A groundbreaking approach to enhance the security and content access control for delivering Critical Data to Edge Devices using ATSC 3.0 Datacasting
PHOENIX, Jan. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- PEAK3, a leader in edge-device technology, and Cybrella, a renowned cybersecurity consulting service provider, have jointly released an insightful whitepaper proposing a groundbreaking approach to enhance the security and content access control for delivering Critical Data to Edge Devices using ATSC 3.0 Datacasting.
Edge devices are frequently used in critical infrastructure, healthcare systems, and industrial settings where the integrity and confidentiality of data are paramount. A breach in security can have severe consequences, including financial loss, reputational damage, and even physical harm. Prioritizing cybersecurity when delivering data to edge devices is essential to protect against potential cyber threats, maintain data integrity, and ensure the overall security of your network and systems.
Alp Sezen, PEAK3: "Evolving the ATSC 3.0 security infrastructure is crucial for market demand and scalability. Our proposed solution ensures secure multiplexing, supporting a diverse range of applications sharing broadcast capacity."
The current ATSC 3.0 Security, as defined by A/360, focuses on managing ATSC3.0 receivers, with limitations on securing shared Datacasting broadcast data. The proposed approach introduces significant improvements, including secure transmission over a shared broadcast channel, secure sharing among multiple customers/groups, access control for shared broadcast content, and robust billing management.
Key Features of the Proposed Approach:
1) Secure Broadcast Infrastructure: Introduces a Key Manager, Multicast Stream Encryptor, and ATSC 3.0 Scheduler to ensure secure transmission, encryption, and scheduling of broadcast content.
2) Session Key Management: Defines Broadcast Session Keys (BSK) and Broadcast Session Groups (BSG) to facilitate secure encryption and decryption of user data.
3) Receiver Registration: Describes a user-friendly registration process for receivers, ensuring secure deployment and connectivity with the Key Manager.
4) Access Control and Billing: Enables granular control over access to broadcast content, allowing the Key Manager to manage access based on billing status and other criteria.
Future-Proofing with Quantum Key Distribution:
The whitepaper also explores the future integration of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) as a response to the threats posed by quantum computing to existing encryption methods. It highlights the potential of QKD in providing unbreakable and hack-proof encryption, ensuring secure communication.
Franklin A Jackson, Cybrella: "This innovative approach addresses current limitations and prepares the ATSC 3.0 community for future challenges, including the rise of quantum computing."
Evolving the currently specified ATSC 3.0 security infrastructure will be key to enabling growth and scalability across a heterogenous set of customers and applications that must share the broadcast capacity to support the needed economic and monetization model to offset the decline of advertising from linear content.
Many of the potential use cases will not be able to have a return path, or the requirement of a return path, will add adoption friction and cost. The proposed solution only requires an Internet connection during the initial registration. Afterwards, full transmission security and access control can be achieved reliability without requiring a return path.
With the current security specification, there is no defined way to enforce access control for billing on a per receiver or per customer basis. Without the ability to track and revoke access, a subscription-based model is difficult to manage and enforce without relying on a customer to operate and report in good faith. How many units have been deployed? What does the service provider do when a customer fails to pay? Furthermore, most customers won't want to track this information even if they are operating in good faith. The proposed solution solves these very real monetization problems by providing a mechanism to seamlessly track deployed receivers and revoke access with a high degree of granularity without requiring an operational return path.
The ATSC 3.0 community must evolve the existing Datacasting security specification and available capabilities to address these concerns as well as the impending future obsolescence of AES-256 and PKI infrastructure to protect, grow and monetize the ATSC 3.0 Datacasting spectrum.
For more information and to access the full white paper, please visit https://peakthree.io/in-the-news/
About PEAK3 (http://www.peakthree.io)
PEAK3 has a long-term engagement with the spectrum owners to offer this alternative data highway to its many technology partners, its enterprise clients, and to its engineering teams to further develop novel applications where the ATSC 3.0 value proposition can enable the edge-device community. From hardware architecture through the application layer, the PEAK3 team has a rich history of successful enterprise edge deployments and IT system designs and operations.
We recognize the unique value proposition ATSC 3.0 provides in delivering secure, efficient, data-delivery methods to the edge. The foundation of our business model is Data-Streaming as a Service for organizations wanting to efficiently get data from one point to many.
PEAK3 provides a standards-based, open, end-to-end, nationwide, wireless, IP, multicast network. In simple terms, we provide a cost-effective datacasting pipe for Internet Service Providers, public and private cloud providers, and any organizations operating large edge device architecture.
About Alp Sezen (Author)
A highly reputable, 30+ year Executive with multiple disciplines on the global technology stage. Positions range from Global Sales Leadership and Business Development to Global Design and Strategy for Product Deployment and Support. Strong track record of start-up implementation and scale in segments ranging from VOIP to Long-range Communication solutions for the Railroad Industry.
His efforts and solutions have positively impacted a wide range of industries from; Military applications, Medical, Telco, parallel computing, Industrial, Retail, Oil& Gas, Enterprise IT, storage solutions and currently AI, 5G and distributed edge computing technology implementations.
About Cybrella (http://www.cybrella.io)
Cybrella is a leading Cyber Security consulting service provider based in the US, providing exceptional advisory services worldwide. Cybrella Inc was founded as a US incorporation delivering leading-edge solutions and high-end consultancy to various customers in Cyber Security.
Our unique expertise in cyber security allows us to be the best in what we do, from our employees' expertise that includes a broad range of professional experience and a credible and proven record of accomplishment of certification in the fields of communications, applications, databases, and cloud platforms.
About Franklin A Jackson (Co-Author)
Franklin is the current Chief Operating Office of Cybrella, Inc. He is a recognized industry Cyber Security authority and leader in digital transformation, with substantial experience in steering multiplatform enterprise security solutions. His background includes developing and managing Cyber Security as an enterprise-wide strategic issue in government, medical and financial sectors. He is an expert in cloud and security technologies, providing governance and risk-based security. He has an entrepreneurial approach to developing fast-paced advisory services programs, under extreme budget and time constraints and holds a Department of Defense Active Secret Clearance.
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