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Cylynt has posted a fourth consecutive year of record sales for the 2017 fiscal year with revenues soaring 87 percent over 2016 and bookings pipeline growth of 104 percent. Growth was fueled by adding significant new customers in addition to contract renewals from existing clients. 

Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco delivered the keynote at the REUSE Conference on December 14 in Santa Clara, CA. In a video interview with conference organizer Warren Savage, general manager of IP at EDA company Silvaco, Ted talks about the global problem of software and IP piracy and the dangers it presents when using cracked software. Any software company that doesn't have an active license compliance pr […]

A report from the National Association of Manufacturers connects the dots from software piracy to the loss of over 42,000 manufacturing jobs and over $239B in revenues, as shown in the figure on the right. While I believe the basis of the study and trust the methodology, there has always been some lingering doubt about the tangible impact to real-world victims. Recently, however, the ramifications […]

Announcing the availability of SmartFlow Professional 2017, the latest release of our entry-level, cloud-based anti-piracy solution for small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) developing software and intellectual property (IP). SmartFlow Professional provides SMBs with an affordable solution for developing or expanding their compliance management and IP protection efforts.

Today we announced the 2017 version of SmartFlow Enterprise, which has the unique ability to configure the data collection functionality to help ensure compliance with the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming on May 25, 2018.

by Ted Miracco It seems like hacking is all over the news these days, from the Black Hat and Defcon conferences to the near-constant coverage of the Russian involvement in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.

We all know that cybersecurity, software piracy, and IP theft are becoming bigger and bigger problems in today’s semiconductor industry. But what can we do about it?

Guest Blog by Ted Miracco, CEO and Akshay Dhule, Application Engineer   With heightened global tensions, it is more important than ever for software companies to make sure their products are only exported and used by entities that are not subject to trade sanctions. 

 The WannaCry ransomware attack has now infected more than 230,000 computers in over 150 countries (see wikipedia.org/wiki/WannaCry_ransomware_attack for details). And this could be just the tip of the iceberg.

A 2017 update by the Commission on the Theft of American Intellectual Property provides a new assessment of the IP piracy problem in the U.S. and examines the progress that has been made on the original 2013 report recommendations for combatting the issue. The update estimates that the losses to American companies from software piracy exceeded $18 billion in 2016. Both the 2013 report and 2017 upd […]