A Multi-dimensional Solution: NorthStar Revenue Security

EZDRM broadens the range and sophistication of technologies that support the business of our customers and prospects. EZDRM NorthStar Revenue Security brings together the threads of traditional security with the recently announced C2PA video provenance offerings in a multi-dimensional solution for live and on-demand services. NorthStar is Featured in the shortlist of the 2025 CSI awards for Best Content or Service Protection.The EZDRM Revenue Security approach has a focus on augmenting and expanding every video service provider’s revenue streams, reflecting the strong business-centric thrust of every content and service protection product offering. 

NorthStar demonstrates EZDRM’s innovative use of provenance tracking for real-time detection and response to illegitimate streams of video leeched from the CDN of a video service operator. Taking full advantage of C2PA (Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity) and CMCD (Common Media Client Data) building blocks, EZDRM has dramatically expanded the use cases to address key issues related to content monetization. The NorthStar approach creates a verified “breadcrumb trail” for the actual pattern of content distribution inside and outside a licensed region, allowing service operators and content providers to not only identify but also address rogue CDN hacking attempts as they happen.

NorthStar is built on the foundations of EZDRM's traditional DRMaaS offerings, but takes full advantage of the recently announced Precision Envelope Encryption service and the specialist video C2PA offerings for Video Provenance Signatures and the cloud-centric Provenance Signature Vault.

NorthStar extends the provenance workflow routinely applied to a live content stream by additionally enabling C2PA signed metadata at the service CDN origin (or origins) and at each of the CDN edge nodes through which the stream flows. At each consumer device, standard CMCD instrumentation relays these signatures back to NorthStar. This extended use of CMCD and C2PA gives a full map of the real-time content distribution across CDNs, and inside and outside of a licensed service geography. With a real-time delivery map available, it’s a simple step to identify rogue viewing sessions and shut them down. 

We would love to discuss how NorthStar expands your options for revene Security. Set up a time to meet us at IBC 2025.