Security

Overview

Security and protection of video content, as well as subscriber data, is a top priority for content owners, aggregators and distributors across the streaming media value chain. Breaches in security can not only undermine subscriber trust and confidence, but threaten revenue as well. The Privacy and Protection Working Group is focused on defining a variety of content and service-level entitlements that are implemented by the programmer or operator and enforced within the network or client to impose content and network usage rules as well as best practices on handling privacy of consumer information related to streaming video.

Objectives

The Streaming Video Technology Alliance Privacy and Protection Working Group has three objectives. First, to identify critical data elements to collect for subscription-based online streaming video services; second, to describe the different methods by which to safeguard this data during storage and usage; and third, to define best practices for safeguarding video content from unauthorized access or theft.

Presentations

Below are presentations delivered during working group sessions. Click on the presentation name to open it (many files are for members only and will require authentication) and a presenter name to view their profile. Note: if a presenter’s profile is not public, it will redirect to their LinkedIn page.

Carlsbad F2F: Privacy and Protection WG Slides

  

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Costs of Piracy (SVA Lisbon)

  

Presented by Lawrence Low

History of Piracy

  

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Licensing: Setting the Protection Bar

  

Presented by Andy Lucas

Presented by Arthur Cuyugan

Privacy and Protection WG Session

  

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Privacy Working Group OTT Streaming Security Checklist

  

Presented by Brian Paxton

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Privacy Working Group CDN Protection Best Practices

  

Presented by Brian Paxton

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Current Issues in Content Security

  

Presented by Alex Lee

Privacy Working Group Session

  

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Challenges and Concerns with VPN Use by Residential Customers

  

Presented by Brian Paxton

Privacy Working Group Session Presentation

  

Presented by Brian Paxton

Presented by Kei Foo

Presented by Ken Gerstein

Presented by Mike Wilkinson

Survey of Streaming Security Threats

  

Presented by Brian Paxton

State of Video Piracy

  

Presented by Rodrigo Fernandes

Presented by Molly Belson

Presented by Norbert van der Laan

Secure the CDN

  

Presented by Jon Herd

Securing Streaming Media Paper Update

  

Presented by Matt Tooley

Sky Security Overview

  

Presented by Kieron Edwards

Watermark Scalability

  

Presented by Jaap Haitsma

Presented by Jean-Philippe Plantevin

Watermarking Latency

  

Presented by Alain Durand

Documents

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SVTA5009: Forensic Watermarking Implementation Considerations for Streaming Media

The piracy of online video content is a significant issue for content owners and distributors. This document explains the technology of watermarking and how it can be employed, in various methods, to secure video against theft.

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SVTA5019: Securing Streaming Video

The ability to prevent piracy, take down illegal content, and act against illegal sources are key objectives of content protection. Meeting these objectives requires the use of a variety of technologies including watermarking, Digital Rights Management (DRM), fingerprinting, and cryptography. This document examines and discusses the streaming video system to provide best practices for protecting and securing streaming video content for both content providers and distributors to ensure content is being used as intended by those who it was intended.

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SVTA5054: Securing Media Players

This document identifies the vulnerability points inherent in streaming video players and proposes some of the industry best practices to ensure content is protected while not impeding viewer access or a high-quality viewing experience.

Draft

Note that to download draft documents, you must be an employee of an active member company with an ARO account. If you are part of a member company and don’t yet have an ARO account, you can request one here.

This group does not currently have any draft documents.

Participating Companies