V.i. Labs Taps Leading Anti-Malware Researcher to Boost Software Code and Intellectual Property Protection

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--V.i. Laboratories, Inc. (“V.i. Labs”), a provider of software protection solutions for securing high-value and mission-critical applications, will use 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.

Advances are being made on both sides of the malware battle. Anti-malware experts are developing innovative tools to reverse engineer protected malware, and malware writers are deploying new techniques to thwart these tools. To level the playing field for its customers, V.i. Labs will draw on RRI’s extensive experience in anti-malware research to further enhance CodeArmor’s software protection capabilities.

“Malware writers are adding increasingly sophisticated software protections to prevent security engineers from discovering their malicious intent,” said a senior member of the research staff at RRI. “By analyzing the state-of-the-art software protection in the latest malware, we can discover new techniques and strategies for protecting legitimate applications.”

Research indicates that the techniques that keep malware from being detected are advancing. In a 2007 report by Kaspersky Labs, more than 12 percent of new malware in 2006 contained new active countermeasures against security solutions – a 178 percent growth since 2002.

“More and more malware is using advanced protection techniques to defeat security solutions and anti-malware analysis tools,” said Victor DeMarines, vice president of Products at V.i. Labs. “By leveraging RRI’s expertise, we gain valuable insight into the evolving malware ‘arms race’ and further grow our own database of countermeasures used to protect applications from reverse engineering.”

About CodeArmor

CodeArmor is an out-of-the-box software protection solution that secures applications without requiring source code modifications, functionality changes, or complex security infrastructure. V.i. Labs’ patented technology automatically encrypts software at the function level and secures the application run-time environment. Once protected, applications are persistently secured against piracy, code theft and malicious tampering. Two different versions of CodeArmor are available to protect native Microsoft Windows and Microsoft .NET applications.

About RRI

RRI is an independent not-for-profit scientific institution with more than forty years experience in providing state-of-the-art technology and systems engineering solutions for strategic programs in the defense, intelligence, and biomedical sectors. RRI has unique expertise in software security and has a software security team dedicated to providing government and commercial entities with specialized software security support. The team has detailed knowledge of protection tools, techniques, and their implementation. They have also developed numerous specialized tools and attack techniques focusing on Reverse Engineering to evaluate the effectiveness of protection techniques and to perform Malware, Virus, and RootKit analysis. The team can identify and analyze intrusion software to characterize and/or neutralize the threat. For more information visit: www.rri-usa.org

About V.i. Laboratories (V.i. Labs)

V.i. Labs provides software protection solutions that protect against the misappropriation and theft of intellectual property resident in software applications. Through V.i. Labs’ patented technology, software vendors, embedded system providers, enterprise organizations and government agencies are able to easily secure their software against the threat of piracy, tampering and theft, independent of where the applications are distributed. V.i. Labs is privately held and is headquartered in Waltham, Mass. For more information please visit: www.vilabs.com.

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