Thales launches paid add-on to prevent AI reverse engineering
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Thales releases Sentinel Envelope Plus, a paid add-on aimed at making compiled applications harder for AI tools to reverse engineer, find vulnerabilities in, and exploit. The component is aimed at Sentinel platform users and is offered as a paid add-on at launch, rather than a free feature or standalone product. Subsequent reports say the product is used to defend against AI-assisted hacking attacks, but did not disclose specific feature details or availability.
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- Hacker News AIThales Launches Sentinel Envelope Plus to Protect from AI-Assisted Hacking
Thales announced Sentinel Envelope Plus, a product it says protects software against AI-assisted hacking. The announcement was published as a Thales press release and shared on Hacker News.
- Hacker News AIThales unveils software protection against AI-led reverse engineering
Thales launched Sentinel Envelope Plus, a paid add-on to its Sentinel Envelope platform that transforms and recompiles selected application components to resist decompilation, tampering and runtime inspection without requiring source code changes. In a Thales-run test, an AI agent found eight of 10 vulnerabilities in an unprotected application but none in the protected version, consuming 970 times as many tokens before analysis was halted after nearly seven hours. Thales said the vulnerabilities remained in the code but were made significantly harder to locate and exploit.
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