Technologies that enable users to copy Internet files and streams without permission have become readily available, making it difficult for media companies to protect and fully monetize content. Progressive downloads and streaming media are susceptible to pirating with free web tools and require only a single mouse-click to copy content. Ripping technologies either pull content from cache or tap in and copy streams.

If your organization is concerned about protecting copyrighted content from the growing number of pirating technologies appearing on the horizon, Tata Communications offers CDN Secure. As a suite of security products that enables protection for copyrighted content, CDN Secure, includes SecureAcess and CacheControl and built on top of Tata Communications’ core content delivery platform.

We offer security options that ensure the secure distribution of your copyrighted content

SecureAccess™

The SecureAccess™ feature is a set of tokenized URL access protection mechanisms, allowing to filter access to your content based on multiple criterias such as:

-	Geoblocking & white/black-listing
-	User Agent filtering
-	IP ranges filtering
-	Short Lived URLs

SecureAccess can be used together with AdvancedProgressive and RateThrottling

Features

• Support for access limitation based on customer-selected parameters
• Provide control to limit access based on geographic location, time, IP addresses or other custom parameters
• Easy to integrate with existing web architecture

CacheControl™

CacheControl™ is a server oriented technology that ensures that all content or specific content types are not cached at the users’ browser. This works for video-related web sites without any 3rd party media players.

Normally, web content is cached at the hard drive while a web page is accessed and CacheControl ensures that the web content is not stored in the hard drive.CacheControl is a hard server setting, ensuring that malevolent users cannot bypass the protection based on client-side workarounds.

CacheControl is offered together with SecureAccess™.

Features

• Cache clearing: content is cached to the hard drive while a Web page is active and when the page is closed, the cached files are removed from the hard drive.
• No Cache: Content is not cached on the hard drive

• Protect Copyrighted Content, by limiting access to authorized users
• Simple to integrate with existing web architecture
• Protection based on clearing or non-caching to user hard drive.
• Server side setting, hence no end user intervention required
• Security solutions come along with our CDN product base
• Security solutions can be used in addition to LiveBroadcast product