Cybersecurity Awareness
Tips to Keep You and Your Company Safe
Practical, low-cost habits every employee can adopt to reduce the everyday risks that lead to breaches, phishing, and credential theft.
Sep 12, 2025 · 6 min readRead more →
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Media & Entertainment Security
Ensuring Content Security in Media & Entertainment
Content security in M&E isn't just about firewalls — it's a layered discipline that spans people, process, facility, and pipeline. Here's how to think about it.
Aug 28, 2025 · 8 min readRead more →
Data I/O & Content Transfer
Maximising Security Efficiency: The Importance of Content Transfer Systems
Email attachments, consumer file-sharing, and ad-hoc FTP setups quietly carry most of the risk in modern post-production. Purpose-built transfer systems change the equation.
Aug 14, 2025 · 7 min readRead more →
MPA Best Practices
Implementing MPA Best Practices for Content Security in Media & Entertainment
MPA's Content Security Best Practices are the de-facto baseline for any vendor handling studio content. A practical guide to where to start and what to prioritise.
Jul 30, 2025 · 10 min readRead more →
VFX Security
Optimizing VFX Production Tracking Tools
ShotGrid, Ftrack, and Flow are critical to VFX delivery — and routinely under-secured. A look at hardening, access design, and audit-readiness.
Jul 16, 2025 · 7 min readRead more →
Physical Security
Best Physical Security Measures for VFX Studios
Cameras and badge readers are table stakes. What separates a secure VFX facility is zoning, choke points, and disciplined I/O room controls.
Jul 2, 2025 · 6 min readRead more →
Data I/O & Content Transfer
Data I/O Workflows & Systems
The I/O room is where content enters and leaves your facility. Treat it as the highest-risk surface in the building and design accordingly.
Jun 18, 2025 · 8 min readRead more →
Content Security
Secure Content Handling & Hard Drive Chain of Custody
Hard drives still move between facilities every day. Chain-of-custody discipline — labelling, logging, sealing — turns a high-risk handoff into a defensible one.
Jun 4, 2025 · 7 min readRead more →
MPA Best Practices
MPA Best Practice Spotlight: Access Control — Your First Line of Defense
Access control is the most-cited and most-failed control set in MPA assessments. A focused look at what assessors expect — and where teams fall short.
May 21, 2025 · 6 min readRead more →
Network Security
How One Open Port Can Expose Your Entire Network
A single forgotten port — RDP, SMB, a forgotten admin panel — is how most ransomware groups land their first foothold. Here's why, and how to find yours.
May 7, 2025 · 5 min readRead more →
TPN & Compliance
TPN Readiness: What We're Seeing in Vendor Assessments
Short field note from the last quarter of TPN assessments — the three controls vendors keep underestimating, and the one finding that almost always reopens after remediation.
Apr 23, 2025 · 3 min readRead more →
Cloud Security
Cloud Hardening: Five Quick Wins Before Your Next Audit
Most cloud findings in M&E audits are not exotic — they're MFA gaps, public buckets, and stale IAM. Five hardening moves you can ship this week.
Mar 19, 2025 · 3 min readRead more →