Softlock believes of the importance of the scientific research to achieve unique products. For that reason the company took following steps to support the scientific research:

• Construct special department for the Research and Development
• Construct a team work consisting of several researchers and highly qualified developers
• Encourage the development of scientific papers and publish it in the international conferences
• Sponsor and Support many International Conferences
• Registration of patents for the innovative ideas and the unique products
• Supervise and support undergraduate student projects in the field of digital security

As a result of that support many unique products, published papers and registered patents are produced. In the following a list of the existing research projects:

• Develop Accurate Method to Identify Optical Disks
• Develop Efficient Cryptographic Accelerators
• Develop Efficient FP Recognition Accelerator
• Develop Efficient and Specialized Cryptographic Techniques
• Develop Secure Microcontroller, this is project is funded by DANIDA (Denmark)
• Develop LMS (License Management System) and DRM (Digital Rights Management) Specification language
• Develop Portable Executable Protector
• Develop Open Programming Environment to produce a Service Based Software Systems (Open SAAS), this is project is funded by FP7 (European Union)

Also Softlock supervise and manage following scientific conferences with cooperation with the Department of Computer and System Engineering, Ain Shams University.

• The 2006 International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES’06)
• The 2007 International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES’07)
• The 2008 International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES’08)
• The 2009 International Conference on Computer Engineering & Systems (ICCES’09)