A First Look at Digital Rights Management Systems for Secure Mobile Content Delivery

All members of the department are welcome: undergraduates, postgraduates, postdocs, teaching staff, technical staff - anyone who would like to attend and learn a little bit about what our speakers do in their research career. Members from other disciplines within the School, and the wider University community, are also welcome to attend.

All PhD students in Chemistry are expected to attend as part of their PhD training.

A First Look at Digital Rights Management Systems for Secure Mobile Content Delivery
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Join Amir Rafi as he delves into the intricate world of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems on mobile platforms, offering a comprehensive security assessment of major DRM technologies in the era of cloud-based content delivery.

Digital Rights Management, or DRM, plays an instrumental role in safeguarding copyrighted content from unauthorized access and distribution. With the surge in mobile device usage for media consumption, ensuring secure content delivery on these platforms has become paramount. In this enlightening seminar, Amir Rafi provides an in-depth exploration of the modern DRM systems equipped on billions of mobile devices globally.

Dive deep into the intricacies of widely adopted DRM solutions, namely Google Widevine, Apple FairPlay, and Microsoft PlayReady. Rafi's analysis will cover their underlying architectures, salient features, and potential vulnerabilities. Special attention will be paid to the modern paradigms of cloud-based content delivery, with insights on major platforms like Netflix, Disney+, and Amazon Prime.

Furthermore, Rafi will spotlight emerging threats and vulnerabilities that challenge the robustness of these DRM systems. Drawing from his extensive research, he will touch upon the micro-architectural side-channel vulnerabilities and the looming concerns about post-quantum security.

Concluding the seminar, attendees will be introduced to proposed mitigation strategies that can be employed to fortify these systems. The session will also pave the way for discussions on future research directions in the realm of secure content delivery.

Speaker
Amir Rafi
Hosted by
Cybersecurity & Privacy, Department of Computer Science, University of Aberdeen
Venue
MS Teams (Online)