SafeNet Announces Miniature Sentinel HASP HL MaxMicro Licensing Key to Provide Maximum Security

The Latest Addition to the Sentinel Family Affords ISVs Maximum Security in a Low-Profile Solution

BALTIMORE
December 02, 2011

SafeNet, Inc., a worldwide leader in data protection, today announced the general availability of the ultra-small Sentinel HASP HL MaxMicro licensing dongle. The new Sentinel MaxMicro key offers the same robust protection and flexible licensing enforcement as the traditional Sentinel HASP key; however its sleek new design is just a quarter of the size– protruding only 7.6 mm from the computer –making it virtually invisible and dramatically decreasing the possibility of an accidental or deliberate break. MaxMicro joins a full suite of HASP keys that ensure the protection of intellectual property – from piracy, theft or reverse-engineering – and enforce a variety of licensing models, including perpetual, feature-based, pay-per-use, time-based and custom licensing.

MaxMicro, with its 15.6 mm X 19.1 mm footprint, is SafeNet’s smallest hardware key. It is an ideal solution for use cases in which reduced visibility minimizes the likelihood of tampering and accidental or deliberate breakage, including use with notebooks, embedded systems, medical devices, machinery controls and other equipment with stationary licensing keys.

Like most of SafeNet’s award-winning Sentinel HASP family of hardware-based protection keys, MaxMicro includes a full complement of robust security and cryptographic algorithms, including a unique 32-bit ID, 128-bit AES encryption and support for 64,000 encryption keys.

Benefits of the Sentinel HASP MaxMicro key include:

• Inconspicuous licensing key protects against accidental or deliberate contact – protecting the key itself from breakage and reducing the risk of tampering;  
• Ultra-small form factor enables software vendors to meet the demands of markets in which key size is critical – as keys are typically left in the device’s port;  
• MaxMicro provides strong software protection with a unique 32-bit ID number, an on-chip encryption engine and a 128-bit AES encryption algorithm, and control over 231 unique features per key;  
• MaxMicro permits remote update of keys in the field; and  
• MaxMicro is the only miniature USB licensing key to contain ribs for easy insertion and removal, combining the user experience benefits of both regular-size and miniature keys.  

To download the free Digital Sentinel HASP Developer Kit or to receive a free Physical Sentinel HASP with the new MaxMicro key, please visit: http://www.safenet-inc.com/sentinel-dk-download-maxmicro.aspx.

For more information about SafeNet’s software rights management solutions, visit http://www.safenet-inc.com/sentinelhasp/.

The Sentinel family of hardware keys complements SafeNet’s Sentinel software-based keys, and together they provide the only solution on the market that combines hardware and software-based protection and secure licensing in a single solution. Supported by a set of development and management tools, the Sentinel HASP family enables software vendors and developers to implement flexible licensing enforcement solutions that best meet their business needs and their customers’ demands.

About SafeNet Software Monetization Solutions

SafeNet has more than 25 years of experience in delivering innovative and reliable software licensing and entitlement management solutions to software, cloud service, and technology vendors worldwide. Easy to integrate and use, innovative, and feature-focused, the company's family of Sentinel® software monetization solutions are designed to meet the unique license enablement, enforcement, and entitlement management requirements of any organization, regardless of size, technical requirements, or organizational structure.  

Only with SafeNet are clients able to address all of their IP protection, licensing, and entitlement management challenges while increasing overall profitability, improving internal operations, maintaining competitive positioning, and enhancing relationships with their customers and end users.

With a proven history in adapting to new requirements and introducing new technologies to address evolving market conditions, SafeNet's more than 25,000 customers around the globe know that by choosing Sentinel, they choose the freedom to evolve how they do business today, tomorrow, and beyond. To learn more about SafeNet’s full portfolio of software monetization solutions, visit www.safenet-inc.com/sentinel. To learn more about our software monetization solution designed specifically for cloud services or to request a free trial, visitwww.sentinelcloud.com.