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[ news_security_news ]V.i. Labs Dons Its CodeArmor
David Utter Staff Writer 2006-07-07  Security News RSS Feed
After picking up a first-round of funding from a group led by Rockford Capital, V.i. Labs is ready to ride the wave of software protection needs of application developers. I knew of V.i. Labs founder David Pensak by reputation before chatting with members of the company's leadership team. Pensak developed the Raptor Firewall, now owned by Symantec and distributed as their Enterprise Firewall product. For several years, I administrated that firewall, and even have certificates that claim I know a little bit about it. Aside from having to implement a kludgy workaround for moving Oracle traffic through it on 1520/tcp, I never had a problem with it. So I was interested to find out what his next company planned to accomplish. V.i. Labs will focus on application security, with its CodeArmor solutions. Company president and CEO Joe Noonan, and Vic DeMarines, director of product management and marketing, talked about the product in a phone interview. CodeArmor has intrusion detection in place to combat reverse engineering. This means that components protected by CodeArmor can't be cracked open with a debugger like CodeWarrior for reverse engineering. The CodeArmor approach hardens software, without requiring source code changes to integrate it. DeMarines noted the non-invasive nature of CodeArmor proved the biggest issue in developing the product. That effort has yielded a solution that can combat software piracy, already a multi-billion dollar drain on companies across the technology spectrum. It also protects against code theft, to safeguard developers from the types of espionage that have become more common threats to application builders. CodeArmor actively monitors the protected application at run-time, and ensures they are being executed in a secure environment. It uses persistent granular encryption at the application function level to fight efforts at reverse engineering. The product has been in beta testing with a couple of large companies, Noonan said. A product release for CodeArmor looks to be on schedule for a late August release. When I first saw the name V.i., I asked if someone at the company had chosen it to teach people how to properly pronounce the name of the venerable Unix vi editor. The truth was a little different. It seems Pensak had been enamored of the phrase "virgin image," a photography term referring to a pristine photo of a subject. Unfortunately, using that as a company name soon had the company's email messages running afoul of spam filters, which would junk emails with the word 'virgin' in them. Thus the change to V.i. instead. That's your security trivia for the day. --- Tags: V.i. Labs, CodeArmor Add to  Del.icio.us |  Digg |  Yahoo! My Web |  Furl
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About the Author: David Utter is a business and technology writer for SecurityProNews, WebProNews, and InternetFinancialNews. More news_security_news Articles Security News RSS Feed
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