Secustream 'Second-By-Second' Content Protection at IBC2007

August 29, 2007

Source: Secustream

Envisioning a world where any digital movie, video or game can be securely shared over any IP-based device, Norway-based Secustream Technologies has developed a novel way to protect streaming digital content – second by second.

Called SecuShow™, the patent-pending system is designed to prevent piracy before it can happen. The technology assigns a series of completely random media keys to each second of digital content being streamed via PCs, IPTV or other pay-per-view and on-demand set-top systems.

Unlike competitive technologies, the SecuShow access keys have no relationship to each other and are streamed separately on a low-bandwidth connection from a security server. The result: Digital content becomes impervious to automated attacks and simply too difficult and too time-consuming for a person to hack.

The technology is being demonstrated this week in stand 1.529 in Amsterdam at the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC2007), the leading annual event for multimedia content creation, management and delivery in the broadcast and entertainment industries.

"We looked at the source of today's digital-rights-management headaches – automated attacks – and set out to solve that problem," said Gisle Østereng, Secustream founder and CEO. "SecuShow provides unique protection for each second of content playback, making it incredibly time-consuming to break. It would be like one thief having to break into a thousand different banks with a thousand different security systems, instead of one bank with one system."

Secustream's proactive approach to content protection aims to help anyone from amateur videographers to major Hollywood studios to share and sell their creative and copyrighted works in a way that is affordable, high quality and secure. SecuShow is currently in customer trials, and the company is exploring further partnerships in the global PC, broadcast and IPTV space.

"Piracy and consumer rights continue to be a debate in the digital world," said Jon Peddie, industry analyst, Jon Peddie and Associates. "While the powers-that-be duke it out, Secustream has stepped in as a middleman offering a multi-level security system that meets the needs of content owners and consumers in a streaming media and `pay for play' media environment."

SecuShow is an end-to-end software system that is scalable and flexible for many streaming media applications. It supports standard video formats and encryption algorithms, while also supporting Windows, Apple, Linux, and set-top box environments.

The technology prevents reverse engineering, and it uses a series of unique software protection technologies to secure media content in rapid succession throughout playback, without compromising video quality.

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