Protect
Protect your software independence.
Security, licensing and lifecycle control should not depend on the software vendor's commercial agenda.
We protect your right to run software for as long as it serves your business. Older software is not inherently unsafe. Poor control is.
Software vendors use security, lifecycle, and commercial pressure as three separate levers to pull you back onto their roadmap.
We help protect our customers' right to run their software free from lifecycle coercion, audit ambiguity, and security decisions so you can run your roadmap on your terms, not the software vendors.
What protect delivers
Protection across security, licensing and lifecycle.
Core
OPTAS — Proactive Threat Assurance Service
Patent pending
OPTAS predicts, validates, prioritizes, and mitigates vulnerabilities in the context of your environment — not the OEM's patch schedule.
Vulnerability advisory portal
Stay ahead of emerging security risks. The Vulnerability Advisory Portal provides proactive vulnerability monitoring, impact assessments, and practical mitigation guidance to help you manage exposure across supported software versions.
Product hardening
Product security starts with configuration. Our hardening guides help reduce attack surfaces, eliminate common misconfigurations, and strengthen security without changing versions or relying on patches.
Software entitlement capture
Your right to upgrade doesn't expire when OEM support does. We provide expert guidance to help you preserve every software version and solution you're entitled to before your support end date, so your options stay open.
+ Value
License entitlement validation
Independent validation of your license entitlements and software usage so you know exactly where you stand before the OEM tells you where they think you do.
License audit support
Expert guidance to prepare for, respond to, and navigate software audits or compliance disputes. We help ensure you do not concede more than you owe.
License compliance assurance
Recurring service that manages your licensing posture and vendor engagement, identifying and addressing entitlement gaps before they become the OEM's leverage point.
Vulnerability shielding
When patching isn't possible, exposure doesn't have to increase. Vulnerability shielding provides an additional layer of protection against known attack patterns without modifying your software or needlessly upgrading.
