Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, today announced that DIRECTV in Latin America selected the company’s services to provide protection against streaming piracy for its sports channels. The deployment has included the broadcast of the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018™ and will include the Premier League and LaLiga Santander.

Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, today announced that it has been selected by the World Boxing Super Series to provide security against streaming piracy for the upcoming Cruiserweight final, which will take place in Moscow on July 21 2018.

Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, today announced that it has appointed Simon Williamson as Chief Commercial Officer to drive global business growth.

Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, today announced that its ASiD subscriber watermarking has completed rigorous robustness tests that were performed by Cartesian, the independent security consultancy

Viaccess-Orca (VO), a global leader providing TV service platforms, content protection systems, and advanced data solutions, announced that yes, Israel’s leading pay-TV provider, has launched a new subscription VOD service with content personalization provided by Viaccess-Orca. By embedding Viaccess-Orca’s COMPASS content discovery platform within the UI of its new services, yes is able to provide subscribers with tailored content recommendations that increase satisfaction and brand loyalty.

Content and revenue protection specialist Friend MTSannounced today that it has been chosen by United Media, proprietor of the most popular cable channels in Southeast Europe, to provide advanced antipiracy solutions. United Media is part of United Group, the leading telecommunications and media platform in Southeast Europe operating in all six countries of former Yugoslavia.

Friend MTS, the content and revenue protection specialist, has announced that it will be honoured with an Emmy® Award for Technology and Engineering by The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (NATAS).

NexGuard, a Kudelski company and the leading provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, today announced that its solutions have been deployed by Kaleidescape Inc., the leading manufacturer of home-theater movie players and servers.

GeoGuard, the geo-piracy prevention experts, and Friend MTS, the leading provider of platform protection technologies, today announce that Friend MTS is licensing and integrating the GeoGuard Shield studio-approved and third-party tested geo-piracy prevention toolkit with the Friend MTS ASiD system.

EditShare, a technology leader in intelligent shared storage and media management solutions, will give IBC2017 attendees a sneak peek at the new shared storage auditing capabilities due out in the next major release of its EditShare XStream EFS platform (stand 7.C27). The new capability provides comprehensive auditing and reporting of all file system activity, including file creation, deletion, modification, opens and reads as well as general media space access. The new auditing feature will be available in all XStream EFS scale-out storage models including the recently released single-node XStream EFS 200 and EFS 300 models as well as the brand new XStream EFS 40 NL parking storage and flagship XStream EFS 450 enterprise solution.

NexGuard, a Kudelski company and the leading provider of forensic watermarking technology and solutions, announced the launch of its File Delivery solution at NAB Show 2017. Visitors to the NexGuard booth (#SU3424) will be able to see live demonstrations of the product, which is primarily designed to protect the transport of content to distributors and operators just before release, when it is at its most vulnerable and valuable.

Irdeto, the world leader in Multiscreen, Media Protection and Revenue Assurance solutions, today announced a new partnership with Envivio, a leading provider of software-based video processing and delivery solutions, that will better enable operators to streamline live channels over-the-top (OTT) across multi-screen platforms and devices.