software
conditional access systems
The world's leading content protection companies choose Cloakware to secure their software and enable two-way digital networks that require software-based technology to provide the same security level as hardware. Cloakware has experience with conditional access (CA) and subscription systems that require the protection of keys and billing transactions plus the flexibility to create new business models.
The basis of these systems is Cloakware Security Suite, which delivers integrated security techniques that make security inseparable from software, enabling deployment on untrusted hosts and in the most hostile environments.
Conditional access providers tell us that that by using Cloakware's software protection to eliminate the dependence on hardware security and through the ability to download to devices in the field to renew security, operators experience the following benefits:
- Prevents piracy and subscription fraud
- Ensures integrity of security functionality against tampering
- Encourages premium-quality broadcast content
- Extends life-span of set-top boxes with renewable security
- Protects keys and billing transactions
- Software-only CAS enables new markets
- Mitigates damages to reduce costs, increase broadcaster trust and eliminate future offenses
- Lowers cost of ownership by reducing time and effort to implement and maintain
- Flexibility to adapt to new formats or services
