Media & Entertainment

Protecting content and its distribution has always been critical to the media and entertainment industry. Secure-IC ensures compliance with movie production standards and addresses specific challenges such as access management, premium content distribution and data security and protection.

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Every year, millions of dollars in revenue are lost by studios because of piracy and theft of premium content. With the emergence of enhanced premium content such as 4K Ultra HD and HDR, Hollywood studios need new security measures derived from cryptographic solutions and advanced Digital Right Management (DRM) solutions. Premium content protection now a concern at every point in the consumption lifecycle.

Protecting premium content from theft has always been important for cybersecurity in media & entertainment industry, as data is actually the core business of this industry. Millions and millions of bytes of content are stored by companies for assets used in movie making, whether live-action or animation, the theft or tampering of this data or any pirated content in general would mean years of lost work and considerable amounts of lost investment; all because security was not sufficient.

Entertainment is not just about movies and TV shows; it is also about video games which have been gaining massive interest in recent years, with a multi-billion dollar industry. Thus, security is as important to this industry as any other, whether it deals with digital content protection that gaming companies release or protecting the players themselves.

The specific security challenges for Media & Entertainment

Secure Endpoint: Security hardening for the whole device fleet (such as gaming consoles or set top box)
- Protect embedded devices
Security Monitoring & Management:
- Lifecycle management and how to address security/anomaly events
Secure communications:
- Secure connection between connected devices between themselves and also Cloud.

Media & Entertainment Security Solutions

Thanks to the core expertise and experience of its founders involved for several years in the media & entertainment activities and as member of the UHD Forum, Secure-IC enhances content protection by offering an innovative end-to-end solution in respect with the lastest laboratories recommendations.

Secure-IC’s PESC approach is built on a portfolio of security products and services that, when combined, create a deep security by design that protects the very foundation of your industry.

Protect

Evaluate

Service & Certify

Protect

Securyzr^TM Server for lifecycle management, device onboarding/offboarding and secure firmware update over the air.
Protection of content linked to security standards pushed by movie productions (Hollywood, etc.)

Evaluate

Laboryzr^TM: Security Evaluation
- Hardware Trojans
- Hardware/Software penetration testing
- Laboryzr^TMtools can be suitable to the Media & Entertainment industry:
  - Analyzr^TM, evaluation tool to validate the security level of real physical chip/boards after foundry tape-out that enables ISO/IEC 17825, 20085
  - Virtualyzr^TM, an EDA Tool to assess the security design verification at all design levels (RTL, Post-Synthesis, Place & Route and Layout)
    - Helping the designer when building security
    - Testing product’s resistance to Side Channel Attacks

Service & Certify

Expertyzr^TM is Secure-IC’s expertise service, it constitutes of a number of services and trainings that could bring your business to the next level in terms of Security such as:
- Evaluation as a Service
- Support to certification & standards (DRM, ChinaDRM or Movielab)
- Defining the right architecture compliant with the DRM standard.

Standards & Certification to consider in Media & Entertainment

Security in the Media & Entertainment industry follows not only global security standards such as FIPS 140-3, Common Criteria or OSCCA, but also the standards that are put forward by movie productions (DRM, China DRM or Movielab).