DStv Now Integrated the System Integrity Check and App Security Check Functions, Helping Ensure Video Smoothness

Overview

DStv Now is a popular entertainment app owned by Multichoice in Africa. It enables users to watch their favorite video content online or through offline caching. Because the app's developer is committed to providing secure and reliable digital video content to users, they integrated two HUAWEI Safety Detect functions: system integrity check (SysIntegrity) and app security check (AppsCheck). This helped DStv Now ensure video smoothness.

Challenge

Ensuring the security of an app's running environment is critical to both providing a risk-free user experience and protecting video content. Malicious apps on user devices pose security threats to user accounts and personal information. Knowing this, DStv Now's developer decided that integrating security check capabilities was vital to evaluating the security of devices' environments.

DStv Now's Technical Director said: "We continuously optimize our app to adapt to different devices. However, we still need to ensure that our app runs on certified devices, to comply with the requirements of some content providers, and offers users a smooth streaming experience."

Solution

The technical director also stated, "Safety Detect helps us check whether a device is certified and ensure that the device has not been tampered with." Safety Detect is a multi-dimensional open security detection service offered by Huawei. It provides functions, such as SysIntegrity and AppsCheck, to help apps quickly build security capabilities, protecting user privacy and security. DStv Now calls SysIntegrity and AppsCheck whenever a user registers an account, watches a video online, or caches a video in the app.

SysIntegrity, which is based on a Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and digital certificate signature, helps DStv Now check whether the device running the app is secure, for example, whether the device has been rooted. AppsCheck helps DStv Now obtain a list of malicious apps on devices on which it has been installed. If risks are detected during this process, DStv Now can determine whether to restrict the app's functionality, or provide a warning to the user. "Using Safety Detect has helped us improve app security and ensure that users only use our app on certified devices", said the Technical Director of DStv Now. "This helps us root out piracy and ensure that streaming and video playback are done on devices certified by our content providers." The director went on to say, "It also helps us deliver a smooth user experience as we can develop our features based on certified devices, without worrying that our app is catering to tampered devices."

HUAWEI Safety Detect meets DStv Now's security check requirements and enables the app to provide more secure and reliable video content. The technical director said, "After integrating the SysIntegrity and AppsCheck functions, the video smoothness is assured."

Results

Video smoothness is assured, and user accounts and video playback are more secure.