As media and entertainment moves into a new generation of content production and distribution, the industry is faced with mounting uncertainty on how it manages risk and threat mitigation.
Core to the evolution of the business is the communication maintained across all the disparate, and international, colleagues, subcontractors and service providers who hold the front-line in the industry’s defense.
At the annual CDSA Summit @ Los Angeles full-day event at Google’s Spruce Goose Hangar in Playa Vista on Dec. 9, Virginia Lyons, SVP and CISO for Sony Pictures Entertainment, will look at what media and entertainment can do as an industry to foster and facilitate increased communication across productions, vendors and the enterprise, in the keynote fireside chat of the day “Renewing Our Collaboration on Incident Response.”
Earlier in the day attendees are in for a pair of presentations that serve as build-ups for the keynotes on the program.
First there’s “Business Leader Perspectives on the Values and Risks of AI,” featuring Scott Ehrlich, chief innovation officer for Sinclair Media, Allan McLennan, CEO of PADEM Media Group, and Richard Atkinson, president and chairman emeritus of CDSA. While promising profound efficiencies and capabilities to the business, AI also comes with legal, cultural, social, security, and other risks that are far more prevalent with forms of AI than with other, more traditional technology solutions. This session addresses the most critical elements about the transition, including the positive aspects of AI, impact of and on risks, and the general leadership elements needed to ensure the industry’s (and humanity’s) success with this emerging technology.
Next, there’s “Account Takeover: Modernizing the Battlefield” with Rajan Kapoor, field CISO for Material Security.
Account Takeovers (ATOs) have surged by 66 percent since 2021 (Microsoft 2024 Digital Defense Report), driven by more sophisticated and frequent attacks. Why? Cloud productivity suites like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 are unique and valuable targets that have corporate data and identity access. These accounts can also be used by attackers to launch further attacks. Yet, many businesses face this escalating threat with outdated tools, leaving critical gaps in visibility and post-breach protection. It’s clear that safeguarding against ATOs and data loss demands a fresh approach.
This session will explore how modern security solutions can find and mitigate the current risks in your cloud environments that could lead to ATO, detect and stop ATO attacks as they are happening, and protect sensitive data at rest — even in the event of a breach.
The Content Delivery & Security Association’s (CDSA) CDSA Summit @ Los Angeles will be designed to engage as much as enlighten, gathering CDSA Board and member companies along with their colleagues and collaborators to engage in vigorous conversation about the state of content protection and artificial intelligence in the media and entertainment industry.
This year’s theme, “Where Content Protection and AI converge,” will incorporate the 10-plus years CDSA has produced the annual Content Protection Summit (CPS) event in December into the CDSA Summit agenda.
For more information about the CDSA Summit Los Angeles click here . For sponsorship and speaker inquiries, or to inquire about your complimentary CDSA member code, email secretariat@CDSAonline.org.
CDSA Summit @ Los Angeles is presented by Indee, with sponsorship by Google Cloud, ConvergentDS, GeoComply, Material Security, EIDR, and the Tech Align Group.
