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Intellectual Property Protection: To Patent or not to Patent...
Now that we have your attention, let's leave the decision to patent up to legal teams and those who wear suites and ties. Irrespective of that decision is the amount of protection one affords to their source code. The key to source code protection is not in patenting, that placed your source in the public domain, but to obscure it so it never makes into the public domain. Source code protection should be compared to trade secrets. If no one knows how or what you are doing in the first place, you do not have to worry about people stealing it.
Obfuscation does just that. Obscures the source and yet allows you to freely distribute your product. Is it impenetrable, no. The goal is to make the cost of reverse engineering exceed purchase or development.
Obfuscation works to transform programs in such a way as to not affect what the program does while at the same time impede reverse-engineering efforts. In a nutshell, obfuscating transforms have a goal of masking relationships that exist between the compiled and source code versions of the code.
PreEmptive Solution's product line accomplishes obfuscation in layers. Here are just a few of the ways we protect what is critical to your business:
- Overload Induction
- Enhanced Overload Induction
- Control Flow Obfuscation
- String Encryption
- Software Watermarking
In addition to protecting your intellectual property, check our out Tamper Detection that allow you to implement your source code to let you know that someone is tampering with it.