Published: 26 Feb 2024

Challenges Facing Companies

Companies face a myriad of serious risks, including:

* Exploitation of vulnerabilities due to hard work
* Theft of intellectual property
* Revenue loss

Software Piracy

According to the Business Software Alliance, approximately 40% of all software programs are pirated worldwide. This has a significant impact on software companies, as it reduces their revenues and hinders their ability to develop and innovate.

Obfuscation for Code Protection

Obfuscation is a technique used to protect code by scrambling the names of classes, methods, variables, and other assembly members. This makes it more difficult for attackers to understand and exploit vulnerabilities.

Considerations for Obfuscation

When considering obfuscation, it is important to remember the following:

* Public members accessed from external assembly code should not be obfuscated.
* For executable files (EXEs), consider setting obfuscation to aggressively obscure all names, including public members.
* Some obfuscation settings can prevent recompilation.
* Public members in DLL libraries are generally intended for external use and should not be obfuscated.
* Obfuscation can effectively protect private and public member names.