Trust and provenance O ur increasingly globalised world does have many advantages: cultural exchange, greater economic access, remote connection. But as technology allows us to expand our reach –
As news headlines proliferate with the latest major data leak or security breach, there is more pressure than ever on broadcasters and streamers to ensure content is protected. We explore two major threats to content security: piracy and authenticity Words by Katie Kasperson
streaming video internationally, for instance – it also opens us to threat. Coupled with the fact that, thanks to generative AI, we are living in a world where what is ‘real’ can be difficult to discern, content authenticity and anti-piracy are more important than ever. In short, cybersecurity specialists have their hands full. Legacy broadcast technology was relatively secure; data could only be stolen if someone had physical access to the hardware on which it was stored. Now, with cloud-native storage and streaming, anyone – from anywhere in the world – can hack the software, provided they have the skills to do so. “Today, we put quadruple the effort into ensuring security than we did ten, 12 years ago,” begins Jon Corley, CTO at Wowza. “More threats abound,” he says, such as pre-release
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