1. Xcitex Inc. Deploys
SafeNet Sentinel HASP
Case study
From Lab to Field Sentinel HASP Gives Mobility to Motion Capture & Analysis Technology
Background
A leader in motion capture technology, Xcitex, Inc. needed secure Challenge
protection for their Emmy Award-winning motion-analysis software. • Ensure license compliance by protecting their high-value software
For the past six years, HASP has been securing Xcitex’s intellectual from piracy and unauthorized use
property and enabling Xcitex to engage in vigorous try-before-buy • Maintain competitive market position by protecting their valuable
sales and marketing strategies. intellectual property and trade secrets from reverse-engineering
• Implement new business models and easily update software
the Business Challenge licenses in the field
Xcitex produces some of the world’s foremost motion capture and
analysis software. Xcitex products are used by research facilities,
sports and biomechanics engineers, military test ranges and solution
automotive crash facilities worldwide. In 2006, Xcitex engineers won • SafeNet Sentinel HASP
an Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovative Technical Achievement
for their work with CBS Sports to analyze specific aspects of golf
tournaments: ball speed, club speed, ball spin rate, launch angle and Rewards
other parameters, which were then overlaid onto CBS’s video signal. • Increased sales: Protection against illegal use translates into
More recently, the LEGS charitable organization selected Xcitex’s increased sales through legal useage.
software for research on sophisticated prosthetic limbs. Sought • IP Protection: Sentinel HASP prevents reverse-engineering of code
by motion research institutions around the globe for its innovative and offers robust anti-debugging and code obfuscation technology.
approach to motion analysis, Xcitex needed to protect its software • Multiple licensing options: Enables multiple licensing options,
from piracy, theft or improper licensing, while still allowing customers allowing software vendors to hone their sales models to meet
to move the software from the laboratory to the field. market-specific demands.
Xcitex Case Study 1

2. the Journey “Sentinel HASP hardware keys are an effective
After carefully evaluating the leading software rights management
mode of providing security without locking
products, Xcitex chose Sentinel HASP for its excellent reputation
and exhaustive list of flexible product features. “Sentinel HASP is a
applications to specific computers. Our business
complete solution that was easy to implement,” said Peter Carellas, model integrates many of the advantages of the
president of Xcitex. “The Sentinel HASP brand had a good reputation HASP key – time verification, string checking
in the industry and we were able to study technical papers that
and runtime counting –into our marketing and
explained the company’s security testing protocols, which assured
us of the quality of product we were buying.” sales plans. And because we can strategically
expire access to our applications, it has even
the solution minimized our need for credit verification during
Xcitex integrated Sentinel HASP into their motion analysis software the purchase cycle.”
and has secured thousands of software packages with Sentinel HASP
-Peter Carellas, President of Xcitex, Inc.
hardware keys, which secure Xcitex’s valuable software without
locking it to a specific computer. This allows Xcitex’s customers
about Xcitex, Inc.
flexibility of use on multiple computers, in the laboratory and in the
Xcitex is an innovator in the industries of video-based motion capture
field. It has lived up to Carellas’s highest expectations.
and motion analysis. Its engineers introduced the first synchronized
“The key ingredient for any security system is trust that the high-speed video/data systems in 1998. Xcitex followed with new
system is tested and bulletproof,” he said. “Certainly, we had initial technologies for controlling high-speed cameras in a motion capture
questions about the resistance of the Sentinel HASP key to hacking, environment and revolutionary motion analysis software products.
but these concerns dissipated over time as we gained both mass
Today, Xcitex provides its industrial consumers an array of technically
endorsements from our customers and the endorsements of their
superior, affordable and easyto-use products. For more information,
respective IT departments.”
visit: www.Xcitex.com.
about safeNet
Founded in 1983, SafeNet is a global leader in information security.
the Rewards
SafeNet protects its customers’ most valuable assets, including
Sentinel HASP has allowed Xcitex to branch out with their software
identities, transactions, communications, data and software
in ways that would not be possible without the rock-solid protection
licensing, throughout the data lifecycle. More than 25,000 customers
that Sentinel HASP ensures. By far the greatest benefit to Xcitex is
across both commercial enterprises and government agencies and in
the flexibility of software deployment with complete assurance that
over 100 countries trust their information security needs to SafeNet.
their software is secure. “It allows us to execute licensing we just
wouldn’t be able to accomplish without such a robust solution,” said
Carellas. “We wouldn’t be able to totally execute plans for software
distribution. It gives us portable security, which is important to our
customers.”
The Sentinel HASP hardware key’s onboard memory, time verification,
string checking and runtime counting enable Xcitex to create feature-
rich pre-sales packages of their motion-analysis software for highend
consumers to try before purchasing.
“High-end users want to see and touch software before they
purchase it, not just buy it from a spec sheet,” Carellas explained.
“Sentinel HASP allows us to put copies of our software in our dealers’
and potential customers’ hands for demonstrations and trials.
We would not feel comfortable sending out our software without
the key’s time limit feature. And because we can strategically expire
access to our applications, it has even minimized our need for credit
verification during the purchase cycle.”
“The Sentinel HASP security has been reliable and robust, and we’re
very pleased,” Carellas said.
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Xcitex Case Study 2