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Vi Labs uses Google Maps to keep an eye on piracy


By Jeff Feinman
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May 21, 2009 —  Security provider Vi Labs is putting piracy on the map by mashing its database up with Google Maps.

The company today released a new version of its CodeArmor Intelligence software anti-piracy platform. CodeArmor Intelligence can now report piracy by collecting data at a gateway server, according to company executives. Geographic information is then added to the platform, and users can view the location of the infringing party through Google Maps.

Users can see how many infringements are being reported from a regional perspective. Web services then add business profile information, an organization’s latitude and longitude from its IP address information. Users can zoom in all the way down to a street-level view of the area reporting pirated software, Vi Labs executives said.

“We present to the client an interface that says, ‘Click here to see where this falls within Google Maps,' ” said Victor DeMarines, vice president of products for Vi Labs. “So all the data is coming from the infringements that we’re detecting in the field, and then we can augment that data with other Web services, and in the end, you’re going to see this non-compliant organization through a screenshot.”



DeMarines said Vi Labs’ clients have direct access to the data, and the clients can determine how to follow up on that information. In some cases, the piracy is the result of a legitimately licensed customer that started using software vulnerable to piracy.

CodeArmor Intelligence is priced at an annual subscription fee starting at US$50,000.

Other new features in the release include rules-based filtering and an improved SDK. Organizations can build rules to filter information being put into the CodeArmor Intelligence reporting interface.

For example, an organization running CodeArmor Intelligence may see that certain geographical areas have only end users displaying infringements. If the organization is only interested in data around business piracy, it can build a rule that will only report on businesses using pirated software.

“The organization can also build a rule that collects as much information as it can in one geographic region, and scale the information back in other regions,” DeMarines said. “If they have some legal policies on where they can collect data, they can map those policies to a filtering rule that’s on their deployed instance of our gateway server.”

The SDK, meanwhile, now provides sample applications that Vi Labs said could simplify integrating CodeArmor Intelligence into third-party applications.




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