Earlier this year I had the pleasure of visiting the USA with members of the EBU Technical Committee, dropping in on a number of different companies whose services impact in some way on broadcast media. It was an eye-opening experience! One of the things that struck me was the extent to which the tech industry has embraced the cloud, upon which entire business empires are now being built. While the cloud holds plenty of promise for broadcasters - virtualizing operations such as encoding and transcoding, and soon editing and playout, can deliver real efficiencies - there remain very significant concerns, not least around security. Indeed, as our sector moves away from dedicated hardware that evolved on a technology island and into the connected world of IT, IP and the cloud, we are stepping into a cybersecurity minefield. As BBC's Peter Brightwell said at our recent EBU Media Cybersecurity Seminar, "IP offers flexibility, but also open doors to hack".
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