Quantum Risk for Digital Media: The DRM, Archive, and Authentication Decisions That Sector Leadership Has Not Yet Made
Digital media organisations hold long-duration archives, operate DRM systems that use asymmetric cryptography for licence key management, and distribute content through CDN infrastructure that has its own PQC migration timeline. The combination creates a harvest-now-decrypt-later exposure that is not well-modelled in standard media security frameworks. This conversation is for the content security and technology leaders who need to close that gap before the regulatory environment forces the issue.
Event Details
- Who else is in the room
- Senior level executive peers, industry leaders, experts in risk, technology and business. Specifically: CTOs, CISOs, and content security leaders at digital media organisations, streaming platforms, broadcasters, and major digital publishers.
- Access
- Members only. Bundled with Expert Membership. Included with Expert Member tier
- Sponsor
- Organised by QSECDEF
- Facilitator
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Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard Quantum Security Defence - Rules of engagement
- Chatham House Rule Chatham House Rule. Discussion is on the record; attribution is not. Participants may share what was said but not who said it.
- Format
- Roundtable Flexible between roundtable, structured Q&A or in-person hosted dinner
- Who Should Join
- This conversation is for technology and content security leaders at digital media organisations (streaming platforms, broadcast networks, studio technology teams, and major digital publishers) where archive security, DRM integrity, and content authentication are strategic concerns. It is most relevant where the organisation holds content with long commercial or archival value. It is not for media sales, rights, or commercial teams without a content security mandate.
About This Conversation
Why this matters now
The EU's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act have tightened obligations around content integrity and platform security. DRM systems using RSA or ECC for licence key management are candidates for harvest-now-decrypt-later attacks on content with long commercial value: studio libraries, sports rights archives, news archives with long embargo periods. As of May 2026, the major DRM systems have not published PQC migration roadmaps. The CDN layer adds another migration dependency: content distributed over TLS-protected channels that are not yet PQC-capable is in transit exposure for harvest-now-decrypt-later. NIST's August 2024 standards publication made the standards dependency clear. The media sector has not moved as fast as financial services or defence.
Outcomes
What you will leave with
- A clear model of where quantum risk sits in a digital media operation: archive integrity, DRM key management, content distribution, and authentication chains
- Peer experience from media technology leaders who have begun cryptographic reviews of their DRM and archive infrastructure: what they found and what they did about it
- Clarity on the CDN dimension: where the major CDN providers are in PQC migration, what that means for TLS-layer protection, and what leverage content owners have in their CDN contracts
- A shared view of the regulatory trajectory: which content security and platform regulations are moving toward explicit cryptographic requirements, and on what timeline
- The board-level framing for a media organisation: how to make quantum risk legible to a leadership team that understands content piracy but has not yet connected it to cryptographic obsolescence
Your Facilitator
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard
Founder, QSECDEF
Anna Beata Kalisz Hedegaard has over 15 years of international experience in deep-tech, telecommunications, and defence communications networks. Her expertise spans intellectual property, advanced communications systems, and quantum secure communications. She has lived and worked across Poland, Denmark, the United States, Malaysia, the Netherlands, and Germany. Anna holds dual Master of Science degrees in Theoretical Cosmology from the University of Southern Denmark and Electrical Engineering from Wright State University, USA. She is the founder and board member of Quantum Security Defence.
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