Extended Solutions
Complementary strategies
to tackle piracy
Forward Content & Brand Protection services are integrated into a suite of anti-piracy solutions, providing rights holder with access to multi-disciplinary strategies to protect their rights:
Ethical
Hacking
We adopt pirates’ mindsets and techniques to audit your infrastructures (CDN, OTT streaming platforms, STBs…), identifying vulnerabilities to help you better protect your content from piracy.
Our team also conducts research and reverse engineering on illicit services and devices to understand how they operate and how to disrupt them.
This work is carried out by Lexfo, our team of 80 offensive cybersecurity engineers with over 10 years of experience in combating piracy.
Lexfo is a highly trusted player, holding two accreditations from the French National Agency for the Security of Information Systems (ANSSI).
In-Depth
Investigation
_ Collecting evidence of infringements
_ Identifying and locating the operators involved
_ Understanding their roles and organizational structures
_ Tracing their assets and conducting background checks
Our investigations leverage both online and offline techniques, managed by over 65 experts in CYBINT, OSINT, SOCINT, GEOINT, CHAININT, FININT, and HUMINT.
Advocacy
We leverage Forward’s Strategic Communication capabilities to drive long-term impact on the piracy landscape. Our approach encompasses:
Research: Raising consumer and stakeholder awareness on piracy by producing insightful content (articles, studies, white papers, infographics, press releases) and leveraging it in communication campaigns.
Public Affairs: Reinforcing copyright protection through lobbying efforts aimed at implementing more effective public policies, standards, and regulations, particularly in Brussels, Washington DC, and Paris.
Industry Collaboration & Events: Supporting the industry in building public-private partnerships, sharing best practices, and coordinating joint efforts by structuring and leading industry panels, associations, and alliances, such as Creativity Works!, the Trust & Safety Forum, or OSINT Day.