Every secure operation requires a key for encrypting and decrypting content. To block illegal access to your content, you must protect these keys.

Key generation
Automatically generates keys in hardware without any human intervention, for optimal security. The keys are used by industrial-strength, highly secure algorithms including AES and triple DES to encrypt and decrypt.

Key transport
Hardware-based security modules help make sure keys are never accessible in-the-clear. Secure network communications ensures keys won’t be compromised during transport. Devices can be programmed to call into the back-end management system on a pre-determined schedule for updated key information.

Recipient authentication and validation
Content owners can set very precise rules around who/what device can access each key, and under what conditions. Nothing is transported until the recipient is authenticated and validated for that specific use.

Auditing & logging
This adds another critical layer of security by providing a feedback loop that enables you to determine whether there has been any tampering. During each validated communication, the device sends all log records to the key management system. Using a secure central repository and state-of-the-art data mining technology, we make it possible to analyze trends and identify usage anomalies that may indicate if a device was compromised or used improperly.

Cinea's key management technology is incorporated into our Digital Cinema and S-VIEW solutions.