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Maritime, Fleets, ports and shore-side IT Media & Entertainment, Pre-release content and production Casino & Gaming, Platform integrity and player trust Financial Services, DORA, resilience and fraud Critical National Infrastructure, Converged IT and OT estates Manufacturing, Plants, PLCs and supply chain Healthcare, Clinical systems and patient data Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences, Research IP, GxP and data integrity Energy & Utilities, Generation, grid and SCADA Government, Sovereign data and assurance

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Protect the content before anyone has seen it

A single pre-release leak can cost a release window, a licensing deal and a reputation that took decades to build. The hard part is that content has to move: between studio, post house, VFX vendor, localisation partner, marketing agency and reviewer. HexaShield secures the asset in motion, not just the vault it started in.

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Dozens
of vendors touch a single title
Every hand-off is a custody boundary, and most are governed by contract alone.
Where we are brought in

Three problems we are asked to solve for content owners

A single title passes through dozens of vendors in a dozen countries before it reaches an audience. Certification tells you a facility was assessed. It does not tell you where the asset went after it left. These are the three situations content and security leaders bring to us most often.

01

The asset leaves the building and the trail stops

CUSTODY
The problem

Pre-release material moves between VFX, post, localisation, QC, dubbing and marketing, each with its own transfer tooling, its own subcontractors and its own idea of what secure means. You can evidence which facilities were assessed. You cannot evidence where a specific asset actually went.

How HexaShield solves it

Content Custody, delivered on HexaCustody: a media-grade CMS holding the assets, a lightweight Custody Agent that tags them in metadata and gates transfer without touching quality, and a 24/7 managed SOC watching for anomalies and egress. Additive to TPN, not a replacement for it.

Content CustodyHexaCustody
The business outcome

Every asset tagged, every transfer logged, across every vendor and contributor. Custody becomes something you can demonstrate to a studio, a distributor or an insurer continuously, rather than at the point an assessment happens to fall due.

02

Material appears early and attribution takes weeks

INTEL
The problem

A screener, a marketing cut or a build surfaces before its release date. The commercial damage lands immediately; the investigation runs for weeks and usually ends inconclusive, because the only records available were never designed to answer the question.

How HexaShield solves it

Asset attribution in HexaCustody combined with dark-web monitoring in HexaInt, which fuses OSINT, dark-web and third-party sources and scores what it finds against your actual estate. The SOC works the case; custody records supply the chain.

Content Custody, Cyber IntelligenceHexaCustodyHexaInt
The business outcome

Leaked material traces back towards its source vendor or contributor in minutes rather than never. You have a defensible answer for the studio, the insurer and the distributor, and the conversation moves from blame to which control to close.

03

Freelance churn outruns your vendor assurance

TPRM
The problem

Short contracts, personal devices and whichever cloud transfer tool was fastest that afternoon. Vendor onboarding paperwork describes a workflow that stopped being accurate the week after it was signed, and production will not slow down to wait for it.

How HexaShield solves it

The Custody Agent gates transfers at the point work actually happens, while HexaComply carries third-party risk management: vendor questionnaires, supply-chain visibility and evidence that assembles itself as the production runs.

Third-Party RiskHexaComplyHexaCustody
The business outcome

Vendor accountability that survives an audit and a production schedule at the same time. Contributors keep working at the speed the schedule demands, and the security answer stops depending on whether anyone remembered to update the spreadsheet.

What sits behind it

The problems, and what answers each

Each situation, the capability that answers it and the platform it is delivered on
#The situationCapabilityDelivered on
01The asset leaves the building and the trail stopsContent CustodyHexaCustody
02Material appears early and attribution takes weeksContent Custody, Cyber IntelligenceHexaCustody, HexaInt
03Freelance churn outruns your vendor assuranceThird-Party RiskHexaComply, HexaCustody

The language your buyers, studios and insurers already speak

TPN member and vendor assessments · MPA content security best practices · studio-specific content handling schedules · distributor and insurer due diligence. Our position on TPN is deliberate: it is the shared language of this industry and we are additive to it. Certification assesses the facility; custody follows the asset.

We map the ones that apply to your jurisdiction, flag, licence or trade during onboarding rather than assuming them here. Compliance frameworks and regulatory requirements change over time; the specific frameworks in scope, and their current requirements, are confirmed and verified with your counsel during onboarding.

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Threat landscape

What actually goes wrong in Media & Entertainment

Pre-release leaks from the vendor chain

The weakest control in a production supply chain sets the security of the whole title, and that control is usually at a small vendor under deadline pressure.

Shadow file sharing

When the approved transfer route is slow, people use consumer services. The asset arrives; the audit trail does not.

Insider access without accountability

Broad, long-lived access to shared storage means that after a leak, the list of people who could have taken it is everybody.

Credential theft at partners

Infostealer infections on freelancer and contractor machines hand over review-platform and storage credentials directly.

Ransomware against production

Editorial, render and archive infrastructure are high-value targets precisely because a delayed delivery is so expensive.

