SMNYC 2024: Synamedia's Robin Oakley Talks Stream Security and the Consumer Experience

At 流媒体纽约2024蒂姆·西格林，创始执行董事，帮助我流研究基金会, and 特约编辑，流媒体，采访Robin Oakley, Edge CDN解决方案高级总监， Synamedia. Oakley emphasizes the importance of a proactive approach to security and highlights the company's work with the common access token format, a CTA Wave initiative that aims to create a common CDN token syntax that can be used across multiple CDNs. He also touches on the challenges of protecting content while maintaining a quality experience for the consumer and the increasing sophistication of piracy.

Siglin asks Oakley to discuss his current role at Synamedia and his most recent prior job.

奥克利说:“我进入Synamedia已经四个月了. “我被请来领导Edge CDN产品, which is all about putting CDN at the edge as close to the view as possible. 在那之前，我在 DAZN, a sports streaming company where I was running the distribution engineering team, streaming some of the biggest sports events in some of the biggest countries around the world.”

Synamedia保护流的方法

Siglin asks Oakley to talk about Synamedia保护流的方法.

Oakley says a common issue with CDNs is that they all want to implement security measures differently. “So part of the work that Synamedia has been doing has been with the common access token format, 哪个是CTA Wave倡议,” he says. “很多问题是, 如果你在一个多cdn环境中, 你必须通过你最大的联系来工作, 而你的薄弱环节可能会一直延续下去, 这可能仍然是一个弱点. So, really, everything's got to be secure without it being secure. 所以我们喜欢与标准合作，我们喜欢创新.” He also notes that pirating has gotten increasingly sophisticated. “I think it's highlighting the need for CDN providers and CDN vendors like ourselves to lean in more to the problem and bring more to the party.”

Siglin asks, “So, 围绕这种公共访问的互操作性模型, 这是一种最低公分母的互操作性吗, 或者它是一个相当健壮的互操作性?”

“We'd obviously want to make it a fairly robust interoperability,” Oakley says. “So include all the key things broadcasters want from their token exploration -- geography, kill time, 诸如此类. And develop it further because you may have a ticket to the game, 你可以把它给我, 但那真的是侵犯了你的权利, 比赛的门票. 那么你怎么知道你是谁，并证明这一点呢?”

Protecting content while maintaining a quality consumer experience

“So how do we protect the content and the quality of experience for the consumer?西格林问道.

Oakley says this is crucial since there is a risk of the viewer feeling ostracized or alienated by too much security. “Let's say you start introducing two-factor authorization every time you want to sign onto something,” he says. “That could just have the opposite effect of driving your viewers to piracy. And I've worked in distribution all my career and my philosophy is that people know you've done it right if you've not done anything at all. 因此，您需要使这些测量快速且不引人注目. 代币就是一个很好的例子, where we're using a long-lived token on the URL and are now implementing that. 广播公司开始使用不可见的水印. 但你也要做得迅速而突出. 你可以看到海盗变得越来越老练, 即使有不可见的水印, with four, five, or six pirates working together to share part of the video delivery, 试图破坏令牌序列. So it's trying to do that and the processing power that's required to do that quickly, securing it without kicking a false positive or kicking a viewer out. 所以你一定要小心.”

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