Arxan expands application protection to Apple TV


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Michelle Clancy

| 30 October 2015





Arxan Technologies has announced expanded application security protections for the Apple tvOS platform.


The new OS for Apple TV will involve pre-installed apps, which need advanced application and cryptographic key security measures to prevent digital piracy and content theft.

"App developers have learned many lessons from iOS apps over the years, particularly the need to bake more robust protection into the apps before they are released 'into the wild', and they are now applying those lessons to Apple tvOS," said Vince Arneja, VP of product management at Arxan. "The apps on the new Apple TV are responsible for delivering an exceptional customer experience, and to do that they must be secure and trusted. Given today's heightened security risks associated with distributed applications, the advanced application security measures now being used are as essential as securing your baby in a car seat before driving your car."

The Apple tvOS protections from Arxan use multi-layered guards, inserted within the binary code of the applications following the development process. The guards protect the application from being reverse-engineered and compromised at run time. In addition, cryptographic keys contained within the applications are transformed to mitigate the risk of them being identified within the code or in memory at run time.