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Irdeto’s Cloakware Hosts Workshop To Drive Awareness Of White-Box Security and Software Protection in China

Beijing, China — December 11, 2009 — Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services, today announced that its Cloakware product group is working with the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS), part of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); and the University of Arizona, USA to address growing White-Box security threats such as the Man-At-The-End (MATE)™ attacks.

Irdeto's Cloakware will share its security expertise at a workshop on December 12, 2009 to discuss the latest challenges of software security including raising the awareness of the threat from White-Box attacks. Targeting research scientists, graduate students and security professionals, the event will be led by Andrew Wajs, CTO of Irdeto and Yuan Xiang Gu, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Cloakware. Also participating will be Dr. Chuan-Kun Wu from the Institute of Software, CAS and Professor Christian Collberg of the University of Arizona.

“As computers and electronic devices play an increasingly important role in modern life, the value of content and services deployed on these devices grows exponentially – and so does their attractiveness to hackers,” said Yuan Xiang Gu, Co-founder and Chief Architect of Cloakware. “Our goal is to build trusted software security that can effectively protect against White-Box threats such as ‘Man-at-the-End’ attacks and renew security when such attacks are detected. Effective security throughout the entire lifecycle is becoming absolutely essential for companies whose business models rely on the successful protection and monetization of their digital assets.”

At threat from White-Box attacks today are hand-held devices; consumer electronics; home networks; on-line banking, Internet shopping and other applications relying on wireless connectivity and DRM and Conditional Access systems for cable and satellite.

“Cloakware represents the next generation of encryption technology and is very important for Irdeto’s future growth, so we are pleased to exchange ideas with the scientific and academic community here in Beijing,” said Andrew Wajs, Chief Technology Officer of Irdeto.

The Irdeto and Cloakware brands are synonymous with trust and protection, providing innovative, proven solutions that assist customers in enterprise, media, broadcast, broadband, mobile, gaming and government applications. With over one billion deployed applications today on PCs, set-top boxes, mobile phones and media players, Irdeto’s Cloakware security product is the security cornerstone of many of the world’s largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies.

About the State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS)
Managed by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), State Key Laboratory of Information Security (SKLOIS) has a twenty year history of research and development of information security technology and provides a scientific foundation for information security development plus the training of high level specialist support staff. SKLOIS has published more than 70 books and 1,500 papers. As of June 2008, the laboratory had completed more than 300 projects, including National Key Foundation Theory Research and Natural Science Foundation projects. SKLOIS has received more than 20 awards from the Central Government and China’s National Ministries. By 2008, SKLOIS had recruited 53 members, and 193 researchers to its faculty, including post-doctoral, doctoral, and master students, as well as visiting scholars. The laboratory maintains a top quality cryptology and network security research establishment in China.

About the University of Arizona Security Group
The University of Arizona Security Group has extensive experience in the study of defenses against Man-At-The-End (MATE) attacks. This includes algorithms for code obfuscation, software tamper-proofing, water-marking, and birth-marking. Most recently, the group developed algorithms for the dynamic analysis of computer viruses and for evolving defenses to address the remote ‘Man-At-The-End’ scenario.

About Irdeto

Irdeto empowers companies to protect and monetize their digital assets and maximize return on content with innovative and reliable software technologies, content management and distribution solutions and end-to-end solutions and services. The company’s products include conditional access, digital rights management, business support systems and set-top box software solutions. More than 500 customers worldwide trust Irdeto to secure and enable the delivery of their valuable content across digital broadcast, IP, mobile, enterprise and government networks. Irdeto solutions currently enable simple to advanced business models on more than one billion devices and applications.

Through Irdeto’s product Cloakware, the company provides trusted security software and services to top-tier companies to protect their core digital assets that create revenue-generating business models. By keeping their core digital assets “cloaked” throughout creation, distribution and consumption, companies can protect their existing business models and create new sources of revenue. Cloakware protects billions of digital assets across servers, desktops and embedded devices that are deployed worldwide using our proven software security and services. Cloakware is the security cornerstone of many of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies.

Founded in 1969, Irdeto employs over 900 people in 25 offices across the globe, including the dual corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (JSE: NPN), which includes a wide range of pay TV, Internet, instant-messaging, technology and publishing businesses. For more information, please visit www.irdeto.com.

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