Synamedia’s new OTT ServiceGuard product didn’t get the plaudits it perhaps deserved when it launched a fortnight ago, with the claim of being the first content protection technology that extends to the CDN itself. Even if the technology doesn’t fulfill its potential in terms of customers, the very sentiment of its creation in the first place is a damning one for the digital security sector. Faultline has since learned that the significance of this breakthrough into the delivery chain came about following intensive research carried out by Synamedia’s highly active and top secret in-house intelligence division. Based on insights into how modern day content pirates operate and how their methodologies have shifted to circumvent even the most advanced OTT protection…