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The pay-TV market and security issues
There is a constant risk to pay-TV operators that they may have their premium content pirated, resulting in a loss of revenues and prosecution from content owners. Defending against repeated attacks from the hacker community and reacting to breaches is a costly, ongoing battle for operators.
To overcome this risk, pay-TV operators need to deploy a robust conditional access and digital rights management (DRM) solution able to address different forms of piracy, particularly card sharing and control word redistribution.
Viaccess provides protection for card-based and cardless conditional access solutions and secures a full range of TV service models: live TV, catch-up, PVR, content sharing on home networks, video on demand,..These services necessitate advanced set top boxes (STB) and smart card security features.
Smart card security features:
The highest level of security is reached through a card-based system. To maximise protection against piracy and hacking, Viaccess is committed to developing a new generation of smart card every 18 to 24 months, based on state of the art chipset certified EAL5+. Viaccess’ latest generation of smart card is the proactive PC5 . Viaccess also supports financial risks with its customers though a payment scheme committing to free card swap in case of piracy.
Set top box security features:
Viaccess offers a large range of trusted STBs with state-of-the-art chipsets to protect against control word sharing and any software modification. To ensure the highest level of protection, Viaccess has developed a suite of security features such as:
- dedicated pairing between one smartcard and STB to restrict card sharing
- conditional access module lock to enable the STB to check the authorised cards
- output control to permit or forbid content transmission through analogue or digital outputs including digital living network alliance (DLNA) bridge
- fingerprinting to print the smartcard’s serial number on the screen with random position and time
- watermarking with third party technological partners to seamlessly mark the premium content with a unique identifier of the subscribers.
Viaccess multi device strategy also covers the protection of TV on PC through a secure dongle and CAMs including DVB-CI+ compliancy.
In addition to its proven expertise and reliability in security technology, Viaccess offers a unique 360° security approach that keeps operators at the forefront of anti-piracy:
- Legal protection through the prosecution of pirates
- An open communication policy on technology security status
- A continuous monitoring of security risks
- An active participation to major antipiracy associations (AEPOC, STOP, ALPA)
With more than 85 pay TV operators, Viaccess has developed a deep knowledge of its customers’ needs and a solid expertise in protecting their premium content with a ready, proven, globally recognised and integrated solution.
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Let's wait and see what happens. They are working on concepts but I don't believe that all this will come in the near future.
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The pay-TV market and security issues
There is a constant risk to pay-TV operators that they may have their premium content pirated, resulting in a loss of revenues and prosecution from content owners. Defending against repeated attacks from the hacker community and reacting to breaches is a costly, ongoing battle for operators.
To overcome this risk, pay-TV operators need to deploy a robust conditional access and digital rights management (DRM) solution able to address different forms of piracy, particularly card sharing and control word redistribution.
Viaccess provides protection for card-based and cardless conditional access solutions and secures a full range of TV service models: live TV, catch-up, PVR, content sharing on home networks, video on demand,..These services necessitate advanced set top boxes (STB) and smart card security features.
Smart card security features:
The highest level of security is reached through a card-based system. To maximise protection against piracy and hacking, Viaccess is committed to developing a new generation of smart card every 18 to 24 months, based on state of the art chipset certified EAL5+. Viaccess’ latest generation of smart card is the proactive PC5 . Viaccess also supports financial risks with its customers though a payment scheme committing to free card swap in case of piracy.
Set top box security features:
Viaccess offers a large range of trusted STBs with state-of-the-art chipsets to protect against control word sharing and any software modification. To ensure the highest level of protection, Viaccess has developed a suite of security features such as:
- dedicated pairing between one smartcard and STB to restrict card sharing
- conditional access module lock to enable the STB to check the authorised cards
- output control to permit or forbid content transmission through analogue or digital outputs including digital living network alliance (DLNA) bridge
- fingerprinting to print the smartcard’s serial number on the screen with random position and time
- watermarking with third party technological partners to seamlessly mark the premium content with a unique identifier of the subscribers.
Viaccess multi device strategy also covers the protection of TV on PC through a secure dongle and CAMs including DVB-CI+ compliancy.
In addition to its proven expertise and reliability in security technology, Viaccess offers a unique 360° security approach that keeps operators at the forefront of anti-piracy:
- Legal protection through the prosecution of pirates
- An open communication policy on technology security status
- A continuous monitoring of security risks
- An active participation to major antipiracy associations (AEPOC, STOP, ALPA)
With more than 85 pay TV operators, Viaccess has developed a deep knowledge of its customers’ needs and a solid expertise in protecting their premium content with a ready, proven, globally recognised and integrated solution.
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Let's wait and see what happens. They are working on concepts but I don't believe that all this will come in the near future.
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