SAFE Corporation Launches CodeScreener Online Service

Software Analysis & Forensic Engineering Corporation (SAFE Corporation), a provider of software forensic analysis tools for discovering software IP theft and measuring software IP changes, has plans to introduce its new offering, named CodeScreener. The new online software service helps in comparing software source code or binary code, and is able to measure the correlation between two application programs, social network games, or mobile apps for identifying plagiarism.

The company offers a number of forensic software tools that are useful in detection of software copyright infringement and trade secret misappropriation, and the new CodeScreener leverages the patented CodeSuite forensic software of SAFE as the back-end analysis engine. Using its long experience in serving software experts in IP litigation, the company has developed the new service for detecting software plagiarism, which supports 25 programming languages at present, while more of them will be added regularly.

Programming languages being currently supported by the service include ASM (News - Alert)-M68k, BASIC, C, C++, C#, Delphi, Flash ActionScript, Fortran, FoxPro, Java, JavaScript, LISP, MASM, MATLAB, Pascal, Perl, PHP, PowerBuilder, Python, RealBasic, Ruby, SQL, Verilog, VHDL and Visual Basic.

In the words of Michael Barr, president of Netrino, with the access and affordability of CodeScreener, more software developers will be able to determine if their software has been copied. Barr continued that the service will give developers an important tool to protect their intellectual property.

With the help of a common-use filter option CodeScreener relies upon Internet searches to eliminate correlation not caused by copying, which provides a clean report where any remaining correlation found warrants examination as potential copying.

According to Bob Zeidman, president of SAFE Corporation, since incorporating SAFE in 2007, the company seen a growing need for an online code screening solution that developers could use. Zeidman noted that the challenge was to provide a clean report that reduced false positives, typically the work of an expert, and CodeScreener meets this challenge in an easy-to-use online service. Users can access the CodeScreener service at the website, where it is available at a price of $100 per report.

In September 2010, SAFE Corporation announced that Robert Zeidman was recognized by the Santa Clara Valley Section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers with an award for outstanding engineer in a specialized field.