Wibu-Systems Blog

The SD Association recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the microSD™ Card.

The intellectual property gained during the development of an ISV’s flagship software product most likely represents an investment in hundreds and hundreds of man hours. 

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

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

Faced with an increasingly complicated network environment, made only more complex by the addition of virtualization, cloud services and bring your own devices (BYOD), many of your customers are also struggling to keep track of their software assets, contracts, and entitlements.

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.

When describing software protection dongles in a 2007 article appearing in PC Magazine, John C. Dvorak, a well-respected (but self-described curmudgeon) and award winning columnist said, “The dongle was a mostly failed copy-protection device that came into existence in the 1980s. It was also a point of controversy…”

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."

Hackers are out there. So you can't take for granted--now or ever--that it won't happen to you.

Anytime you add a 3rd party component into your overall product stack you need to be thoughtful before you decide.