IPTV Security Assessment

IPTV technology is an emerging technology that enables IP-based digital TV, video-on-demand, and other technologies. IPTV is made possible by the advent of broadband and voice services using very high bit-rate DSL (VDSL). IPTV services are expected to be deployed to over 10 million households in the next few years.

IPTV is also subject to spamming, spoofing, content theft, and other hacking attacks, like many other IP-based solutions. GNS performs IPTV Security Assessments for many telecommunications companies to ensure that their IPTV are secured according to industry best practices.

We assess IPTV in these five major phases:

Architecture and Design Assessment

Evaluate the infrastructure and security practices in the architecture and design

External Penetration Testing

Evaluate the security of internet-facing hosts

Host Configuration Assessments

Assessment of the configurations of routers, switches, and servers against industry best practices

IPTV Services Security Assessment

Evaluate the security of the IPTV service from a customer’s perspective and determine if the IPTV service could allow potential service fraud, denial-of-service or other attacks

Policy and Procedure Gap Analysis

Evaluate the gap of the current policies and procedures against known best practices according to the ISO17799 security standard