---
title: "[Security] Microsoft unveils Code Protection suite of tools"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/15/security-microsoft-unveils-code-protection-suite-of-tools.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/11/15/security-microsoft-unveils-code-protection-suite-of-tools.html"
published: "2007-11-15T17:26:02"
updated: "2007-11-15T17:26:02"
tags: [".NET", "General Software Devel...", "Security"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "about a year ago Microsoft bought a small Israeli Company called Secured Dimensions. They had an interesting solution to the problem of protecting your .NET code. Basically they would help you choose which parts of the…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# \[Security\] Microsoft unveils Code Protection suite of tools

By Roy Osherove November 15, 2007 In [.NET](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net), [General Software Devel...](https://osherove.com/blog/category/general-software-devel), [Security](https://osherove.com/blog/category/security)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 15, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

about a year ago [Microsoft bought a small Israeli Company](http://microsoft.blognewschannel.com/archives/2007/01/17/microsoft-buys-israeli-data-protection-firm-secured-dimensions/) called Secured Dimensions. They had an interesting solution to the problem of protecting your .NET code. Basically they would help you choose which parts of the code you'd like to protect and then run those parts of hte code in a special virtual machine encrypted environment (in memory).

Recently [Microsoft released a set of products that seems to be based on SD's technology](http://www.microsoft.com/SLPS/products.aspx), and that's a good thing. There aren't many good solutions to protect .NET code. SD's solution is closer to protecting real IP as it gets as far as I can see.

\[via [vitaly](http://vitalygorn.com/blog/)\] - (BTW, Vitaly- you have a configuration bug in your blog. just try accessing a specific [post by url and you get a nasty error](http://vitalygorn.com/blog/post/2007/11/New-code-protection-and-licensing-solution-from-Microsoft.aspx))

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