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Trick or Treat! It’s the perfect time of year to review the most spine-chilling cybersecurity threats. Believe it or not, ghastly ghouls and moaning spirits aren’t the scariest or spookiest things. Cybersecurity criminals and threats are some nasty witches that conjure trouble.

Preview: Denise Mingrone, partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, shares some of the advice she will present at the Cylynt Software Monetization and Anti-Piracy Summit on how to protect software IP in the new remote working environment. Denise recently published an expert analysis article on this topic in Law360. Join the summit to see the full presentation.

Preview: Bob Smith, executive director of the ESD Alliance, a SEMI Technology Community, will be presenting at the Cylynt Software Monetization and Anti-Piracy Summit on October 28-29. In this blog he previews what he will be discussing at the event. Join the summit to see the full presentation.

Preview: Cylynt has introduced Cylynt Ranger, a powerful new piracy detection application that enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to identify and track the illegal usage of older, non-instrumented releases of their software applications.

Preview: Cylynt is partnering with Thales to offer software developers a best-in-class platform for recovering revenue from under compliance and piracy, as well as maximizing additional revenue opportunities. Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco and Thales VP of global solutions sales at Thales eSecurity comment on the advantages of this joint solution.

Preview: On the eve of Superbowl LIV, Cylynt CEO Ted Miracco talks about the parallels between football and Cylynt's anti-piracy software and the fact that doing nothing, either about improving the game or your cybersecurity protection is losing. "People who work together will win, whether it be against complex football defenses, or the problems of modern society." -Vince Lombardi

Cylynt Summit Speaker Highlight #3 David Laufman, partner at Wiggin and Dana law firm and former chief of the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice (DOJ),  will be a keynote speaker at the upcoming Cylynt Software Piracy and License Compliance Summit and will discuss “Keeping Secrets:  Confronting the Threat of Economic Espion […]

Electronic design automation (EDA) software development leaders Synopsys, Inc. and Cadence Design Systems recently settled copyright infringement cases using the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), providing hope to the industry that software piracy can be addressed with the right evidence and legal process. Both cases before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California wer […]

The Trump administration announced new trade tariffs against China in March, claiming that the President is “standing up for American innovation.” Details from a U.S. Trade Representative investigation cited in the official announcement support what many of us in industries that are being pirated have been talking about for years and parallel piracy figures from a report released last year by the […]

 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.