Companies Fail to Safeguard their Video Content 

Vbrick finds many companies are unwittingly vulnerable to attack 

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Companies Fail to Safeguard their Video Content 
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Published: August 2, 2022

James Stephen

Technology Journalist

Limited awareness of video security is exposing organizations to serious vulnerabilities and potential loss of confidential data and IP.  

Video security is a real issue, with 22 billion records exposed in 2021 due to data breaches and 50% of video streaming services saying that security breaches had negatively impacted user experiences.  

In spite of the threats to enterprise video content during video creation, live video streaming, and on-demand video storage, many companies remain dangerously underinformed. Vbrick is seeking to demonstrate the value that its video security solution can provide.  

Terry Medhurst, Chief Information Officer at Vbrick, said: “Our team has taken a holistic approach to our solutions security architecture. Building up from best-in-class infrastructure and layering on solution-specific application controls and industry-recognized operational best practices.  

“We are able to control the entire video workflow, from ingesting the video source, through management and distribution. With no dependency on 3rd party solutions.  

“Having an ecosystem that covers both cloud-based or office-based viewers with large audiences and distributed locations is one of the areas that differentiate us.  

“We apply the same level of security and encryption to video streams that are being played on the customer’s network as we do when video streams are played over the Internet.”  

Vbrick runs on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and has the industry’s only FedRAMP-certified enterprise video platform (EVP). Its encryption technology protects video content when it is ‘at rest’ and ‘in transit’.  

The EVP is GDPR compliant and SOC 2 audited, simplifying audits and making meeting compliance and regulation requirements easier.  

The solution supports customers’ governance requirements by allowing integration with retention policies, permission management, and auditing activities.  

According to IBM’s 2021 “Cost of a Data Breach Report”, the average cost of a data breach is now $4.24m.  

Not only are data breaches expensive, but they are also damaging to an enterprise’s reputation, which may affect its customer loyalty.  

According to Vbrick, “you need an enterprise video platform purpose-built for security to protect your corporate data, secure live streams, control access, and meet the most stringent security and compliance standards”.  

Medhurst has observed threats to video security, including stream hijacking, commonly known as, ‘Zoom bombing’ in which someone introduces malicious content into the video stream, and more.  

He says Vbrick builds application-specific security features on top of the infrastructure, which prevents stream hijacking by validating access to the stream itself. It also allows you to review and approve video content before publishing.  

Vbrick’s EVP can integrate with third parties, but the solution does not rely on third-party software. Vbrick fully manages both the cloud environment and the distribution.  

Some companies may be concerned about using cloud storage solutions like Microsoft SharePoint. Medhurst pointed out that generic cloud storage can provide excellent features for controlling access, but problems can occur when it is not correctly configured and those configurations lack visibility.  

Vbrick takes the approach of allowing organizations to leverage their existing investment in Active Directory to assign permissions to Rev, creating an optimal mix of centralized management but delegated authority. 

Medhurst said about its future video security projects: “We are focussing on the fundamentals and storage distribution, ensuring that sources are secure and we have integrations with certain niche solutions.  

“We will continue to build on existing functional capabilities such as transcription to enrich our customers understanding of what is locked into a particular video to help solve customer compliance challenges.  

“Data loss prevention, whether it be unintentional or malicious, is a priority for us. 

Some companies are also concerned about internal video leaks following a recent incident of an employee sharing an internal company video with the press. To prevent this from happening, Vbricks upcoming release will encode the identity of the user viewing the video to deter malicious activity. 

If you want to learn more about Vbrick’s video security, visit its website. 

 

 

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