NOVEMBER - 2018ENTERPRISE SECURITY| | 9encrypts the content transmitted from the CDN and ensures that the advertisements embedded are not subject to tampering. Today's 4G networks are already being surpassed by 5G, drastically improving bandwidth, capacity and reliability of mobile broadband. Mobile speeds of upward of 10 Gbps are a capability of 5G, a huge increase that will render next-generation wireless competitive with even the fastest fiber-optic wired networks. This new capacity will allow consumers to watch high definition video on their mobile devices and access virtual reality and augmented applications. In addition to these conventional improvements, 5G will incorporate internet of things and smart devices. The key concern will continue to remain cybercrime and the safety of our data. Cybercrime is ranked alongside terrorism as among the most serious threats. Quantum communications is one technology that could solve this problem. Unlike conventional key based encryption, quantum key distribution encodes the encryption key on light particles. Anyone attempting to hijack this type of key will change its state, effectively leaving a hacker fingerprint, alerting the sender and the receiver that their information security had been breached.The media supply chain necessitates limiting what is shared with vendors and suppliers and ensure that they safeguard the data, using it only for its intended purpose. While limitations are stated in contracts, organizations should also perform reputational and technical risk assessments confirming that these vendors can meet their obligations.In addition to all the above, we recently saw the evolution of blockchain technology, something that can make content available and secure from pirates while disrupting the media supply chain and media licensing. Although blockchain has been associated with bitcoin and other digital currencies, over the last few months, we have seen several startups and a few productions use blockchain as part of media broadcasting. Blockchain supports a decentralized distribution with transactions encrypted rendering cheating by changing or faking the transactions impossible. Agreed business rules, logic, and contract terms can also be programmed to automate transactions. These are known as `smart contracts'. This approach will soon become a transparent blockchain-based ledger that contains references to film and music assets and is used to control their rights. Smart contracts can then automate royalty payments based for accessing a movie, or a song including streaming.Media content is becoming more personalized. The complexity of content development and distribution cannot be trusted in the hands of third-parties, where they are susceptible to attacks and misuse. In the near future, content providers will combine a blockchain to be used for access control. With a decentralized platform, business decisions and legal decisions about collecting, storing and sharing sensitive data will be simpler. Commercial or regulatory constraints can be programmed into the blockchain itself for automatic enforcement. In other situations, since it is (computationally) tamper-proof,the ledger can act as legal evidence for accessing (or storing) data.All of these technologies rely on encryption in a different method than it has been used so far. Our industry is a contracts-based business that places a premium on the protection of intellectual property. Blockchain has the potential to increase profits for content creators and media companies and provide real-time consumption-based pricing. ESBlockchain has the potential to increase profits for content creators and media companies and provide real-time consumption-based pricingStephen Fridakis
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