Case Study: How Nektra Improved Desktop Virtualization for Symantec Corporation
Introduction Large companies are continually faced with new technologies and shorter technology cycles which render their trusted applications obsolete. Migrating an application from one technology to...
View Article64-bit Microsoft Office Applications Do Not Like Stack Walking
Our Office plugin development team was researching some problems with Office and they found this problem. Our SpyStudio tool intercepts application system calls and retrieves the called functions by...
View ArticleThe Changing Landscape of the Application Performance Monitoring Market
If you look at the last Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for APM and compare it with what is really happening in the market you will notice two things: With the exception of Compuware, the leaders, New Relic...
View ArticleRegistration-Free Activation of Deviare Hooking Engine COM in x86 and x64...
Deviare 101 Part 1 Welcome to the first installment of Deviare 101. In this article, we’ll explain how to use Deviare’s Reg-Free COM capability to easily deploy applications on end-user machines. This...
View ArticleDeviare Hooking Engine is Open Source and Deviare In-Proc Supports .NET Hooking
We have good news for those interested in Windows Hooking. Deviare Hooking Engine is now open source and available on GitHub. The license is GPL but a commercial license and support are also available...
View ArticleSpyStudio Is Now Free: Create and Troubleshoot Application Packages for Windows
SpyStudio is now free and available for download here. It is a Swiss Army knife for cyber security analysts, DevOps, QA engineers, and developers. You can take a look at the articles “Nektra and VMware...
View ArticleRemoteBridge Is Now Open Source: Inspect and Control Java and COM Objects...
RemoteBridge is now open source and available on GitHub as are Deviare Hooking Engine and Deviare-InProc. RemoteBridge allows you to access the COM and Java objects instanced in a process as if they...
View ArticleWatermark Printed Documents in Windows
Our Data Loss Prevention Development team used Deviare to add watermarks to printed documents by intercepting XPS Print API interfaces. This technique can be applied to all printing jobs on virtual or...
View ArticleIs Google Spying on You? How to Quickly Craft an Ad Hoc Security Sandbox
In June, 2015 there was an alarming bit of news when people over at the Debian project realized that Chromium silently downloaded a closed source NaCl binary extension. It was the hotword extension...
View ArticleBenchmarking Windows Packet-Capture Methods for Windows Driver Development
Below, we compare different ways of intercepting network packets, and of filtering and analyzing their content to see if kernel drivers which use NDIS and WFP frameworks perform better than WinPcap. We...
View ArticleComparing Data Loss Prevention Products
At Nektra we develop custom DLP solutions that can be run as individual components or integrated into third party products. In our comments below we focus on critical capabilities: mobile, BYOD, cloud,...
View ArticleReflecting on 16 Years of Work on Adversarial Interoperability
There has been a recent burst of blog posts about adversarial interoperability: Dodging Bullets on the Path to a Decentralized Future: 2019 in Review, Adversarial Interoperability [eff.org],...
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