CDSA Exclusive

 

M&E Journal: Keeping Production Data Safe

Jeff Impey, SyncOnSet — The complex, fast-paced workflow and sensitive nature of film production present unique security challenges never faced by many traditional organizati... More

M&E Journal: The EU Effect on Film and TV

By Peter Worrall, co-founder and director of research and marketing, Fortium Technologies — We all spent much of the summer obsessing about “Brexit,” the British electorat... More

CDSA Names New Chairman, Announces Officers, Committees for 2017

CDSA, the international content protection association, has named Ben Stanbury, director of studio content protection for Walt Disney Studios, its new Chairman.  Stanbury will dir... More

NSS Labs Names Brvenik CTO

Cybersecurity research and advisory company NSS Labs has named Jason Brvenik as its new CTO, bringing the security and systems design veteran over from Cisco. Most recently serv... More

CES 2017: NexGuard Looks to the Future of Distribution; Accenture Tackles AI

LAS VEGAS — Hollywood studios have long toyed with the idea of premium VOD — releasing new theatrical content early in the home — and some like Universal Studios have even ex... More

Dell’s Hansen: It’s Imperative That Every Company Has Cybersecurity Plan

LAS VEGAS -- It’s more important than ever for each company to have an effective cybersecurity strategy in place, after a tumultuous year that included the largest publicly-discl... More

MPAA: More Work Needed vs. Piracy Sites

The recently released United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) annual 2016 Out-of-Cycle Review of Notorious Markets — which identifies online and physical marketplaces world... More

Fortium, HGST at CPS: Selecting a Security Solution is Crucial Amid Piracy, Hacking Proliferation

Securing media and entertainment companies’ content — whether it’s a new movie or any of a company’s confidential stored data — remains important, but challenging, as pir... More

MESA Members at CPS: A Shift in Cyber Security Focus

Dec. 7 at the eighth annual CDSA Content Protection Summit (CPS), Wendy Frank, principal of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ cybersecurity, privacy and risk practice, shared an update on ... More

MediaSilo at CPS: Balance Asset Usability, Security

Piracy is no laughing matter for content owners. Yet Alex Nauda, lead developer for secure video sharing company MediaSilo, did manage to get a few laughs out of a serious subject ... More

Box at CPS: Adopt a ‘Zero Trust’ Mindset

Joel de la Garza, chief security officer at Box, knows what media and entertainment companies are going through when it comes to securing their content during its complete lifecycl... More

CPS Keynote: No Such Thing as Hackers Today

MARINA DEL REY, Calif. — It may sound like lunacy to those who’ve experienced a cyber security breach, but according to famed “spy-catcher” Eric O’Neill, a cybersecurity ... More

Hollywood Preps for Dec. 7 CDSA Content Protection Summit

Every year, the CDSA Content Protection Summit (CPS_ brings together Hollywood’s top cybersecurity, content protection and anti-piracy experts, with a full-day program featuring ... More

International Cybersecurity Policing Tackled at Dec. 7 Content Protection Summit

The U.S.-based International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) — the worldwide professional association for law enforcement — has spent 120-plus years being the collective... More

Copyright Enforcement: Carrot vs. Stick Discussed at Content Protection Summit

The cost of protecting your intellectual property shouldn’t prevent you from doing so, but sometimes that can be the case. That leaves content owners in a bind sometimes: should ... More

Production Security Budgets, Workflows to be Tackled at Dec. 7 Content Protection Summit

How are studios and production companies budgeting for the security needs of film and TV shoots, and what are the baseline measures needed to secure every project? Those are the... More

NSS Labs: Encrypted Web Traffic on the Rise

Cyber security research and testing company NSS Labs is seeing a stark rise in enterprises using both Secure Socket Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) encryption to sec... More

NSS Labs: Edge Browser Tops vs. Security Threats

Microsoft’s Edge browser — the company’s under-the-radar replacement for Internet Explorer — is less than a year old, and may not have the same name recognition as Firefox ... More

FBI ‘Spycatcher’ Eric O’Neill to Keynote Dec. 7 Content Protection Summit

Eric O’Neill, a cybersecurity expert and former FBI counter-terrorism and counterintelligence operative, will be the keynote speaker Dec. 7 at the eighth annual CDSA Content Prot... More

Cisco Considers New Anti-Piracy Approach a Game-Changer

For the longest time, content owners and distributors have had to tackle online piracy in a mostly legal fashion, sending notifications to search engines, web sites and hosting com... More

Sign up for our newsletters
* indicates required
MESA Newsletters