SafeNet Launches SafeBSF for Mobile TV Protection

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Information security provider SafeNet, Inc. recently announced the addition of SafeBSF, a carrier-grade Generic Bootstraping Architecture (GBA) solution for mobile user authentication to its portfolio of Mobile TV Protection and DRM solutions.

According to a company release the SafeBSF solution is a complete bundle of GBA components, including a BSF, HSS/HLR Proxy, and a Zn proxy.

SafeBSF provides mobile operators and service providers with a general-purpose authentication infrastructure which can be used for multiple services such as mobile TV and mobile payments.

By using this, mobile operators and service providers can be confident that only authenticated users with access rights to their mobile services are able to access the content, it said.

SafeBSF can plug directly into an existing HLR (or provide a stand-alone HSS), thereby allowing mobile network operators to leverage their existing authentication infrastructure. This significantly reduces development cost and time to market.

"With the addition of SafeBSF, SafeNet offers customers the industry's only complete, end-to-end Mobile TV Protection Solution which address rights management and authentication challenges while reducing development costs and shortening time to market," said Rana Gupta, business head, India and SAARC, SafeNet India.