Security & Anti-Piracy Consulting
Intellectual property in the entertainment industry can be defined as a manuscript, lyrics, a script, code for a game or even just a simple idea. This intellectual property is the lifeblood of these companies. Loss or theft of this IP could result in a loss of revenue in a best case scenario, and the collapse of an industry in the worst case. We are committed to reducing vulnerabilities and helping customers implement appropriate strategy and policies that are aligned with their specific business requirements in order to mitigate risk and optimize operations. Our job is to help you protect your assets in a manner that will not only mitigate risk on multiple levels, but improve the operability and profitability of your company.
The good news is that intellectual property loss, and how it happens, is predictable. Which means you can act preemptively, but intellectual property protection requires patience and tenacity. And most importantly, it requires a solid strategy, policy and acceptance across the company.
To protect your company’s intellectual property, you have to understand what is valuable to your company. To do that, you need to be able to define intellectual property for yourself.
Music
The industry that has been most affected by the advent of the internet and services like Napster and Kazaa has been the music industry, but in the coming years we will begin to see considerable impact on the software, film, and gaming industries.
Film
In the film industry, intellectual property translates to a loss in revenues that means the people working hard to develop films for the public also lose out. From the screenwriters to the prop masters and set designers, intellectual property theft affects the people whose livelihood depends on the legitimate revenues derived from theatres, DVD sales and rentals.
Video Games & Software
Games and software have been stolen since the beginning. Originally via disk copying and file sharing through pre-internet communities called Bulletin Boards, they are now being stolen on an exponentially higher basis. On top of the billions lost to piracy, source code and other intellectual property is finding its way into the hands of pirates and hackers, sometimes curtailing or stopping the release of the product altogether as per Valve’s Half Life 2 in 2003.
Protect your intellectual assets. The future of your company depends on it.
Protect the enterprise’s information assets, intellectual property and computer systems through technical operation and procedural safe guards. Beyond development of security strategy and policy, we provide independent security audits and assist in the architecture and implementation of appropriate computing systems to ensure that the integrity, confidentiality, non-repudiation and availability of information to end users is not compromised.
Services
Security Assessment
Developing an appropriate security program to protect your company from losses of sensitive data requires a deep understanding of the threats your organization faces. An important component of our delivery strategy is to ensure that we understand your business requirements and complete risk vulnerability and cost-benefit analysis to map your company’s assets and make a note of what is considered most valuable. This information serves to establish the balance between risk and security cost for your company, and establishes the risk tolerance of the company. Once we know what assets are at greatest risk of being stolen, we can translate your risk tolerance into the critical success factors for the project and begin the process of analysis, technical review, and high level recommendations.
Security Strategy
Once you understand that security is a strategy-driven process that boosts profit by reducing risk, you recognize the prudence of developing a vision of how your security must be closely aligned with your business vision. At this point the formalization of a corporate security strategy which will serve as the appropriate framework in which all of the company’s risks are carefully aligned with the overall business vision and objectives is crafted. As a core component to the company’s successful operations, this security strategy also provides opportunities to boost profits while decreasing risk.
Security Policy: Litigation avoidance
Progressive and innovative companies understand that a sound security policy enhances business performance and promotes customer trust and loyalty. Your infrastructure will be better and more uniformly managed, your employees will pose less of a security risk, and business partners will be more inclined to open their networks to you. Our specialists develop, prioritize, review, and refine security policies and supporting processes that meet regulatory requirements and strategic security goals and then assist in the education and training of key stakeholders in the company. Our methodology for creating a security policy framework helps clients build policies and processes that enable business growth and enhance the flow of information. Our capabilities in this regard include security policy framework development, regulatory compliance gap analysis and planning, merger and acquisition policy integration, and privacy policy analysis and advisory.
Technology Architecture
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