Broadpeak launches CDN security and anti-piracy solution

Broadpeak has launched an anti-piracy solution to help content providers combat revenue loss and piracy during high-scale streaming events. To be showcased for the first time in full at IBC2025 (12-15 September), the security offering reinforces Broadpeak’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) with anti-piracy capabilities purpose-built for video.  

Source: Broadpeak. Broadpeak's CDN security and anti-piracy solution extends across nodes and systems to higher-level security services.

Alongside subscription revenue loss, content providers are pressured to reduce the extra costs of bandwidth for video delivery which is used for piracy. Broadpeak’s anti-piracy solution enables streaming companies to counter billions of dollars of revenue leakage with multilayered protection – combining token validation, scalable distributed denial of service (DDoS) protection, and anti-token-sharing with system-level intelligence to protect a high number of streams during peak live events. 

Natively designed to deliver high-audience streaming events, Broadpeak’s solution scales seamlessly during traffic peaks – addressing mission-critical use cases in live sports and entertainment. The solution offers protection at both the system and video levels, blocking threats like credential sharing, scraping, unauthorised access, and token abuse before they impact operations. This is in contrast to general-purpose CDN services that often lack visibility into suspicious behaviours unique to video streaming, or in-house systems that only act locally and miss a global system view.

“Piracy is taking so much money out of our industry, the attacks are only growing, yet far too many video service providers aren’t doing enough to address it,” said Jacques Le Mancq, CEO at Broadpeak. 

“Implementing proper anti-piracy measures costs far less than the revenue losses caused by inaction. We’re uniquely placed to deliver streaming-specific security solutions that protect high-value content, at high scale, in real-time. Our complete solution fixes revenue loss with features that were exclusively designed for streaming.”

Broadpeak’s anti-piracy solution is available as an additional service within its CDN – whether deployed on-prem or via Broadpeak’s CDN-as-a-service (CDNaaS) offering – and can be flexibly delivered as a managed service, fully-supported 24x7 by its global team of video specialists. The system integrates seamlessly within customers’ wider security feature set, ranging from web protection and digital rights management to security information and event management (SIEM) systems. 

Customers can easily expand their anti-piracy toolset by harnessing Broadpeak’s content protection solutions alongside those of several leading partners – including a joint solution in partnership with NAGRAVISION, detecting, identifying, and disrupting pirate streams in real-time to combat sports piracy.