Bethesda, MD (openPR) 8 September 2010

Arxan Technologies ®, today a leading provider of software security solutions to protect applications from attacks in distributed or untrusted environments announced the availability of EnsureITâ? ¢ for Android, a robust software protection product that secures mobile Androidâ? ¢ applications against reverse engineering or manipulation for unauthorized access, piracy and paste exploits.

Given the popularity of the Android platform (more than 100,000 applications now available for popular mobile devices), the open-source nature and the rapid worldwide dissemination of Android applications for Android EnsureIT addresses the enormous demand for digital content and protection of intellectual property (IP). Whether from Google? S Android Market Android or other download sites, has intensified the focus on security for Android applications. Recent media reports, for example, have warned against seemingly legitimate Android applications when downloaded, performed in the theft of private user information.

Google recently recommended that Android developers ensure their applications, as the Android Market licensing server interface. Tim Bray, from Google? S Android Developer Evangelist advises the developer to hide code in order to raise the bar against hackers and pirates. â? The attacks Wea? have seen so far are all on applications that failed to conceal their code, a practice we strongly recommend that â? Bray said. Bray suggests that â? Obfuscatingâ? licensing servera? s sample makes it difficult for hackers authentication code to find the pieces of code to bypass the authentication.

EnsureIT for Android automated functions to defend, to recognize and react skills through the use of different security techniques (so-called guards) as concealment, checksum, repair and anti-debug directly in the software code of each application for Defense in-depth. These layers protect the many species per ¬ Guard enables the control, confidence and tamper protection for the application.

â? The open-source software marketplace for Android application development underscores a vital need to build in IP protection, anti-piracy and anti-tampering measures in Android applications to secure the distribution and integrity of the new revenue streams, â? Said Kevin Morgan, Chief Technology Officer of Arxan. â? EnsureIT Arxanâ builds for Android? s award-winning application to authenticate hardening technology to conceal and the integrity of the code with a variety of proven techniques for mobile and embedded security applications.â?

particular EnsureIT provides for Android application hardship for Android applications that call in the virtual machine Dalvik and run in native code on the Android Native Development Kit (NDK). The NDK is used to increase native code languages like C and C + + implement in a way that promotes efficiency and speed by reusing existing code.

main features of EnsureIT for Android include:

Tunable security for mobile platforms and their application offerings
Layered network of protection, with no single point of failure
Self-healing in case of attack by the restoration of protection
Requires no source code changes
Support for a wide range of emulators and devices
Support for the entire Google Android development platform and other platforms
Support for the ARM processor
To get a better insight on Android security challenges, Morgan will host the webinar â Android & Security:? Can it Get Along â? on 8 September at 11.30 clock ET.

EnsureIT and GuardIT ® Arxan offers a cross-platform software protection suite for desktop, server and embedded environments provides a complete portfolio of security solutions that use multiple attack vectors target. The comprehensive software security portfolio enables application providers with a single provider to meet their security. Arxanâ? Application hardening technology solutions for various operating systems, platforms and languages, including Linux, Windows, Mac OS X,. NET, Java, Mac PowerPC, ARM and others are available.

For further information on Arxanâ? s EnsureIT or Arxanâ? Application hardening products, please call 301-968-4290 or e-mail info (at) arxan (dot) com.

About Arxan Technologies

Arxan Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of software security solutions to protect applications from attacks in distributed and untrusted environments. We harden applications against tampering and reverse engineering for the unauthorized use, piracy and theft of intellectual property. Our advanced software protection solutions secure ISV, providersâ digital media? and enterprise applications proactively defend the integrity of the code and business models. We defend, detect, alert and react to attacks through a threat-based, customizable approach that works without source code. Proven, robust and resilient, Arxanâ? S offerings support a wide range of applications needs protection from commercial software for military security. Founded in 2001, Arxan Technologies has offices in Bethesda, MD, San Francisco, CA and West Lafayette, IN. For more information, please visit www.arxan.com.

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