How To Trust Your Player

Building an OTT Service for Today’s World

This article and video series, presented by Bitmovin, Friend MTS and Intertrust, covers how to secure the delivery of your OTT Service content from origination all the way through to the end user via browser-based players. Following the best practices we outline, will ensure that you are protecting your content and revenue from the technology side as well as the ultimate end-user side.

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Stan Moote

Stan Moote

CTO

IABM

Moderator


Tom Kuppinen

Tom Kuppinen

Senior Sales Engineer

Bitmovin

Panelist


Alan Ogilvie

Alan Ogilvie

Lead Product Manager

Friend MTS

Panelist


Ali Hodjat

Ali Hodjat

Product Marketing Director

Intertrust

Panelist


How you secure the delivery of your OTT Service content from origination through to the end user via browser-based players ultimately determines to what extent you are protecting your content and revenue from the technology side as well as the end-user side. In this webinar, we will hear how the different components that make up these services – and the relationships between them – are critical in forming an anti-piracy plan without gaps, specifically:

  • The Content Distribution Chain
  • Encoding + Secure MultiDRM Packaging
  • Implementing the player and hardening the browser playback environment to mitigate attacks
  • Securing DRM License Acquisition
  • When and why watermarking is used, how it works in practice with monitoring, and what are common watermarking attacks?
  • How can you trust the human element, or the end ‘Player’?

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Original date: 2020-11-18

Article 1 - Tips from the top: Secure content delivery and playback

Authors

  • Joshua Shulman, Digital Marketing Specialist, Bitmovin
  • Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS
  • Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust

How To Trust Your Player is a collaborative effort between Bitmovin, Friend MTS and Intertrust. Our goal is to educate media and content providers on the importance of delivering streaming content in the most secure ways possible from the video player to the end-consumer while protecting both their content and revenue.

Launching an OTT service is a complex, labour-intensive, and expensive venture. There are challenges in content acquisition, preparation, and delivery to your audience. To help guide you in building and implementing an effective, protected OTT service, Bitmovin, Friend MTS and Intertrust have come together to share best practices on how to make sure your end users are as trustworthy as the technology you’ve implemented.



Published date: 2020-08-20

Article 2 - Securing Content Access with Digital Rights Management Best Practices

Authors

  • Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust
  • Nicolas Bredy, Senior Solutions Architect, Intertrust

Hackers have the technical skills to develop new ways to attack streaming services and leverage the same advances in streaming technology used by legitimate OTT service providers. They are constantly trying different attacks that target the multi-DRM platform to either extract the content keys, extract the DRM licenses, or try bypass license checking rules, and so on. This article reviews best practices that OTT streaming service providers should follow when using a multi-DRM service that protects their premium content.



Published date: 2020-09-02

Article 3 - Tips and Tricks: How to Secure Your Content in Challenging Streaming Environments

Author

  • Joshua Shulman, Digital Marketing Specialist, Bitmovin

Making streaming video content available AND secure in a browser environment can be challenging. In this third article, we discuss techniques on how to strengthen streaming defenses in Web-Based Environments and the golden rules to gaining and retaining trustworthy video players.



Published date: 2020-10-06

Article 4 - Beyond DRM: Watermarking Weighs In

Authors

  • Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS
  • Andy Wilson, Senior Product Architect, Friend MTS
  • Chris O'Brien, Engineering Manager, Friend MTS

There’s a lot at stake for OTT companies if their content strategy is incomplete - content, revenue and brand suffer when content pirates take advantage of gaps in the content distribution chain. In this article, Friend MTS discusses both the importance of implementing advanced watermarking techniques with monitoring and detection services as part of a complete solution as well as the importance of understanding who the end user or ‘player’ is, and whether they can be trusted.



Published date: 2020-10-22

Article 5 - From one end to the other: Protecting content from origination to playback, once and for all

Authors

  • Joshua Shulman, Digital Marketing Specialist, Bitmovin
  • Alan Ogilvie, Lead Product Manager, Friend MTS
  • Ali Hodjat, Product Marketing Director, Intertrust

The process of delivering streaming media content from origination through to a player device in a secure and protective environment is achievable. In the final How to Trust Your Player series article – Bitmovin, Friend MTS and Intertrust Technologies summarize the technologies that are critical in protecting content through the content distribution chain, key tips on how to best fill in the gaps between different security implementation services, and how the Human element plays a significant role in your content protection plan.



Published date: 2020-11-12