Canal+ Group has given a vote of confidence to the Nagravision conditional access system. The Swiss security company has confirmed that the French pay-TV operator is replacing the smart cards for over three million subscribers to the Canal+ Le Bouquet and CanalSat packages.
“We are proactively securing our system by upgrading to Nagravision’s latest security solution,” said Jo Guegan, Deputy Chief Technical and Information Officer, Canal+ Group. “Even though the current security level fully satisfies us, we want to implement all updates and new releases our partner is proposing to us.”
Canal is upgrading to the latest version of the Nagravision conditional access that was originally implemented six years ago, a point not lost on Pierre Roy, EVP of the Kudelski Group and COO Nagravision. “The current conditional access system at Canal+ is still intact. Deploying these new releases will however proactively reinforce the system security going forward.”
Earlier this year Germany pay-TV platform Premiere chose to adopt the VideoGuard conditional access system in tandem with the existing Nagravision system.
