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Tim Pearson, senior director of product marketing for NAGRA, the security and digital TV division of Kudelski Group, came away from the recent CES show in Las Vegas with a realization: 2023 may be a unique one in terms of security.

“Security itself is a theme now, not just with companies, but with individuals,” Pearson said. “People are becoming a bit more mindful of its importance.”

Part of that increased awareness of security may be due to how increasingly connected everyone and everything is becoming. Kudelski and NAGRA made that evident themselves at CES, bringing a breadth of cybersecurity, IoT security and media and entertainment solutions together, with innovations that support smart homes, video service providers, ISPs, gaming studios, content owners, content producers and device manufacturers.

NAGRA Scout home automation solutions, which ensure advanced digital security against smart home cyber threats and arms service providers with behavioral insights for the optimal consumer experience inside and outside the home, was among the highlights for NAGRA at the show, along with the company’s Web3 solutions for metaverse, blockchain and NFTs.

“While these technologies are still in various stages of infancy, the Kudelski Group continues to be an innovator and pioneer, driving new developments in security that can help solve the business challenges of tomorrow,” the company said in a press release. “Kudelski Security demonstrate[d] its work with metaverse gaming platform provider Star Atlas, showcasing how developments in blockchain security and NFTs allow online gaming platforms to offer a next-level experience.”

On the anti-piracy front, NAGRA showed off its cloud-based offering that searches both the web and an extensive NAGRA case file library to quickly identify who is stealing content, a boost for content owners today considering the rise of OTT services across multiple device types and platforms, and an increasingly distributed and fragmented marketplace.

NAGRA also demonstrated its OpenTV Video Platform solution, which enables service providers to increase the relevancy of their brand by offering an aggregated experience that delivers their own content and the catalogs of other streaming services.