MPA Upgrades Trusted Partner Network To Boost Security In Studio Supply Chains
06.02.2023 - 17:29
/ deadline.com
The Motion Picture Association is upgrading a platform and services that assess content security safeguards of producers and their suppliers.
The Trusted Partner Network, in which members’ content security is measured against a set of best practices, will now include software and cloud security assessments, adding to those of physical locations and home workplaces. The intent of the Trusted Partner Network, being relaunched as the TPN+ platform, is to have a set of standards for vendors as a way to prevent instances like the pre-release leaks of footage from major blockbusters.
The new platform is designed to help members manage and communicate their content security status, including with non-TPN security certificates such as ISO and Soc2, along with conforming to a set of updated MPA best practices. The Trusted Partner Network includes smaller firms and large pre- and post-production companies, as well as content owners.
The MPA launched the Alliance for Creativity in Entertainment, a global network of companies to combat piracy, in 2017. The Trusted Partner Network was started the following year. The MPA has long had the set of content security best practices, but under the Trusted Partner Network, a vendor’s safeguards are scrutinized and studied by third party assessors. It’s up to content owners to make their own decisions on which vendors and suppliers to use based on the risk assessment.
Karyn Temple, senior executive vice president and global general counsel at the MPA, said, “We like to talk about the fact that Trusted Partner Network, plus ACE, is us protecting content from script to screen, having that 360 degree content protection, content security pipeline to ensure that the legal marketplace for film,