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Benefits of SoftwareShield's™ IronWrap Technology

Maximum DRM Security

SoftwareShield’s IronWrap is a sophisticated protection mechanism to protect your software applications. You can IronWrap your existing applications without making a single change to your compiled (source) code.

Iron Wrapping essentially “wraps” a mini virtual operating system around your program (and optionally, data) like a protective shield. This virtual system may contain a pre-defined license model, logic, and customizable user-interface elements to allow the user to interact with the IronWrap system itself.

The system combines a multi-dimensional array of methods to protect your product is a highly secure package. Extensive anti-hacking/cracking, code obfuscation, cryptographic machine-binding, tamper-proofing, encryption, compression, intrusion-detection and several secret and proprietary methodologies are used to keep your content safe.

Powerful and Versatile DRM

IronWrap essentially “wraps” a mini virtual operating system around your program like a protective shield. The IronWrap system may contain a pre-defined license model, logic, and customizable user-interface elements to allow the user to interact with the IronWrap system itself.

IronWrap combines a multi-dimensional array of methods to protect your product is a highly secure package.

Protect all your game files as a whole with IronWrap

SoftwareShield's IronWrapper will protect and compress your application, and its ancillary files, as one file in an "all-in-one" package. Whereas traditional wrapper protection protects just your .EXE, any resource files, DLLs and data remain outside of the executable - which leaves your software vulnerable to crackers.

IronWrapping and protecting all your files into one executable will close down traditional "back doors" to your source code. You can also protect asset files by embedding them into the executable or into an AXS file (our proprietary file format). IronWrap will encapsulate:

  • Application Executables (EXE, DLL, OCX)
  • Data (SWF, Textures, Audio, Video, Script, Font)
  • Documents (Doc, Txt, PDF, etc.)

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Power Up with IronWrap's Feature-Rich Protection

The IronWrap system provides numerous protection mechanisms which you can control. These protections include three types of systems (technically, some protections may fall under one or more types):

  • Protections which make it difficult to reverse engineer or crack the product through obfuscation
  • Protections which explicitly attempt to prevent common attacks or actions which may assist a cracker.
  • Protections which attempt to detect that an attacker is trying to crack the product (and take some remedial action)

The exact protections you apply to your Iron Wrapped product may be controlled from inside your License Project in the License Manager. These protections may include:

  • Bad-Header Protection
  • Internal Resource Protection
  • Relocation Table Protection
  • Export Protection Technology (EAT)
  • API Filter Protection Technology
  • IronWrap CodeRivets™
  • Embedding Files
  • Digital Signature
  • Validation Protection
  • The IronWrap Advanced Defense System (ADS)
  • Anti-Code Injection Protection (a sub-module of the ADS system)
  • Anti-Virtual Machine Protection (a sub-module of the ADS system)

Maximum Flexibility

You may also choose to employ a “hybrid”, combined approach to protect your applications. In this approach you use IronWrapping but also invoke SoftwareShield’s ClientProtector from inside your application. With this hybrid approach you can use a rich (virtual) COM interface to communicate between your application and the outer protective layer of the IronWrap system, providing supreme flexibility with high-strength protection.

IronWrap is included with the IronWrap edition of SoftwareShield.

Download SoftwareShield for Free and evaluate IronWrap for yourself!