How to Protect Your Content When Using a CDN?

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When you launch your online business and implement monetization strategies, it is very important to protect your assets from viral distribution. SpaceCDN allows content providers to specify content protection rules enforced by content delivery network (CDN).

With SpaceCDN CDN solutions, end visitors can access the media through the workflow specified by publisher. Website data protection allows developers to set limits on content access on the CDN network with the help of different methods. Initially, default permissions on CDN content are taken from the parent folder, e.g. if you apply protection policy to root content folders, it will be automatically applied to all files in the subfolders. Multiple security rules will apply to folder’s contents at the same time to ensure additional protection.

The most common way of content protection is URL signing. CDN account owner may use this service to publish content with a query string parameter token that features URL expiration timestamp. The token is generated by user’s origin server and can be used for making unique publishing URLs for every end user request. With URL signing free distribution of content outside the workflow is prevented the following way:

  1. If a visitor tampers with the URL, the request for the content in CDN system will be denied.
  2. If formatted URL has timestamp expired, end users’ requests for CDN content will be denied.

Other popular content protection policies may include Basic Authentication, URL Signature Parameter and Expiration Parameter. Time to live (TTL) helps to renew files stored in cache by purging them. Geographic restriction prohibits access for visitors from some certain regions specified by the user.

If you want to learn more about SpaceCDN content protection policies, contact our support team. We can discuss your content production needs and provide you with a free CDN trial.

Vadim Kolchev

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Vadim has graduated from Moscow Institute of Entrepreneurship and Law as finance and credit specialist. Prior to starting to work in hosting business directly, he occupied various roles in several companies, including but not limited to banking sphere and sports. As of 2015 he works for INXY Holding, with SpaceCDN being a vital part of the hosting branch of its business. Being tech enthusiast, he has started writing articles about dedicated servers, CDN, storage solutions and other hosting services long ago, and since then accumulated a lot of experience and knowledge in the field. Building hosting sales and support departments from scratch has added even more experience and knowledge and allowed to see the business from the inside and build required expertise. Now Vadim is CPO and COO of a successful hosting business. Having several important interviews and publications at platforms such as Hosting Journalist and Forbes, he continues to share knowledge about this branch of technology that has become not only his job but also a passion.

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