PAY TV SECURITY OVERVIEW

Piracy is an enormous challenge for companies in the pay television industry. Despite rigorous enforcement efforts, pay TV signal theft remains highly profitable for pirates and is responsible for billions of dollars of lost revenue each year.

Cryptography Research has designed its CryptoFirewall™ technology for a single mission: to preserve security, even if other components of the system are compromised. The CryptoFirewall is a separate, hardware-based security core that protects cryptographic keys and computations from attack.

The CryptoFirewall’s security architecture is designed to undermine the pirate “business model”. In addition to providing robustness against attack, the technology can help prevent any attacks that do occur from being repeated.