Wowza Media Systems™, the market leader in reliable, secure and low-latency streaming solutions that enable video delivery across the globe, today announced support for DRM technology in Wowza Streaming Cloud through integration with the EZDRM DRM as a Service (DRMaaS) solution. Broadcasters in enterprise, education and entertainment are now able to maintain unmatched control over their cloud-based streaming workflows.

The news release that we published this week has a fairly neutral title, but we think that our support for WisePlay DRM on Huawei's huge mobile phone and tablet footprint could have big implications for the video streaming marketplace.

EZDRM, the original DRM-as-a-Service provider for security in video streaming, offers a variety of content protection solutions to meet developer and service provider needs. As a Platform Partner in Huawei’s Developer Ecosystem, the EZDRM Universal DRM has now been enhanced to incorporate Huawei’s WisePlay DRM, and is available for developers to address content protection requirements for all major playback systems.

We wanted to draw your attention to a stellar example of partner engagement - this comes from our friends at NexPlayer - who have developed a fully worked example of the use of EZDRM in conjunction with their player SDK.

In a week that saw a ground breaking announcement from WarnerMedia on breaking the legacy movie release windowing system, a panel of end-to-end security and piracy experts debated the current state of the landscape at this year's Content Protection Summit (CPS).

In this final highlight in our short series on the basics of video security , we tackle the core issue of Encryption. Please remember that we have wrapped up all our current FAQ information up in our published book on DRMaaS - download today and register your T-shirt size!