CDSA

As the media and entertainment supply chain grows increasingly complex and interconnected, content creators understand that the risk they manage extends to all of the service provider partners involved in pre-release, according to industry experts speaking April 17, during the panel session “Connecting and Protecting the M+E Supply Chain” at the 2023 edition of CDSA’s Content Protection Summit at NAB (CPS@NAB).

During the session, panelists discussed how content protection executives are managing this process through their individual/business relationships, their business units/teams (it takes a village!), and through visibility within the Trusted Partner Network platform/industry initiative.

Moderator Guy Finley, executive director of CDSA, asked Terri Davies, president of Trusted Partner Network TPN), to provide the “lowdown” on what TPN was up to with its new TPN+ initiative.

“I joined TPN a year ago,” Davies recalled. A year ago, I stood on a stage at NAB and I laid out our new strategy and our new strategy – all credit to CDSA — was really building upon the foundation that you guys did. A wonderful, wonderful job. And really taking it to the next level. We needed to, for those of you who don’t know, TPN was launched during site assessments and [were] super successful in the first 18 months. I think we grew something like 350 percent. It was enormous.”

She added it was “very successful …. and then 2020 happened, as we all know, we all went home and it’s lockdown and those sites closed also. “And we saw the industry make a huge and rapid shift to the cloud,” she said. In the more than 10 weeks since launch on Feb. 6, we’ve got “close to 400 companies signed up, representing 47 countries, of which only 28 percent are in the U.S., so it’s truly a global community network.”

On Friday, Evercast became the very first application provider to receive the TPN Gold Shield, she said.

“The controls have evolved quite a bit, especially since TPN started,” recalled Rick Soto, SVP of Global IT and security at Pixelogic/Imagica.

He added: “It’s really kind of helped us really have a collaborative like platform where we can actually get [the]  single control base of the TPN platform….  For us as a vendor, it’s still quite difficult because we still work with many different customers [and] content owners. And to have a single location where we can have these controls and assessments. I mean, it’s been big for us. Especially with the cloud-based development and site security. We partner quite a bit with other security teams as well.”

Also speaking during the session were JT Gaietto, chief security officer at Digital Silence and Damien Stolarz, CEO of Evercast.

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).