PreEmptive Solutions
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| Private | |
| Industry | Software, Application Security |
| Founded | 1996 |
| Headquarters | Mayfield Village, OH, United States |
Area served | Worldwide |
| Products | Dotfuscator, DashO, PreEmptive Protection for iOS, PreEmptive Analytics |
| Slogan | Smart Application Protection |
| Website | https://www.preemptive.com |
PreEmptive Solutions is an American technology company that helps organizations secure and protect the applications they build. Through a combination of code obfuscation, encryption, optimization, and tamper detection and response technologies, PreEmptive Solutions reports to provide material risk mitigation against the following:
- Intellectual Property Theft
- Piracy and Revenue Loss
- Trust and Brand Damage
- Fraud and Unauthorized Access
- Confidential Data Theft
As part of Microsoft’s Visual Studio, a lite version of Preemptive Solutions’ Dotfuscator product is installed by default on millions of desktops. [1]
The company reports that it has over 5,000 corporate clients spanning virtually every industry in over 100 countries.
History
PreEmptive was founded in 1996 by Gabriel Torok, Paul Tyma, and William Leach. In 1998, PreEmptive released DashO for Java application protection and optimization. In 2002, PreEmptive released Dotfuscator for .NET application protection and optimization and in 2003 Microsoft first included a lite version of Dotfuscator in Visual Studio.[2] In 2010, PreEmptive and Microsoft announced the addition of application tamper detection and defense.[3] PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft also partnered in 2012 to provide exception analytics in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012.[4] In 2014, PreEmptive Solutions released PreEmptive Analytics Workbench, an application analytics platform measuring application adoption, feature usage, user preferences, and exceptions and security related events.
Product offerings
PreEmptive’s Protection Products (.NET, Java and iOS) harden applications to protect intellectual property, reduce piracy and detect, report and respond to tampering.
- Dotfuscator for .NET – Protects and secures .NET apps of all types. Lite version in Visual Studio. [5]
- DashO for Java –Protects and secures Java and Android apps.
- PreEmptive Protection for iOS – Protects and secures iOS apps.
- PreEmptive Analytics for Team Foundation Server - Aggregates and analyzes exceptions (silent production failures) and automatically creates Visual Studio TFS work items based entirely upon your rules and operational thresholds.
- PreEmptive Analytics Workbench - A solution that captures and processes application security incidents, adoption, feature usage, and end-user behavior.
References
- ↑ Preemptive Caught in Microsoft’s Net
- ↑ Dotfuscator Community Edition 4.0
- ↑ Microsoft and PreEmptive Solutions to Provide Application Feature Monitoring and Tamper Defense
- ↑ PreEmptive Solutions and Microsoft Partner to Provide Exception Analytics in Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012
- ↑ PreEmptive Dotfuscator CE