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LOS ANGELES — The Content Delivery & Security Association, CDSA, which conducts over 100 security audits for media & entertainment companies worldwide, has released the industry’s first Recommended Best Practices for Productions and Post Production / Editorial, which has been developed in cooperation with leading Hollywood studios and their production partners.

This Recommended Best Practices document addresses, for the first time, security requirements for an area of the entertainment supply chain that has long been ignored and overlooked – the set. This new security process document covers everything from the Production Office, Camera Media Security, Physical Security, IT Security, Incident Response, Editing Rooms, Script Handling, and more. It also offer recommendations for Non-Disclosure Agreements, Social Media Awareness training, On-Set Visitation Policy, Personal/Mobile Device Policies, and much more.

“The transition to digital has created new security concerns for a production environment where the footage is recorded onto any number of removable memory formats and hard drives, reviewed, color corrected, transcoded for dailies, backed-up, and even distributed right on-set or near-set,” says Bryan Ellenburg, security consultant for production and post production editorial for CDSA.

“Even more concerning, these digital productions shooting on location are often housed in temporary offices and warehouses. Because the productions are only there for a few weeks at a time, it has been too costly to invest in the security infrastructure (CCTV cameras, Access Control Systems), so, by-and-large, security has been an after thought.”

CDSA has developed these “Recommended Best Practices for Productions and Post Production / Editorial “ as an industry service and they are available at no charge to any interested party to assess risk and to implement these best practices as they see fit. If needed, CDSA offers its independent auditing services to Production & Post organizations at any of its three offices around the world.

“This new process is designed to encompass all stakeholders in the feature post production process, and the objective is to promote a responsible on-set security culture on commencement of a project and to introduce a structured approach to determining security requirements for any film or television production,” Peter Wallace, Worldwide Director of Anti-Piracy, CDSA, adds.

To receive a copy of the “Recommended Best Practices for Productions and Post Production / Editorial“ contact Bryan Ellenburg at [email protected]

For more information about CDSA and its worldwide security certification programs and services visit: www.mesaonline.org or contact Worldwide Director of Anti Piracy Peter Wallace at [email protected].