Towards Zero Trust in Broadcast Production at VidTrans22

Presented by John Robert Naylor - Ross Video

With Zero Trust Network Architectures (ZTA) rapidly gaining currency as best practice across many industry verticals, it's interesting to consider applying Zero Trust Tenets to the broadcast production use case.

Our industry uses many (clear text) control protocols that require rigorous frame-accuracy. And it uses equipment typically on 7-year capital schedules that was not designed with ZTA as a requirement. Both of which present significant technical challenges to adopting it.

This paper reports out on a proof of concept developed by Ross Video to experiment with ZTA with the objective of detailing these challenges and their potential workarounds.

The Proof of Concept used OIDC for authentication and OAuth2 for access control together with TLS network transports to provide secure communications. It includes research into the impact of these on the performance characteristics of legacy equipment including increased control protocol latencies. It also covers ease-of-use and workflow considerations for fast paced production operations. These findings will be presented as a live demo together with some of the emergent questions that deserve further investigation.