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Overview<\/b><\/h2>\n

When an organization suffers a data breach or other anomalous incident, how does the news reach the world? We all know that the media and entertainment industry plays the key role here. But what happens if the media organization itself is affected? It\u2019s time to understand cyber security concerns and challenges in this industry as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The IT Security Paradigm<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Media & Entertainment industry nurtures a preconceived notion that this industry bears less risk of cyber threats. This lackadaisical attitude gives ample scope for cyber criminals to explore the vulnerabilities and breach data. A couple of years back, the \u2018fame\u2019 and \u2018popularity\u2019 of a global producer of movies and web series turned \u2018ill-famed\u2019 after their streaming service went live without the knowledge of the organization. The hackers actually compromised the site\u2019s users by stealing their user credentials, changed all their passwords and logged off from all the devices to take control of the activities and huge amounts of data.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Just before the pandemic hit the globe, this incident turned out to be an eye-opener for the global cyber security community. However, after multiple levels of scrutiny, the truth got revealed that entertainment companies have their own set of security challenges that were \u2018ignored\u2019. The hackers group found it luring and took the best advantage out of it by launching data breaches, creating data cloning, compromising user accounts, using impersonations and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The IT Risks<\/b><\/h2>\n

The entertainment industry has come a long way from electronic modes to digital modes where production houses migrate their broadcasting services towards online content and streaming services. As a result, the risk of hacking, data theft and potential damage of reputation increases daily. Here are some predominant IT security threats that can damage the organization beyond recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n

Insider Threats:<\/b> Insiders with easy and regular access to the \u2018not-yet-released\u2019 content bear the risk of leaking information to file-sharing servers. Most of the time, media companies lack any seamless user monitoring mechanism that increases the risks. When \u2018<\/span><\/span>trusted\u2019 insiders <\/span><\/a><\/span>remain involved in the malicious act, it invariably takes long to detect the malpractice or rather the source of it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cyber Sabotage<\/b>: <\/span>Group of hacktivists or organized cyber criminal groups attack media organizations to steal data, malign reputation and manipulate information of terrorism, religious fundamentalism, political idealism or simply spread baseless rumours. Organizations face real pain to deal with the consequences of such incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n

Inadequate Public Scrutiny<\/b>: Hundreds of public emails are inboxed in organizations\u2019 official email everyday. It could be service feedback, service requests, complaints and more. In case of running contests, organizations check responses in the emails to decide the winners. Phishing threats loom large here. A potentially harmful email in disguise of an appreciation email could be disastrous if opened and clicked.<\/span><\/p>\n

State-sponsored Threats<\/b>: In order to stop spreading of controversial entertaining content, government-authorized ethical hacktivists compromise every access point. On several occasions, the media organizations face legal consequences as well in this regard and face financial and reputational setbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Non-Compliance<\/b>: The rules and regulations of global compliance standards are applicable to every industry including media and entertainment. Hence, in case of any data breach incident, the organization could surely be charged with non-compliance penalties. It raises financial stress and has adverse effects on the business future.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Security Measures<\/b><\/h2>\n

Cyber security in the entertainment industry is crucial because a vast number of users are habituated today with online services. Hence, a robust IT security is the only key to stay above from the predominant cyber threats.<\/span><\/p>\n