Harmonix Partners with Irdeto Group’s Cloakware to Secure Industry Leading Video Games

Cloakware’s Proven Security Technology Protects High-Fidelity Music Files

VIENNA, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Irdeto, a leading expert in content and business model protection solutions and services, today announced that it has partnered with video game development technology provider Harmonix for its Cloakware product. Under the terms of the partnership, Irdeto will lend its Cloakware security expertise to Harmonix, effectively protecting the company’s widely popular video games that feature premium music content.

“With Irdeto’s groundbreaking cross-platform Cloakware technology, we are now fully prepared to offer a complete suite of security solutions across all video game platforms - including the Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 - that help make quick, widespread deployment a reality.”

“In retrospect, the two big takeaways we have from our work with Irdeto’s Cloakware team have to do with the quality of the technology and the strength of the partnership,” said Eran Egozy, CTO of Harmonix. “It was evident from the start the Cloakware team had the acumen that comes with years of experience to develop sophisticated technology that could meet our unique needs for protecting assets. We were confident Irdeto cared about making our relationship work, that they had a vested interest in our company and that they would ultimately make our project as secure as it could be. We knew going into things that we were specifying a really aggressive, tight timeline, but we were able to hit all of our marks along the way thanks to the Cloakware team’s help.”

“We see vast opportunity in working with an industry leader of Harmonix’ stature to provide consumers with wider access to valuable and fun content through our trusted security solutions, and we look forward to expanding our partnerships across the board to utilize the vast array of Cloakware solutions,” stated Said Rahmani Khezri, senior vice president, Cloakware. “With Irdeto’s groundbreaking cross-platform Cloakware technology, we are now fully prepared to offer a complete suite of security solutions across all video game platforms - including the Wii, Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 - that help make quick, widespread deployment a reality.”

The Irdeto and Cloakware brands are synonymous with trust and protection, providing innovative, proven solutions that assist customers in enterprise, media, broadcast, broadband, mobile, gaming and government applications. With over one billion deployed applications today on PCs, set-top boxes, mobile phones and media players, Irdeto’s Cloakware product is the security cornerstone of many of the world’s largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies.

About Harmonix Music Systems, Inc.

Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., based in Cambridge, MA, and established in 1995, is the leading developer of ground-breaking music-oriented videogames. Harmonix was founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy, who formed the company to invent new ways for non-musicians to experience the unique joy that comes from making music and have pioneered music and rhythm gaming in the US. For more information please visit: www.harmonixmusic.com.

About Irdeto

Irdeto empowers companies to protect and monetize their digital assets and maximize return on content with innovative and reliable software technologies, content management and distribution solutions and end-to-end solutions and services. The company’s products include conditional access, digital rights management, business support systems and set-top box software solutions. More than 500 customers worldwide trust Irdeto to secure and enable the delivery of their valuable content across digital broadcast, IP, mobile, enterprise and government networks. Irdeto solutions currently enable simple to advanced business models on more than one billion devices and applications.

Through Irdeto’s product Cloakware, the company provides trusted security software and services to top-tier companies to protect their core digital assets that create revenue-generating business models. By keeping their core digital assets “cloaked” throughout creation, distribution and consumption, companies can protect their existing business models and create new sources of revenue. Cloakware protects billions of digital assets across servers, desktops and embedded devices that are deployed worldwide using our proven software security and services. Cloakware is the security cornerstone of many of the world's largest, most recognizable and technologically advanced companies.

Founded in 1969, Irdeto employs over 900 people in 25 offices across the globe, including the dual corporate headquarters in Amsterdam and Beijing. The company is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers (JSE: NPN), which includes a wide range of pay TV, Internet, instant-messaging, technology and publishing businesses. For more information, please visit www.irdeto.com.