January 2026

Happy New Year!

As we start the new year refreshed after the holidays and with renewed optimism, we’d like to wish you Peace and Good Health for 2026!

2025 was an especially meaningful year for PACE as we celebrated our 40th anniversary — 40 years of building trust since 1985. As we move into 2026, that trust, built together with our partners and customers, continues to guide everything we do.

Our mission remains the same: to protect software IP and revenue while making our tools easier and better. Looking ahead, we’re excited to be growing our engineering team, expanding what we can deliver and laying the groundwork for new products and solutions in 2026.

Those new products include launching the next generation of Fusion in the summer. Fusion provides advanced code protection to defend software against reverse engineering. The forthcoming version 6 will further enhance the security provided while being significantly easier for our customers to integrate and deploy.

If you’d like to learn more about PACE, our products or anything in this newsletter, please visit our website or reach out to us directly by email at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

The NAMM Show 2026

First stop of the year for PACE is The NAMM Show in Anaheim, California. Where we get hands-on with the latest products from across music, sound and event technology.

PACE will be at booth #15700 showcasing subscription and Rent-to-Own (RTO) support in the iLok License Delivery App for Shopify, along with the new JUCE Marketplace and the official JUCE C++ Framework Course. We’ll also be previewing upcoming enhancements across iLok Licensing, Fusion code protection, White-Box Works, and JUCE.

JUCE + Audio Developer Conference (ADC) Meetup at NAMM: Join members of the JUCE and ADC teams for an informal meetup during the NAMM Show 2026. We’ll be gathering at the Anaheim Marriott nFuse Bar starting at 5:00 PM on Friday, January 23 — look for the JUCE t-shirts!

NAMM takes place between January 22 to 24.

If you are going to be there, stop past our booth; or for a more in depth discussion schedule a meeting in advance.

Product focus: Fusion AI

Fusion AI is a purpose-built AI model protection toolkit. It is the market’s most comprehensive solution for securing AI models and intellectual property deployed outside traditional data centers.

When AI models run on distributed systems—whether embedded in devices, deployed at the edge, or integrated into customer-controlled applications—they become exposed to the world. In these environments, attackers can inspect models in memory or on disk, extract sensitive data, understand proprietary algorithms, and replicate your competitive advantage. Simple obfuscation or encryption isn’t enough; if an attacker can reverse engineer your model, the value you’ve built is at risk.

Fusion AI enables customers to confidently protect AI models and associated IP throughout their entire lifecycle—at rest, in use, and in the market. It does this by fusing PACE’s proven security technologies into a unified toolkit built specifically for AI use cases.

Fusion AI provides:

• Model encryption and key protection: AI model weights are encrypted and decryption logic is secured so sensitive data is never exposed, even during execution.
• Secure, tamper-resistant packaging: Model code, runtime, and weights are bound into a hardened binary that resists reverse engineering and code lifting.
• Usage control and monetization: Built-in licensing and entitlement management allow publishers to control deployment, enforce entitlements, and protect revenue.

Fusion AI draws on decades of PACE’s security expertise—combining White-Box Works for cryptographic key protection, Fusion for anti-tamper and code hardening, and iLok Licensing for deployment control—to deliver a holistic AI protection solution trusted across industries.

Download the Fusion AI brochure to learn more about how it safeguards your AI models and helps protect your competitive edge.