Protect your software while enforcing the licenses you issue
Protection in AuthGuru enforces the licensing terms you issue against reverse engineering, tampering, and unauthorized use — the same terms defined in your license and entitlement data, not a separate security layer with its own rules.
Talk to us about protecting your softwareA license is only as strong as its enforcement
Issuing a license defines the terms — who can use your software, how, and for how long. But without enforcement, those terms are just a document. Reverse engineering, key sharing, and unauthorized deployment turn a licensing model into a formality rather than a real revenue-protection mechanism. Protection is what makes your entitlements and license terms technically binding, not just contractually stated.
Protection, licensing, and everything in between
Protection combines encryption, device-level locking, hardware enforcement, and API-level control, applied to make unauthorized use genuinely difficult.
Encryption
Protects application binaries and sensitive logic using AES-256 encryption by default, configurable to specific customer security needs.
Machine-Locking
Ties a license to a specific device, also known as node-locking, preventing unauthorized copying to other machines entirely.
Hardware-Based Protection
Uses hardware keys to enforce protection where software-only methods aren't sufficient, especially in high-risk environments.
Developer APIs
Call protection functions directly from your application, so enforcement logic can be customized to your specific codebase.
Why this matters beyond security
Protection affects more than security posture — it has a direct bearing on revenue, intellectual property, compliance posture, and how much time your team spends chasing unauthorized use.
Protects your revenue
Enforcement closes the gap between "licensed" and "actually paid for," capturing revenue your model is designed to generate.
Protects intellectual property
Proprietary logic stays harder to extract and replicate, keeping the engineering work behind your product genuinely yours.
Supports compliance posture
Enforceable licenses back up the reporting from your entitlement records, so audit answers hold up under scrutiny.
Reduces support and disputes
Fewer unauthorized-use edge cases means less time spent manually chasing down who's actually running your software.
Enforcement runs on the same data as your license
Protection in AuthGuru operates on the same license and entitlement data issued through the platform — not a bolt-on security layer with its own separate rules. When a license is issued or an entitlement changes, protection enforces exactly those terms at runtime, across whichever license delivery method your product uses.
Built for publishers where unauthorized use is a real risk
Protection matters most once IP value, distribution reach, or real-world risk make unauthorized use something more than a theoretical concern.
Meaningful IP value
Publishers whose software represents real engineering investment worth protecting from extraction or replication.
Uncontrolled distribution
Publishers distributing into environments they can't fully control — offline, embedded, or third-party sites.
Risk turned real
Any publisher who has seen reverse engineering or unauthorized use move from theoretical to an actual incident.
Complex product lines
Publishers managing multiple products or tiers, where unauthorized access is harder to detect and trace manually.
Works alongside
Protection doesn't operate in isolation — it shares data and logic with the rest of AuthGuru's platform, so these capabilities work together rather than as separate systems.
Let's talk about protecting your software
Tell us about your product and deployment, and we'll show you how AuthGuru enforces your licensing terms in practice.
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