cybersecurity application security founded 2001 headquarters bethesda maryland usa number of locations usa 6 united kingdom 1 france 1 germany 1 sweden 1 japan 1 korea 1 key people joe sander ceo mandeep khera cmo sam rehman cto warren barrett cfo products arxan code protection arxan cryptographic key & data protection website www.arxan.com arxan technologies is an american technology company specializing in application attack prevention and self protection solution for iot mobile and other applications . the company reports that applications secured by it are running on over 500 million devices . arxan solutions are used to protect applications across a range of industries including mobile payments & banking automotive iot healthcare iot gaming drm 1 2 3 and high tech . arxan s security products are used to protect the confidentiality of applications which can be breached by reverse engineering code analysis and other means and the integrity of applications which can be compromised through code modification malware insertion and other types of attacks . contents 1 history 2 products 3 media and awards 4 see also 5 references history edit arxan is privately held and private equity backed . in the fall of 2013 ta associates a private equity firm completed a majority investment in arxan technologies . previously the company received series b funding in 2003 4 followed by 13 million in series c funding in 2007 and a series d funding of 4 million in 2009 . early investors included trident capital edf ventures legend ventures paladin capital dunrath capital tdf fund and solstice capital . the company s initial focus was on defense anti tamper applications . following the sale of its defense technology unit arxan defense systems to microsemi in 2010 5 arxan focused on commercial applications . products edit arxan offers a number of anti tamper software products for application and cryptographic key protection . 6 these include arxan code protection to secure mobile iot & embedded desktop and server applications arxan cryptographic key & data protection to secure secret keys and data with white box cryptography which provide all the major crypto algorithms and features required to protect sensitive keys and data in hostile or untrusted operational environments in may 2012 the company announced comprehensive support for android application protection and hardening against tampering and piracy . 7 in june 2014 arxan announced that its mobile application protection offerings will be sold by ibm as part of ibm s portfolio of security products . arxan s products are based on patented security techniques 8 9 10 11 for code hardening tamper proofing key security and node locking . the core technology consists of a multi layered interconnected network of guards that each perform a specific security function and are embedded into application binaries to make programs tamper aware tamper resistant and self healing . the company claims a three layer protection paradigm of defend detect and react as a differentiating approach . by detecting when an attack is being attempted and responding to detected attacks with alerts and repairs this protection helps secure software against hacking attacks and threats such as 12 static reverse engineering or code analysis dynamic reverse engineering or debugging tampering to disable or circumvent security mechanisms authentication encryption anti virus security policies etc. tampering to modify program functionality tampering for piracy or unauthorized use insertion of malware into an application counterfeiting and ip theft stealing of cryptographic keys arxan also creates protection and anti tamper solutions for video games similar to denuvo albeit with less success . 2k games mafia iii was bypasse within 24 h release by scene member voksi . 13 media and awards edit deloitte 2014 top 500 fastest growing technology company 14 cioreview magazine 2014 top 50 most promising iot companies 15 2015 mobile innovations award winner for best management of mobile security issues 16 info security products guide 2014 winner for best new product mobile application integrity protection suite v 5.0 17 see also edit tamper resistance application security encryption content protection digital rights management cryptographic key types obfuscated code cryptography references edit rosen sam . arxan hardens multiplatform drm solutions . abi research . retrieved 25 april 2012 . protecting tv video content that is viewed on multiple types of consumer electronic ce devices . iptv magazine . retrieved 25 april 2012 . so many drms so many headaches pdf . csi magazine 36 . jan feb 2012 . clearing economic hurdles arxan griffin secure additional financing pdf . biz voice magazine . microsemi acquires arxan defense systems inc. . microsemi . arxan technologies products . arxan technologies . android security protection of java and native apps . android security . method and system for tamperproofing software . uspto patent full text and image database . retrieved 25 april 2012 . guards for application in software tamperproofing . uspto patent full text and image database . method and apparatus for hiding a private key . uspto patent full text and image database . method and system for secure computational outsourcing and disguise . uspto patent full text and image database . retrieved 25 april 2012 . dager mike . cyberattack defense staying one step ahead of hackers . technewsworld . retrieved 25 april 2012 . bulgarian voksi . source of bypass to arxan anti tamper . cs.rin.ru . retrieved 7 october 2016 . deloitte 500 fastest growing companies 2014 pdf . retrieved oct 19 2015 . cioreview 2014 top 50 most promising iot companies . retrieved oct 19 2015 . mobile innovations awards 2015 . retrieved oct 19 2015 . arxan awards page . retrieved june 9 2014 . http cs.rin.ru forum viewtopic.php p 1306264 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title arxan technologies & oldid 743349605 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