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M&E Journal: Avoiding Cybercrime: Taking the Right Steps
By Mathew Gilliat-Smith, CEO, Fortium Technologies - Instances of content piracy are nothing new. Thieves have been stealing movies and television shows for decades, but recent ... More
NAGRA: From Portable Recorders to a Content Protection Powerhouse
Switzerland-based NAGRA — the digital TV division of the Kudelski Group — got its start nearly 70 years ago as the brand name of portable professional audio recorders. Today it... More
M&E Journal: Cloud Control Options for Content Production
By Usman Shakeel, Worldwide Technical Leader, Media and Entertainment, Amazon Web Services - M&E customers are using the cloud for a wide range of use cases, including many ... More
M&E Journal: Mitigating Cyber Risks Through Military Strategies
By Martin Mazor, SVP and Chief Information Security Officer, Entertainment Partners - These days, cybercrime is pervasive. Scan the news and you’ll likely run into informatio... More
M&E Journal: Entertainment Auditing Reaches a New Level
By Chris Johnson, Global Director, Anti-Piracy & Compliance Programs, Content Delivery & Security Association (CDSA) - This month marks 15 years that I have been activel... More
Azure: ‘Rapidly Evolving’ Security Threats Among ‘Key Challenges’ in Protecting Cloud Workloads
“Rapidly evolving” cybersecurity threats are among the “key challenges” that media and other organizations have today when it comes to protecting their cloud workloads, acc... More
M&E Journal: Digital Screeners: Walking the Security-Playback Tightrope
By Alex Nauda, Chief Technology Officer, MediaSilo - With piracy an ever-growing problem and high-profile hacks affecting multiple networks and streaming services, security is t... More
Scaeva Technologies: Rethinking the Science of Content Protection
Content theft continues to plague the media and entertainment industry. And Scaeva Technologies is looking at new ways to tackle the problem. Steve Curd, president and CEO of Sc... More
MESA’s Winter ‘M&E Journal’ Edition Goes Live
The winter edition of the “M&E Journal,” published by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA), and geared toward senior media and entertainment executives wh... More
Special Report: What You Should Know About Meltdown and Spectre
Widespread news reports about recently-discovered security vulnerabilities known as Meltdown and Spectre have many M&E security executives looking for answers about how severe ... More
Kaleidescape Adds NexGuard Tech to Protect Movie Server Content
High-end home entertainment movie server company Kaleidescape has announced a new partnership with NexGuard, integrating the Kudelski-owned content protection company’s forensic ... More
CDSA Content Protection Summit Tech Showcases in Review
CDSA's Content Protection Summit featured a series of exclusive, breakout workshops, providing attendees with expert insights into new security technologies and processes. These... More
ISE, HGST Talk Storage Security at Content Protection Summit
Erik Weaver, global director of media and entertainment market development for Western Digital’s HGST, looks at the storage needs for the industry today, and sees some solutions ... More
Putting Out the Fire of Content Security
The recent CDSA Content Protection Summit was memorable for more than just the tragic fires spreading throughout the Los Angeles area that morning. From a programming standpoint, h... More
Convergent Risks: Everything You Wanted to Know About GDPR (But Were Afraid to Ask)
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents the biggest shakeup to European privacy laws in more than two decades, but it’s not just European media and entert... More
M&E Security Takes Center Stage Dec. 6 at Content Protection Summit
For Harrie Tholen, managing director of Kudelski-owned content protection company NexGuard, securing content means so much more than looking after your bottom line. “By deploy... More
Taksati Consulting: Implementing Cybersecurity as a Business Enabler
Boutique cybersecurity consulting firm Taksati was founded a simple yet crucial premise: no two companies have the same security needs, and media and entertainment companies are be... More
WiTH Event to Run with Dec. 6 Content Protection Summit in L.A.
The Dec. 6 Content Protection Summit (CPS) being held at the Marina del Rey Marriott will also see the next Women in Technology: Hollywood (WiTH) workshop, this time with the theme... More
NeuLion, Rogers Media Look at DRM Content Protection Solutions
Beginning in 2014, Rogers Media began streaming live sports through its Sportsnet NOW service, offering up the NHL, MLB, NBA, the Premiere League, and more, all protected with AES-... More
Aspera, NexGuard: Watermarking’s Increasingly Important, But Not All Solutions are Created Equal
A growing number of media and entertainment companies are using watermarking as part of their security initiatives to combat piracy, but not all watermarking solutions are able to ... More