Live Stream Intrusion Detection

Who is the Live Stream Intrusion Detection service for?

The service can be useful for television channels and other clients that broadcast their live streams over the internet.

Why is this needed?

You must have heard about incidents where intruders hijacked television broadcasts.
The first known cases date back to the 1970s, but they still occur nowdays.
These attacks can be motivated by vandalism, political reasons, or other motives.

For a long time, the ability to detect such problems were limited.
Intruders could use the hijacked broadcast for relatively long time — in some cases, up to several hours — for their own purposes.
The consequences of such hijackings are extremely negative: financial and reputational losses for the channel, viewer dissatisfaction, and increased social tension.

Now, based on our experience in online broadcasting and modern technology, we have developed a system that speeds up and automates the detection of broadcast intrusions.

We are ready to offer you a solution that automatically detects broadcast hijacking in less than a minute.

How does it work?

The system uses frame decoders and detectors to compare paired video streams.

It operates continuously, comparing pairs of video streams every second. One stream is the source, and the other is its retransmission, which could potentially be hijacked.
When mismatched frames are detected between the source and retransmission streams, the system uses self-correction to exclude the influence of skipped frames or frames with artifacts.
If self-correction fails, it is considered a hijacking incident, and a notification about the event is sent to your account dashboard or email.

Capabilities of our system:

• Detection of any frame manipulation type — frame replacement, semi-transparent overlay, text overlay, and other stream frame manipulations.
• The number of supported channels — unlimited.
• Supported broadcast formats — UDP (Multicast), HLS, and others.
• Supported video codecs — H.264, MPEG-2, and others.
• Detector management via API — add, edit, or remove detectors, and request event summaries.
• Frame capture for each stream during hijacking — visualize which frames triggered the system alert.

Why choose our system?

Using our live stream intrusion detection system allows you to:

• Protect your live streams — any intrusion will be detected quickly and efficiently, bringning you complete confidence.
• Optimize infrastructure costs — you won’t need to build or deploy your own channel monitoring system, you only need to configure access to your channels from our side.
• In addition, we offer a flexible payment model — you pay only for the number of y channel pairs processed. We also provide a 1-month trial period.

Where are the servers located?

Our servers are located in Moscow data centers: M9 and DataLine.

They are connected to Medialogistika.

How to connect the live stream intrusion detection system?

To connect the stream intrusion detection system, please contact us. Please be ready to specify the following parameters:

• A description of your online broadcasting system that requires stream monitoring
• The number of channels to be monitored
• Other requests

After that, we will configure the system according to your specifications, and you will be able to use it.

Pricing

After reviewing your request and the number of channels to be processed, we will be able to offer you favorable terms of cooperation. We will provide a free trial period required for setup, integration, and testing.

Email us sales@cdnnow.pro with the subject line "Live Stream Intrusion Detection" and tell us about your project. We will be happy to help with protection of your live streams!