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Secure your Media

Whether your Media is for internal or external consumption, there are many different reasons for you to ensure that it can only be viewed by the right people and in a manner of your choosing.

Viostream offers a range of asset security measures that enable organisations of any size to gate their content, so that you can distribute your Media without worrying about unauthorized access.

Asset security use cases​

Internal and controlled access Media​

The use of internal video for training and other purposes is growing at a rate of knots. Viostream offers a range of different methods for you to ensure that your internal material can only be viewed by authorized staff. These methods can also be used to provide controlled access to Media - for example if you are producing educational videos that you want your customers to access, but not unauthenticated viewers on the internet.

Creating an invite-only Channel​

An invite-only Channel will enable you to ensure your videos can only be viewed by users who you invite. Refer to our Audience Controls documentation for information on setting this up.

Securing Media embedded on your intranet or LMS​

A common method for sharing Media with staff is to embed it on a corporate intranet website such as Sharepoint or Confluence, or your learning management system (LMS) such as Bridge or Moodle. Securing video on your intranet or LMS is a simple 2 step process:

  1. Create a Restriction Profile Follow our simple guide to create a Restriction Profile. Add your intranet or LMS's domain name to the domain restrictions.

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    If you would like all future uploaded Media to be secured within your intranet, edit the Default Media Audience Settings on the Audience Settings page.

  2. Apply the Restriction Profile to your Media For every Media Asset you want to secure behind a your intranet or LMS, follow our quick guide to apply the Restriction Profile you just created.

Securing Media behind a corporate gateway​

For organisations that operate a corporate network, an Restriction Profile can be used to ensure that videos can only be accessed from behind your corporate gateway(s). Staff will either need to be physically connected to your corporate network, or remotely connected via a VPN in order to access Media Assets that are protected in this way. Setting this up is a simple 2 step process:

  1. Create a Restriction Profile Follow our simple guide to create a Restriction Profile. Add your corporate gateway's IP address(es) or range(s) to the Restriction Profile.

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    If you would like all future uploaded Media to be secured behind your corporate gateway, edit the Default Media Audience Settings on the Audience Settings page.

  2. Apply the Restriction Profile to your Media For every Media Asset you want to secure behind a your corporate gateway, follow our quick guide to apply the Restriction Profile you just created.

Public Media​

There are many cases where you want your content to be publicly accessible - for example, marketing videos for your website. It is important to ensure that you are in control of where your content is being embedded, so that you can control the messaging, branding and tracking of your video.

Locking your Media to your websites​

If you have created some great video content for your website, you want to make sure that it can't be played back elsewhere. Viostream enables you to lock your Media down to websites under your control, in 2 simple steps:

  1. Create a Restriction Profile Follow our simple guide to create a Restriction Profile. Add your websites to the domain restrictions.

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    If you would like all future uploaded Media to be secured within your intranet, edit the Default Media Audience Settings on the Audience Settings page.

  2. Apply the Restriction Profile to your Media For every Media Asset you want to be locked to your websites, follow our quick guide to apply the Restriction Profile you just created.

Controlling geographical access to Media​

For various legal reasons, it may be important to ensure that viewers from different geographical regions cannot access your Media. For example, you might have trademark or copyright rights in certain jurisdictions but not in others. Viostream enables you to control the countries from which viewers can access your video, in 2 simple steps:

  1. Create a Restriction Profile Follow our simple guide to create a Restriction Profile. Add the countries that are allowed access to your Media to the geographical restrictions.

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    If you would like all future uploaded Media to be secured geo-restricted, edit the Default Media Audience Settings on the Audience Settings page.

  2. Apply the Restriction Profile to your Media For every Media Asset you want to be geographically restricted, follow our quick guide to apply the Restriction Profile you just created.

Apply a restriction profile​

In order to apply a restriction profile to a video, simply take the following steps:

  1. Locate your video on the  Library page.
  2. Click the [/managing-your-account/setting-up-restriction-profiles#viewing-the-audience-settings-of-a-video](Audience Settings) button.
  3. Choose between Public, Restricted, or Private. For both Public and Restricted videos, you can also set a password.
  4. Click Save Changes to apply the new settings.