Advantech, the leading global ePlatform services provider, today announced its unique embedded software management tool—Software Protection Utility. An embedded application is the most important entity for a system integrator, within it contains valuable intellectual property, design knowledge and innovation, but unfortunately it is also too easy to copy! An unscrupulous competitor only needs to purchase one system from the market to copy the entire embedded application and run it on a similar hardware platform—bang!—there goes your exclusive market advantage.
Advantech Embedded Core Services developed a Software Protection utility which provides robust security functions for customers to secure their application data within the embedded BIOS. We've designed three unique Security ID functions inside the BIOS, consisting of Board ID, Vendor ID, and Customer ID. Security ID is a unique string defined by the customer and encrypted using hash function SHA-1. The system Integrators' embedded application can then access the Security ID by calling the Advantech Application Programming Interface (API), and if the Security IDs are not correct, the application will stop executing and send a message over the LAN for further action depending on customers' application setup—so security is assured!
For more details, please go to the Software Protection product page at: http://www.advantech.com.tw/products/Embedded-Software/sub_1-2JKJ9E.aspx
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