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"Bricking" in software license management translates into the ability to lock down a license if an appropriate or illegal use of the software is detected.

VDMA Product Piracy Study 2018 indicates that, while the overall scale of damage remains unchanged, damages have worsened in the last two years.

The U.S. points to China for rampant IP theft, which they believe has significantly weakened U.S. companies’ position in the global market.

Modern software monetization ensures customers use the services they pay for while taking advantage of cloud adoption and real-time analytics tools.

Since the IP of today’s of most medical equipment is encapsulated in embedded software, the industry is ripe for attack.

Established due diligence best practices provide a roadmap to ensure a successful migration to a modern, flexible and robust licensing system.

With just a few shopping days left before Christmas, the retail frenzy is at its height.

Industrie 4.0, a.k.a. the fourth industrial revolution, is representative of the global strategic initiative to revolutionize industry by integrating digital automation, interoperability and advanced data exchange into manufacturing technologies.

Software entrepreneurs who are developing their first time application have the luxury of building-in their software licensing and protection solution from the outset.

Endpoint Security for a rail system: another Industrial internet system success story.

The Industrial Internet Consortium held an interesting TweetChat last week in preparation for their Security event held on Tuesday, November 4 in NYC.

Whether it be Stuxnet or an iPhone virus, it is people who are the cause for trouble.

We’ve all seen the disturbing software piracy statistics released by BSA | The Software Alliance in their Global Software Survey.

The Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) recently released the first version of a document entitled "Industrial Internet Reference Architecture Technical Report".

A recent report released by the Economist Intelligence Unit entitled Long-term Macroeconomic Forecasts: Key trends to 2050 highlighted some of the emerging economic issues expected to shape global business in the coming decades.

Attackers — in ever greater numbers and with increasing sophistication — see, in the growing promise of our tech-connected world, opportunities to steal or cause major disruption or destruction by exploiting vulnerabilities.

I recently read an interesting article in Engineering and Technology Magazine, entitled ‘Immature’ Internet of Things Hackable with Primitive Methods.

ISVs today must address many questions in your product development and delivery strategies as the software licensing landscape has become increasingly complex.

By now, many of you have heard about the "BadUSB" exploit, where two security researchers at Security Research Labs demonstrated how they could perpetrate an attack on USB devices.

Adobe may have raised some eyebrows last year when they announced they were moving their packaged Creative Suite PC software to the cloud, but most industry analysts predicted this day was coming – it was just a matter of how soon.

We talk a lot about copy protection in this space but what I want to focus on today is what is meant by the phrase "secure software licensing."