Assessment fatigue

Every studio partner runs its own security review, and each is answered separately from the last.

One connected picture

Every hand-off in the content chain, in one place

A title passes through production, post, VFX, localisation, marketing and review before anyone outside sees it. Each hand-off is a custody boundary, and most are governed by a contract rather than a control. HexaCore watches all of them as one chain.

Production & set Camera cards, dailies, on-set transfer
Post & finishing Edit, colour, sound, conform
VFX & external vendors Shots out, plates back
Storage & MAM Archive, asset management, cloud
Localisation & distribution Subtitling, dubbing, screeners
Studio IT & identity Mail, SSO, endpoints, finance
HexaCore Resilience core Correlate · enrich · decide
A custody trail per asset Every hand-off recorded in HexaCustody
TPN-ready evidence Controls mapped, not re-gathered
Leak detection that starts early HexaInt watches for the asset in the wild

The point is not to stop content moving. It is to know, at any moment, who holds what, under which agreement, and whether a copy has turned up somewhere it should not be.

Obligations

The regulatory picture

The frameworks and regimes that shape security programmes in this sector. HexaComply maps one control set across all of them.

TPN (Trusted Partner Network)

The industry programme for assessing content-security controls at production and post-production vendors.

MPA Content Security Best Practices

The underlying control expectations most studio security schedules are written against.

DPP Committed to Security

Widely used in UK and European broadcast supply chains.

ISO/IEC 27001

Frequently required in commercial terms alongside content-specific programmes.

GDPR / UK GDPR

Applies to talent, crew and audience data held alongside content.

The approach

How HexaShield covers it

  1. 1Custody that survives the hand-off

    HexaCustody tracks assets as they move between organisations, with a lightweight per-machine agent providing both tracking and transfer acceleration.

  2. 2Make the secure path the fast path

    The same agent makes large transfers dramatically quicker, which is what stops people routing around the sanctioned workflow.

  3. 3Anomalous access becomes a security event

    Custody events land in HexaCore, so unusual access to a sensitive title is investigated by HexaSOC rather than noticed after the fact.

  4. 4Watch the vendor chain from outside

    HexaInt monitors partner exposure, leaked credentials and dark-web mentions of your titles and infrastructure.

  5. 5Answer assessments once

    HexaComply maps one control set to TPN, MPA, DPP and studio-specific schedules, so a new partner review is a mapping exercise rather than a fresh project.

The platform

Modules that do the work

HexaCustody

Digital content custody

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HexaInt

Cyber & dark-web intelligence

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HexaSOC

AI agentic SOC & MDR

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HexaComply

Compliance & TPRM

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HexaStrike

Agentic offensive security

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One accountable partner

Integrated capabilities and proprietary platforms under one operating model, so there is no gap between the team that detects something and the team that answers for it.

No rip-and-replace

We sit above the stack you already run and take telemetry from any source. Nothing here depends on you replacing tooling you have already bought and trained people on.

Transparency by default

Whatever you buy feeds HexaView, the same truth our analysts see, at the depth each audience needs, exported on demand for leadership, auditors and insurers.

FAQ

Questions, answered

What is TPN and do we need it?
The Trusted Partner Network is the industry's shared programme for assessing content-security controls at production and post-production vendors. Whether you need it is usually decided commercially rather than legally: major studios increasingly require TPN assessment before a vendor may hold pre-release content, so in practice it gates work.
How do you stop content leaking from a third-party vendor?
By making custody a property of the asset rather than of the vendor's environment. HexaCustody tracks the asset as it crosses organisational boundaries, so access and movement are recorded independently of whose network it is sitting on, and unusual patterns become a security event rather than a post-leak reconstruction.
Our teams use consumer file sharing because our tools are slow. Does this help?
Directly. HexaCustody's transfer acceleration means the tracked, sanctioned route is also the fastest one available. Shadow file sharing is almost always a workaround for friction, so removing the friction removes most of the behaviour.
Can we keep our existing storage?
Yes. HexaCustody works on top of Azure Blob Storage, Amazon S3 or HexaShield-managed storage, adding custody, management and acceleration wherever your content already lives.
Other sectors

We work across resilience-critical industries

MaritimeVessel OT, port systems and shore-side IT, under IMO MSC.428(98), IACS UR E26/E27 and USCG expectations. Casino & GamingPlayer account defence, property OT and evidence for PCI DSS and gaming licence conditions. Financial ServicesDORA and NIS2 evidence, ICT third-party risk and resilience testing that runs continuously. Critical National InfrastructureConverged IT and OT visibility, sovereign deployment, and evidence mapped to the NCSC CAF and NIS2. ManufacturingPlant visibility without downtime, plus IEC 62443, CMMC 2.0 and TISAX evidence for your customers. HealthcareMedical device and clinical system visibility that never interrupts care, evidenced for HIPAA and the DSPT.

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Tell us what you are protecting and where you feel exposed. We will map it to the right capabilities and set up a walkthrough.

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