Live media production has always been a high-wire act. With tight timings, unforgiving audiences, and high-value rights on the line, live production is a world where stability is everything and any disruption quickly becomes a headline. Live production today is no longer contained within the walls of a single facility. It spans venues, OB trucks, cloud services, third-party studios, and remote teams. In this environment, the concept of a traditional network perimeter no longer applies. What replaces it must be smarter, more adaptive, and tailored to the specific needs of IP media workflows.
Net Insight – Putting media network security at the top of the IP agenda
IP is driving a new era of innovation and efficiency within the media industry, opening up more opportunities for growth and transformation. However, despite the potential of IP’s flexibility to adapt to configuration changes and scalability, there are also inherent challenges that media companies must navigate. As the industry transitions from traditional co-axial video interfaces to open IP-based workflows, network control and network robustness are critical priorities. Media companies need to ensure that their networks and high-value content are protected against both external and internal misconfiguration and stream routing issues.
Jigsaw 24 Media – Some hard truths about remote workflow security
When we reached out to production and post houses to find out about your approach to remote workflows and end-point security, we quickly discovered that the first rule of remote workflow security seems to be that you do not talk about remote workflow security. Because there’s a chance that sharing information about how you keep your content secure could be what puts your security at risk…and some of you are worried about revealing just how vulnerable your workflows are. When we did finally manage to convince a handful of post professionals and security specialists to break the silence, what they shared were some hard truths.
Ask the Expert with HPA
With this joint IABM/HPA session, the experts covered a wide range of topics including Movie Labs covering new scripted content, next generation architectures and workflows, immersive sound, Opera in VR, what’s changing in business models, acceptable quality and reliability, along with thoughts on security.
Protecting media content at a time when piracy is thriving
Crisis has always been a powerful catalyst for social change and there no doubt the COVID-19 pandemic is proving the same. As we adapt to the new normal the popularity of streaming services has grown dramatically as isolation creates more free time. Launched in November 2019, Disney+ recently announced that they have surpassed 50 million paying subscribers.
Along with that rise there’s been a similar rise in a whole range of cyber security threats on these streaming services. In fact, one of the key focus of Privacy Awareness Week is the importance of safeguarding personal information as we spend more time online.
Storage Panel Discussion
We were joined by our 3 BaM Award Store category finalists for this panel discussion.
Discussing Risk: Designing Resilient Media Supply Chains Panel
This panel of supply chain experts examine the state of business, operational and technical risk at media companies. With the pandemic accelerating established technology transitions such as the move to virtualized infrastructures, have media companies effectively managed the security risks that this transition implies. And what about the increasing use of data to drive media operations, will that pose new challenges that media professionals have not been accustomed to deal with? This session is laser focused on every type of risk encountered by media companies in today’s volatile media world. It is an ideal session for media technology professionals wanting to grow their awareness of new types of risks that could radically affect their work as well as how to manage them effectively.
Discussing Transformation – As-a-Service Economics Panel
This session features a panel who examine suppliers’ transition to as-a-service models. The expedited move to remote working caused by the pandemic has forced technology suppliers in the media industry to accelerate their transition from large and infrequent monetary inflows to smaller and more continuous cash streams. At the same time, the pandemic has also forced suppliers to prop up virtual and continuous engagement with their customers due to the absence of trade shows. What are the major implications of this for technology providers in the media industry? How do you plan, develop and price the new as-a-service offerings? How do you forecast revenue streams in a time of unprecedented change? We try to answer these questions with a panel of leaders at major technology suppliers in our industry who explore the challenges and benefits of as-a-service models, and how to make it work.
Flexible Development and Payment Models: Blackbird Interview
IABM Head of Knowledge Lorenzo Zanni interviews John Honeycutt, Non Exec Director at Blackbird about changing media technology sourcing models, including the increased propensity of media companies to insource technology operations as well as the benefits and challenges of cloud operating platforms.
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