Irdeto, a world leader in digital platform security, announced a strategic partnership with Aspera, an IBM company and creator of technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed. The new partnership enables forensic watermarking capabilities which insert watermarks in real-time with no impact on delivery quality or speed.

“The content industry needs a fast, secure way to deliver content and be able to trace and track it throughout its lifecycle,” said Richard Frankland, VP of Americas, Irdeto. “Forensic watermarking is an essential security element of a comprehensive content protection program. For the first time, Irdeto’s partnership with Aspera will bring together industry-standard content distribution and security technologies into an end-to-end solution with comprehensive managed services. This is a holistic approach that saves both time and money.”

By combining Irdeto Tracemark™ with Aspera’s FASP® transfer technology, content owners and distributors can rapidly and efficiently deliver and receive content all over the world while protecting it against redistribution piracy.

“Our joint solution with Irdeto represents an exciting progression in the use of forensic watermarking in combination with high speed data transfer,” said John Wastcoat, VP Business Development, Aspera. “In even the most difficult of broadband environments, we give content distributors a more efficient way to offer high-quality movies and TV shows without forsaking the advanced monitoring and detection capabilities that watermarking brings.”

Aspera’s patented technology securely moves large files at maximum speed, and through this partnership, Aspera will now incorporate Irdeto Tracemark. Irdeto Tracemark is a unique, robust and invisible mark embedded to identify each individual content stream. Tracemark works in conjunction with Irdeto’s Online Piracy Detection Service to make it quick and easy for content owners and broadcasters to trace back to the source of a leak. It is also tamper resistant and incurs no additional overhead per digital distribution source.

Ian Harvey, SVP Advanced Technology, Twentieth Century Fox, for instance, said: “The Irdeto and Aspera partnership was essential in order for Fox to deploy a forensic watermarking solution seamlessly without affecting the user experience and having minimal impact on the workflow. This managed service and end-to-end solution will greatly improve the transfer of large forensically marked files to our customers, allowing for rapid sharing while enabling premium content tracking to help manage redistribution piracy.”

By MediaBUZZ