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irdeto_irdeto 26/02/2015 10:21 Page 1 t is crucial that providers can make their OTT, TV Everywhere proposition appear seamless to the subscriber,” says Andrew Wajs, chief technology officer for Irdeto. “Behind that lies a big investment in infrastructure to enable things like web technologies to “I OTT is disruptive technology, but pay-TV providers must turn it to their advantage Andrew Wajs tells Advanced Television. can we do to stop it or at least make the piracy experience as frustrating as possible.” “Because all devices are connected, the reason people will attack devises will change: people’s viewing history and personal data may be vulnerable, an operator may be vulnerable to ransom malware and denial of service attacks. They’re low probability but very high impact if they occur. So content security is really about sports, but the non-linear habit will mean everything else will be IP.” “With live events, of course, the main piracy is in re-distribution. We are constantly monitoring for pirate streams and the first line of defence is take down notices with the ISPs. In the World Cup this had an effectiveness of 50 to 60 per cent in real or near real time and we constantly work on those relationships to improve that. The other approach is to watermark and monitor and identify the source of the illegal stream and shut it down.” “Unfortunately we often see, particularly in OTT, that the usability, presentation and video quality of pirate streams is actually very good; it’s often comparable to locally available pay-TV services. This is the real threat to services in the long run. The “Make your service as compelling as possible” Using the data OTT delivers access metadata around content to give a common look and feel across all the different devices the user can access the service on.” “I think speed to market for TV Everywhere is very important, even if it means fixing up a few problems afterwards. This is because a key driver for piracy is if you don’t have a solid service offering. Certainly in security it presents a new paradigm. Before it was all about making sure the smart card wasn’t hacked. Now there are different threats; the re-broadcast of content – that’s definitely a big growth area, the other area is attacks on the unmanaged devices used in TV Everywhere.” “This is where you need a managed security solution. There will always be multiple DRMs and I think we are showing that’s quite possible to cope with. Some of the standardisation that is coming – like MPEG-DASH and the common container format - will help, it holds the promise of encrypting once and then using multiple DRMs for the same piece of content.” “What we feel is becoming more important is managing the complexity around DRMs and around the piracy management - we know content is going to leak and it is a more complex problem to say where is it leaking, how is it leaking, what monitoring and forensics, when it comes to devices it is less about content and more about other services that are going through those devices.” “Smart homes, home automation, brings that vulnerability into the home and the crucial thing is to think about it in terms of Internet security – how you lock down devices; a lot of work now is about how you can embed security modules inside devices which are providing real time monitoring and real time access control at a software level. So, if an applications starts up a process within t H]