ANNUAL REPORT

Americas

Claro Colombia bolstered its media offering through aggregation

Claro Colombia, part of the America Movil group, is the largest mobile telecommunications provider in Colombia. Eager to improve both subscriber satisfaction and time to marke, the company was also looking to become more cost-efficient. Adopting Nagravision's OpenTV Video Platform solution, they unified the management of their content, packages and accounts to deliver a fully aggregated solution, including the option of direct billing for Netflix through a new and compelling user experience.

Europe

Vodafone rolled out Vodafone TV globally and securely

Vodafone, one of the largest operators in the world, selected Nagravision to support the launch and global rollout of their new Vodafone TV service. Looking to deploy a cloud-based solution, they wanted to centrally manage all their security needs – including those that extend beyond traditional content protection. Using Nagravision's Active Streaming Protection framework, several content and service protection technologies holistically work together to provide a robust and integrated security approach.

Asia / Pacific

GTPL secured OTT services to over 11 million homes in India

As the largest multiple-system operator in India, GTPL wanted to expand their content offering by launching a new OTT app on multiple device types. Providing an optimized user experience for new and existing subscribers, GTPL sought a vendor who could provide the highest level of security. Nagravision was the perfect choice for GTPL, with our Active Streaming Protection framework, that is designed to protect against streaming piracy.

Asia / Pacific

In Vietnam, VTVCab used a direct-to-TV approach

VTVCab, one of Vietnam's largest pay-TV providers, sought to extend its services to a new addressable market: consumers purchasing a new smartTV. Enabling consumers to become subscribers of VTVCab through an intuitive service activation in just a few clicks of the remote control, TVkey Cloud, a joint innovation with Samsung, delivers VTVCab's HD service securely and without the need for a set-top box.

City of Linköping, Sweden

A real-life example of a Smart City approach

Together with SKIDATA, the municipality of Linköping is taking steps that include fully digital parking navigation, automatic ticketless parking access and city-wide integration of EV-charging in 14 parking facilities. Accessible via mobile phone, all parking is available on the same platform, also allowing users to connect to additional mobility functionalities. The digitalization of such services increases convenience and saves time for end users, but also improves traffic flow on streets, reduces work for operators, eliminates paper waste and reduces CO2 emissions.

Royal Ascot Racecourse, United Kingdom

Bringing safety and convenience to a prestigious event

SKIDATA provided the Royal Ascot Racecourse with a new people access solution, including a special intelligent accreditation system, for convenient access and secure accreditation control to the world’s most popular horse racing venue. Accurate personal identification and proper accreditation of employees, security staff, catering services, VIP and journalists for controlled access to assigned sections helps to maintain the high level of safety that is essential at a venue of worldwide renown. Visitors benefit from a quick, secure and convenient admission to the venue.

Leeds United FC, United Kingdom

Kicking off a new era of welcoming supporters

The English Premier League club has rolled out SKIDATA’s digital-only NFC ticketing for the 2022/23 season, allowing the operators of the Elland Road stadium to save time and money. The fans of Leeds United Football Club will be able to gain entry to home matches at Elland Road stadium by scanning a digital NFC season pass or match ticket stored on their smartphone or smart watch at stadium turnstiles without rummaging for a paper ticket. Supporters can shop and pay with their smartphone and load NFC tickets directly into the Apple and Google wallets.

Ski Amadé, Austria

The simplest way to purchase ski-passes

The largest pool of ski resorts in Austria has been a SKIDATA customer from the beginning. The pool now offers an e-commerce solution as the most rapid and simple way for guests to purchase their ski passes: one-stop shopping anytime, anywhere. Operators achieve earlier revenue recognition and provide convenient collection of pre-purchased tickets at an on-site vending machine, saving staff resources and labor costs along the way. In case of restrictions related to Covid-19, the verification of the vaccination certificate is directly linked to the ski pass on the keycard.

New differentiation for Managed Detection and Response

Kudelski Security continued to release new capabilities to expand the total addressable market and improve the effectiveness of the service. Launched in May 2022, MDR One includes proprietary technology combined with an attractive service agreement that allows a broader segment of clients to leverage advanced MDR services for cyber-protections. Using MDR One allows the Cyber Fusion Center to natively ingest any data feeds, eliminating the need for costly SIEM technology to aggregate log files.

Expanding Microsoft relationship

Seeking to keep up appealing to enterprise organizations using Microsoft business and security technology, Kudelski Security continued to expand integration and product support for security tools. Microsoft has the unique classification of being both the largest business technology company as well as the largest security technology company, with more than USD 5 billion in annual security investment. Throughout 2022, we expanded our investment in Microsoft technologies, integrating core security tools into the foundation of the CFC technology stack.

Talent-driven geographic expansion

Kudelski Security has continued to leverage a purposeful approach to geographic expansion, responsibly growing teams and personnel in line with client acquisitions across Europe, including Switzerland, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. New to the European expansion in 2022 was the launch of a Cyber Fusion Center in Madrid, Spain. Madrid was selected for its geographic location in Europe and its high number of qualified cybersecurity professionals.

Staying warm through the crypto winter

In 2022, as the crypto winter descended on the world, Kudelski Security’s expertise continued to be in demand. However, the market dynamics changed from engaging with highly leveraged start-ups to more mature industries looking to use blockchain and distributed ledger technology for real world business applications. Engagement was expanded with Web3 businesses such as StarAtlas as blockchain-based gaming and the metaverse continued to grow in popularity. The result is a still growing business segment for our high-value services.

RecovR and beyond

Based on RecovR’s Kudelski-designed locator hardware and flexible backend systems and applications, the solution is being expanded to additional use cases for fleet management, construction vehicles and other applications where knowing the location and condition of valuable goods is important to companies and government organizations.

Expanding Labs business

The Kudelski IoT Security Labs experienced another year of record growth in 2022, helping its customers evaluate the threats to their connected devices and businesses, as well as analyzing the security of IoT devices for business-impacting gaps before they are launched to market. The labs continued to provide services across many different industries, but experienced substantial growth in the semiconductor, defense and blockchain sectors.

Securing IoT for chip manufacturers

Kudelski IoT expanded its relationship with the semicon- ductor industry in 2022, launching and successfully selling a portfolio of new solutions. Driven by demand from their customers for more secure solutions, Kudelski IoT is providing them with technology tools and services to help them create more chips, enable simpler provisioning of devices in the field, and offering the ability to securely update those devices over the air.

KeySTREAM powers new services

Driven by the need to create, provision and manage unique identities for IoT devices, Kudelski IoT began offering a number of new services based on its powerful keySTREAM security system in 2022. These services enable chipset and device manufacturers to establish and validate secure identities for new devices joining communication networks, ensure the integrity and privacy of their data, and keep them updated over time.