DRM protection solutions for cable / satellite / IPTV services
Premium television and video-on-demand services are prime targets for hackers, content pirates and subscription fraud.
"We believe Cloakware has the security solutions that the cable industry needs to deploy their next generation initiatives and we look forward to partnering with operators to help them do that. We are particularly pleased that Irdeto will be the first conditional access provider to bring the Cloakware solution to market in North America."
- Andrew Wajs, CTO, Irdeto Group
Set-top boxes and their associated conditional access systems (CAS) and digital rights management (DRM) technologies are under constant threat of attack, where widespread security breaches can significantly impact the reputation and bottom line for content owners, operators and device manufacturers alike.
These risks are compounded by the fact that today’s consumers expect more from their content service providers. The “couch-based” consumption of real-time premium video is evolving to include time-shifted and on-demand services accessible from multiple TV’s, personal computers and portable media devices. These new consumption models are driving new requirements into the digital home ecosystem, creating complex security challenges for premium content distributors.
Traditional hardware-based approaches to securing CA systems have proven to be inflexible, and are costly to update when breaches occur. That’s why many of the world's leading content protection companies choose software-based security from Cloakware to protect their CA systems.
Operators who deploy Cloakware-protected CA systems eliminate their dependence on hardware security, and gain the ability to quickly react to threats by proactively updating devices in the field.
Software-based security from Cloakware:
- Prevents piracy and subscription fraud
- Protects against tampering attacks
- Provides a secure platform for distribution of premium-quality content
- Extends the life-span of set-top boxes with renewable security
- Protects cryptographic keys and billing transactions
- Enables new markets and services with software-only CAS
- Reduces time to market and lowers cost of ownership
Multi-pronged approach reduces risk
Cloakware’s protection strategy is built upon four key security cornerstones that help lower risk for operators.
Cloakware’s layered protection approach
Strong initial attack resistance
Using techniques such as white-box cryptography, code transformation and integrity verification, Cloakware builds-in multiple layers of protection to fortify software against tampering, reverse engineering and content theft.
System diversity
By deploying functionally equivalent but structurally diverse instances of software, operators can limit the scope of an attack to small portion of their installed base.
Software renewability
A flexible software-based approach ensures that security can be easily updated or modified after deployment, allowing operators to stay one step ahead of would-be content pirates.
Breach management
To help prevent and mitigate the scope of an attack, Cloakware’s breach management service can identify potential threats and vulnerabilities, analyze attacks and quickly develop effective countermeasures.
Breach mitigation and management
Software and content-protection solutions
Cloakware has built its reputation on delivering state-of-the-art solutions for the media and entertainment industry. Our consulting and design services offer expert guidance and resources to help operators develop a comprehensive security strategy encompassing the entire digital home ecosystem, while our software developer tools and pre-hardened content protection solutions can help device and application developers mitigate risk and achieve faster time-to-market.
To learn more about securing the products in the digital home, download our whitepaper on Security Impacts of Next-Generation Set-Top Boxes.
