David H. Ramirez 
IPTV Security 
Protecting High-Value Digital Contents

Television was one of the inventions that shaped the way society
and culture evolved over the second half of the twentieth century.
It had the powerful effect of shrinking the world which creating a
unified view of how things were. There continues to be an evolution
of television and a migration towards a fully interactive and
ubiquitous IPTV.

IPTV Security describes the science and history behind TV
as well as detailed descriptions of all the architectural
components that comprise an IPTV environment. It covers subjects
logically from the Head End passing through the aggregation network
and concluding with the Home End environment. The countermeasures
required to ensure the safe operation of the IPTV environment are
also examined, including Digital Rights Management technologies,
network level security and application level security. IPTV
Security defines the security model for an IPTV environment,
ensuring that all critical elements are covered and a layered
approach to security is implemented.

* One of the only books available on IPTV Security

* Provides a comprehensive view of IPTV components along with the
associated threats and required countermeasures

* Detailed descriptions allow readers to understand the
technology even if new to the field

* A complete reference guide to the security aspects of
IPTV.

This book is ideal for anyone responsible for IPTV security such
as security officers and auditors working with internet services
and telecommunications providers, phone and cable companies,
content owners and security consultants and architects. It will
also be of interest to networking and security engineers, software
developers, network operators and university lectures and students
involved in media, IT and security.

Table of Content

Preface.

About the Author.

1. Introduction to IPTV

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 General Threats to IPTV Deployments.

2. Principles Supporting IPTV.

2.1 History of video and television.

2.2 Viewing Experience of Video.

2.3 Video compression.

2.4 TCP/IP Principles.

2.5 Summary.

3. IPTV Architecture.

3.1 High-level Architecture.

3.2 Functional architecture for the IPTV service.

3.3 Detailed IPTV architecture.

3.4 Summary.

4.Intellectual Property (IP).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Supporting technology.

4.3 General mechanisms for content protection.

4.4 Operation of DRM on IPTV.

4.5 Watermarking and Fingerprinting.

4.6 WWW? (What went wrong).

4.7 Authentication.

4.8 Summary.

5.Existing Threats to IPTV implementations.

5.1 Introduction to IPTV Threats.

5.2 IPTV Service provider – Head End.

5.3 IPTV Network provider – transport and aggregation
network.

5.4 IPTV Subscriber – Home End.

5.5 Conclusion.

6. Countering the Threats.

6.1 Securing the basis.

6.2 Head End (IPTV Service Provider).

6.3Aggregation and Transport Network.

6.4 Home End.

6.5 Secure IPTV a reality.

Appendix 1. Converged Video Security.

A1.1 Introduction.

A1.2 Threats to IPTV Deployments.

A1.3 Protecting Intellectual Property.

A1.4 VOD and Broadcast.

A1.5 Smart Cards and DRM.

A1.6 Countering the Threats.

A1.6.1 Threat References.

A1.6.2 Threat Models.

Appendix 2. Federated Identity in IPTV Environments.

A2.1 Introduction.

A2.2 IPTV Federated Identity Solutions.

A2.3 Applicability to an IPTV Security Environment.

A2.4 Video on Demand.

Appendix 3. Barbarians at the Gate.

A3.1 Barbarians at the Gate.

A3.2 How to Break an IPTV Environment.

A3.3 Network Under Siege.

A3.4 Countermeasures.

A3.5 Conclusion.

Index.

About the author

David Ramirez, Alcatel-Lucent, UK. David is Senior Manager of Alcatel-Lucent’s Security Consulting practice where his responsibilities include Innovation & Technology, Thought Leadership and Knowledge Sharing. He has contributed to several magazines, newspapers and web sites on topics such as Ethical Hacking, Web Security, Security Incidents, Forensics, Digital Certificates, etc. David is the author of a white paper on IPTV Threats for Lucent, interviews and articles for the IEC, Lucent, Webtorials, magazines in Europe and the US. He is also speaker at several European and Easter European conferences on security and telecommunications, where he presented the topic of IPTV Security, security for converged networks and networking security.