging and tamper deterrents to the software application.

--Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support. AES is a block cipher adopted as an encryption standard by the U.S. government. CodeArmor can now use AES to provide a strong defense against reverse engineering and malicious tampering of applications.

--Advanced countermeasures to prevent reverse engineering. CodeArmor 2.0 offers additional capabilities to obfuscate where application functions are decrypted in memory to further deter reverse engineering threats.

--CodeArmor Application Extension Software Development Kit (SDK). CodeArmor 2.0 includes a SDK that lets organizations extend authorization, authentication, and encryption to existing applications without source code changes. The SDK allows software publishers and on-line distributors to integrate CodeArmor's protection into their existing authorization and software DRM framework. Organizations can use these extensions to bind their applications to specific machines and integrate them with software DRM systems.

Availability and Pricing

CodeArmor 2.0 is available immediately. Pricing starts at $18,500 for an enterprise deployment. Independent software vendors can take advantage of custom pricing structures that consist of a one-time license fee and ongoing royalty payments.

About V.i. Laboratories

V.i. Laboratories provides application security solutions that protect against the misappropriation and theft of intellectual property resident in software applications. Through V.i. Laboratories' patent-pending technology, software vendors, enterprise organizations and government agencies are able to easily secure their applications against the threats of piracy, tampering and theft, independent of where the applications are distributed. V.i. Laboratories is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. For more information please visit www.vilabs.com.