White Paper
Content
Introduction 3
The Benefits of Protection
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Safe Foundations
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The Threats and Our Response:
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New Business Models
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Summary 11
Author:
Oliver Winzenried is a security enthusiast with a vocation to expand universal knowledge
and apply innovative technologies to protect the intellectual property and business
revenues of ISVs. With a degree in Electrical Engineering achieved at the University
in Karlsruhe, he has immediately started an entrepreneurial career in electronic and
ASIC design, hardware, microcontroller and embedded application development for
consumer electronics, automotive and industrial engineering. Together with Marcellus
Buchheit, in 1989 he then founded WIBU-SYSTEMS AG, whom he’s still the CEO of.
His passion for software integrity has resulted in numerous patent awards that span
across secure license management and dongle feature innovations. He’s also a prolific author, greatly
contributing to editorials and books on the one hand, as well as addressing large audiences at trade
shows, conferences, industry associations and technology centers like the Fraunhofer Institute. His
personal involvement in international R&D projects and organizations for standardization, such as the
SD Card Association, tops his profile off. Oliver Winzenried is also serving as chairman in the Product
Protection and Know-how Protection “Protect-Ing” committee of VDMA, in the board of directors of
BITKOM as well as in the managing board of FZI at KIT.