GeoGuard partners with Akamai to boost anti-piracy solutions

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GeoGuard's premium VPN/Proxy Detection now fully integrated with Akamai to offer enhanced anti-piracy tools for online streaming services.

GeoGuard today announces the launch of its new partnership with Akamai to offer GeoGuard's market-leading VPN/DNS Proxy detection solution directly into the Akamai Intelligent Platform™. Fully Hollywood Studio approved, this provides frictionless capabilities to online broadcasters to tap into GeoGuard's award-winning solution to remain compliant with studio and sports rightsholders' content protection obligations.

With one in four web users regularly using VPNs, with the predominant purpose of bypassing content geo-filtering restrictions, this service will provide a simple and effective method for Akamai clients to just "turn on" the GeoGuard solution to benefit from an enhanced level of content security from geolocation fraud and geo-piracy, caused by the widespread use of VPNs and DNS Proxy services to fake location.

"Geolocation fraud and geo-piracy via VPNs and DNS Proxies undermines the territorial business model that our streaming broadcasters and OTT clients rely on for revenue," says Campbell Foster, Vice President of Product Marketing of Akamai. "By integrating GeoGuard directly with the Akamai Intelligent Platform, we are giving our customers a simple way to implement a comprehensive geo-piracy solution without the usual associated complexity and technical overhead. In addition to streaming broadcasters and OTT providers, we see this as an important technology for other markets where geolocation fraud is a concern, such as the financial services industry."

"With Akamai providing the backbone and security for most of the television and film content delivered over IP globally, it made perfect sense to integrate our proven VPN and DNS Proxy detection technology right at the CDN level," says David Briggs, CEO of GeoGuard. "This integrated solution enables Akamai's clients to quickly and easily benefit from the highest level of geolocation-based security for their content."