Planning for Webcasting Success

Security Considerations
Since multimedia assets are no different than other intellectual property, enterprises need to ensure that once they have the ability to create multimedia assets, they can easily protect each asset from unauthorized viewing or distribution.

However, since the characteristics of streaming assets are significantly different from those of static documents or images, organizations should consider specialized solutions. It’s one thing to protect assets from unauthorized access via login but quite another to ensure that links are protected via secured login and tokens and obfuscated so that if a link is passed along to an unauthorized viewer, it will not be playable or downloadable. Nor will it reveal any confidential information attached to the link or presentation.

Additionally, the organization must set policy-based rules that determine which employees will be trainers and establish a sensible hierarchy of groups, subgroups, and permissions that determine exactly who has access to which training modules and for what period of time.

Conclusion
A rich media webcast deployment can substantially lower an organization’s communications and training costs—from reducing monthly or event-based outsourcing costs to improving the usable life of time- and resource-intensive training and educational programs. This same technology also offers exceptional productivity benefits, enabling business leaders and subject matter experts to rapidly share consistent information across the globe, thereby transferring time-critical knowledge for competitive advantage.

However, since every enterprise network, application, and security environment is unique, success requires choosing experienced, consultative partners and solutions that have been proven in these highly complex environments.