State-of-the-Art Innovations To Protect Against Theft, Viruses, and Malware

We propose a suite of tools to:Prevent theft via automatic encryption and password entry;Use an application's pedigree to identify vulnerabilities, recommend protections, and prevent unauthorized execution;Automatically scan for viruses, worms, and trojan horses;Detect malicious components via invisible fingerprints and covert biometrics.These tools are language and OS independent. Protection against theft and malware is a growing problem for software development. No commercial applications exist which protect the unique issues confronting source, objects, and executables in a nascentapplication. Our approach applies systemic protection to software development and more broadly to intellectual property.