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The technologies and infrastructures within the media and entertainment sector are growing increasingly complex and integrated as parts move to the cloud, achieve real-time collaboration, and the number of tools expands, according to industry experts.

That forward-thinking conversation provides the industry with insights on how aspects of content and information security are increasingly converged, and how Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and on-prem managed-services solutions are having to integrate.

“Those of you that are familiar with Signiant are probably familiar with Signiant as a company that provides software solutions for transferring files fast and securely,”  Ian Hamilton, CTO at Signiant, said April 17, during the panel session “Platform Approaches to Complexity + Convergence” at the 2023 edition of CDSA’s Content Protection Summit at NAB (CPS@NAB).

But he said: “That puts us in the middle of the media ecosystem with people moving files from one place to the other. And we built out our solutions as a SaaS platform. So, on top of that, we have been able to layer capabilities that go beyond fast file transfer…. We’ve been able to build out other capabilities that help our customers manage the interaction with other companies in the media supply chain.”

He added: “At this point, our SaaS platform has a million users on it. It connects 50,000 businesses. And, through that, the security aspects of it that are quite attractive … you really can’t trust that anybody is who they say they are anymore. So being able to broker those connections between people is something that we are building on, on this SaaS platform that we’ve created.

During the session, attendees heard from industry leaders about their firms’ approaches to customers, as well as their product team internally, on how they can be effective in “securely managing” the complexity.

Verimatrix, meanwhile, is a company that’s been “primarily focused in the past on video content protection,” said Sebastien Braun, head of its Video Streaming Business and Product Management.

“Really today we are at the convergence of” cybersecurity, content protection, fraud protection,” Braun noted. Digital rights management and content protection alone are “not enough anymore,” he said, explaining: “You can see a lot of the ways that we distribute content today is extending to devices that we have really no clue about what’s happening on these devices. And all the while we are protecting the content, we’re now also protecting actually those devices with the primary focus of protecting the enterprise behind it.”

Jonathan Nguyen-Duy, VP, Global Field CISO at Fortinet was also a panelist during the session, which was moderated by Richard Atkinson, president and chairman emeritus of CDSA.

To view the session, click here.

The 2023 Content Protection Summit was presented by Fortinet and sponsored by Convergent, Signiant, Verimatrix, Eluvio, NAGRA, PDG Consulting and EIDR. The event was produced by MESA, in association with NAB and the Content Delivery and Security Association (CDSA).