DPP opens Committed to Security programme
October 16, 2017
The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) has extended its Committed to Security Programme to the whole media industry – including companies which are not Members of the DPP. The Programme was announced at IBC 2017 after the DPP had piloted its new Production and Broadcast Security Checklists with a selected number of Member companies, and has now been made available to all suppliers.
“DPP Members wanted a means of demonstrating that they are following security best practice, so we worked with them to develop a Programme that does just that,” says DPP Managing Director Mark Harrison. “We’re now opening that Programme more widely – and I hope the proliferation of the DPP security mark will become evidence of just how seriously our industry now takes security.”
Companies can apply to take part in the DPP Committed to Security Programme via the DPP website. On successful completion of one, or both, of the Security Checklists, they will be awarded the appropriate DPP mark.
The licence to hold and publicise the DPP Committed to Security mark is renewable on an annual basis. DPP Members can join the programme free of charge, as a Member benefit; non- Members can join at a licence fee of £1500 p.a. for each checklist.
Ten companies worked with the DPP in the development phase of the Programme and became early adopters of the mark. Those companies were Arqiva, Base Media Cloud, Dropbox, The Farm Group, Imagen, Marshall Info Tech, Microsoft, Qvest Media, Telestream, and TVT. A further 15 companies have already expressed an interest in joining the Programme, ahead of the full launch.