The availability of its Yellow Team Services (YTS) has been announced today by a leading provider of application hardening solutions, designed to protect software intellectual property (IP) from tampering and theft, Arxan Technologies. To understand the nature and magnitude of software products being subject to piracy and tampering, Arxan's Yellow Team experts will partner with software-driven businesses. For comprehensive application hardening solutions, Arxan's YTS completes its portfolio of software protection offerings.

In response to market demands, Yellow Team engagements begin with a complimentary Cracked Software Investigation (CSI) report. Along with products that where counterfeit versions are being sold and how freely they are shared on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, Arxan's dedicated CSI team uncovers products which may have been cracked. The Yellow Team program provides software producers with the ability to:

    * Assess their damage and determine what IP is at risk through the CSI report;
    * Determine the reason behind their software exposure by uncovering where the weak links or attack threats may exist;
    * To plot a solution to defend software product(s) and maximize revenues, provide professional security engineering experts.

Anti-Piracy Committee Chairman, Electronic Design Automation Consortium, Scott Baeder, stated: "The software industry has struggled with code protection for a long time, but organizations no longer need to accept that it's simply a cost of doing business." He added: "Since software developers are focused on delivering to release schedules, they sometimes lack the dedicated resources or time to efficiently research the source and extent of their software risk. Arxan's YTS allows these companies to leverage pre-packaged groundwork and proceed with relevant caution with regards to their software strategy."

Starting with a CSI, Arxan's Yellow Team Services are offered at multiple levels, and are complementary to its award-winning software protection product, GuardIT ®. GuardIT is a proven commercial protection product for both managed and native code designed to meet the business demand for software application protection. The GuardIT family includes GuardIT for Linux, GuardIT for Windows and GuardIT for .NET, and all GuardIT offerings feature automated, easy to use, yet customizable protection across desktop, embedded and server software applications.