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More services, more
access, more
security headaches?
TV Everywhere on unmanaged networks and devices
is a real challenge for content security. Smart homes
and Internet of Things is about to up the ante again –
how are security providers preparing for the next era
of content and data protection. Advanced Television
gathered three top providers in London.
re higher prices promoting
piracy? Programme rights
holders –sports in particular
– are driving up costs for pay-TV
providers. This means higher prices
for subscribers and for the first time
surveys are indicating price is
becoming a reason to cord cut or cord
shave in many developed markets.
Are there any signs these price
pressures are also increasing piracy?
“What we definitely see is a shift to a
different type of piracy from where
people hacked the technology to now
having the broadband availability people
are using streams for rebroadcasting,”
explains Peter Oggel, VP products at
Irdeto, “the more valuable the content is
the greater lengths people will go to
provide it. So, from our perspective your
platform should be able to find infringing
content and take it down wherever it
shows up. There is still traditional
‘hacking’ piracy particularly in the
emerging markets but the trend to
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"We see is a shift to a
different type of piracy."
Peter Oggel,
Irdeto
14 TV Everywhere
Internet re-broadcasting is really
accelerating.”
“I think the trend is very exciting for
"Security is always a race
to stay ahead."
Fabrice Moscheni,
Fastcom
people working in security,” says Fabrice
Moscheni, managing director of Fastcom.
“Filled with a lot of opportunities where our
customers need people with services and
technology that can help them. Security is
always a race to stay ahead of the people
trying to steal. For us a very important part
of that is standardisation, this is a driving
force for protection but also to drive new
business models.”
“Before there was a focus on the card or
the environment of the set top box. Today
you think of the system more than just the
protection of the video content,” says Avi
Ben Simon, multi-DRM product manager
with Cisco. “You have to look at the end-toend solution. And we do have a new
opportunity here, with overall security.
Spotting the illegitimate streaming with
fingerprinting or watermarking and doing
that in a persistent manner. We look at our
offering as a package, as a system; service
protection, device protection, application
protection.”
“For us, the best providers of security are
the CA providers,” says Moscheni. “So the
question is ‘while maintaining a proprietary
solution, how can you have a standard
approach?’ and that’s what we do – provide
an environment in which proprietary
solutions are able to work in a standardised
way for the service provider. So, the door is
as secure and separate as ever but the key is
handled in a common way. This is what we
did with Foxtel – who use both Irdeto and
Cisco – and on their new set top called IQ3,
they have both CAS. We actually do the
licensing authority services and provide the
keys to the vendors to access the box. One of
the important elements of this approach is
access to the box is controlled by Foxtel.
This is important because a pay-TV operator
has to be much more reactive today because
time is money and this approach creates a
lot of opportunities around customer
orientation and new services.”
“I think the ‘lock-in’ that vendors used to
have is a thing of the past,” agrees Oggel.
“The RFPs I see these days all ask for that
flexibility and, therefore, licensing authority
services like our Keys and Credentials
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