- Number
- 20230108849
- Published
- 2023-04-06
- Filed
- 2021-10-01
- Assignee
- Disney Enterprises, Inc.
- Inventors
- Bever; Rebecca et al.
- CPC
- H04L63/0227; H04L63/10; G06F21/10; G06F21/16; G06N20/00; H04L63/0245; H04L63/0428; H04L63/1408; H04L63/16
- Verdict
- Set aside network transport security, plumbing
- Source
- Google Patents · FreePatentsOnline
Abstract
A content transport security system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing software code and a database including one or more business rule(s). The processing hardware executes the software code to intercept a content file including a content asset, during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device, determine an authorization status of the destination device, and decrypt the content file, using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device. The processing hardware further executes the software code to search the content asset for a forensic identifier, assign a classification to the file transfer, based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious, and allow or block the file transfer to the destination device, based on the classification and the business rule(s).
Background
BACKGROUND
Due to its popularity as a content medium, ever more digital content is being produced and made available to users. As a result, the efficiency with which such digital content can be managed and secured has become increasingly important to the producers, owners, and distributors of that content. One significant content management challenge in digital content production is tracking the location of a digital asset as it moves through a workflow pipeline having multiple collaborators, some of which may be internal resources of the digital content producer (e.g., a studio), and some of which may be resources or services provided to the digital content producer by external vendors.
Identifying the location of a digital asset can typically occur once a source of and destination for the digital asset are identified. However, in the case of digital content producers interfacing with many vendors for production and post distribution work, tracking the transfers of a digital asset among the digital content producer and vendors, as well as the transport pathways used for those transfers remains challenging. Although there are existing solutions in the networking and cyber-security fields that attempt to track digital assets, those solutions typically require localized applications in each environment in which the digital asset is processed or resides.
Claims
1. A content transport security system comprising: a computing platform including a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code and a database including at least one business rule: the processing hardware configured to execute the software code to: intercept a content file including a content asset, during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device; determine an authorization status of the destination device; decrypt the content file, using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device; search the content asset for a forensic identifier; assign a classification to the file transfer, based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious; and allow or block the file transfer to the destination device, based on the classification and the at least one business rule. ||
8. A method for use by a content transport security system including a computing platform having a processing hardware and a system memory storing a software code and a database including at least one business rule, the method comprising: intercepting a content file including a content asset, by the software code executed by the processing hardware during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device; determining, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, an authorization status of the destination device; decrypting the content file, by the software code executed by the processing hardware and using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device; searching, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, the content asset for a forensic identifier; assigning, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, a classification to the file transfer based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious; and allowing or blocking the file transfer to the destination device, by the software code executed by the processing hardware, based on the classification and the at least one business rule. ||
18. A computer-readable non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon instructions, which when executed by a processing hardware of a content transport security system, instantiate a method comprising: intercepting a content file including a content asset, during a file transfer of the content file between a client device and a destination device; determining an authorization status of the destination device; decrypting the content file using a decryption key corresponding to an encryption key available to the client device; searching the content asset for a forensic identifier; assigning a classification to the file transfer based on the authorization status and a result of the searching, the classification being one of allowable, forbidden, or suspicious; and allowing or blocking the file transfer to the destination device, based on the classification and at least one business rule.