Built around the schedule
A drama block, a live sport feed, or a nightly news rundown cannot stop for a noisy scan. We work around gallery bookings, overnight edits, and transmission windows.
Offensive security for production
Penetration testing for local studios, TV companies, and broadcast.
Web application, network, cloud, and AI assessments tailored towards UK and European lots, galleries, and playout — scoped around transmission, turnaround, and the security expectations of local commissioners and streamers.
The practice
West London roots. European production in mind.
Content and continuity
An unreleased episode, a compromised MCR, or a vendor jump-box into post is a production incident. Engagements protect pictures, playlists, and the confidence of commissioners.
Evidence local buyers accept
Reports are written for studio security, broadcast engineering, and compliance. Findings map to ISO 27001, GDPR, and content-security questionnaires used across UK and European production.
Senior testers only
No offshore factories, no scan-and-PDF mills. You speak to the people who test the systems — before lock, after TX, and when a rider changes.
Capabilities
Four disciplines. One production-ready programme.
Web application
Commissioning portals, media asset systems, vendor booking tools, rights databases, and audience platforms. Manual testing against OWASP and production business logic.
- Authenticated production and partner apps
- API and multi-tenant isolation
- SSO, entitlements, and screening rooms
Network
Studio lots, TV centres, post houses, and remote galleries. External perimeter, internal assumed-breach, wireless, and segmentation between production, corporate, and broadcast networks.
- External and internal infrastructure
- Vendor VPN and jump-host review
- Edit, grade, and storage network exposure
Cloud
AWS, Azure, and GCP used for dailies, remote edit, VFX, and distribution across European territories. Identity, storage, and transfer paths that must not leak unfinished work.
- Cloud configuration and IAM review
- Object storage and media pipeline tests
- CI/CD and file-transfer assessments
AI
Generative tools now sit in development, VFX, and post. We test model endpoints, prompt-injection surfaces, training-data exposure, and the wrappers around production AI platforms.
- LLM application and API tests
- Data-leakage and isolation checks
- Abuse of studio-facing assistants
Local studios & TV
Assessments that stand up to a European production review.
UK lots, independent studios, and continental production companies are asked to prove that systems have been independently tested — by streamers, public-service broadcasters, and co-production partners. We design the output for those questionnaires and security schedules.
- ISO 27001 and GDPR-aligned reporting
- Content-security questionnaires for UK and EU buyers
- Support for TPN / MPA-style evidence where a US partner requires it
- Retest windows before principal photography or delivery
- Careful handling of unreleased titles and NDAs
Broadcast
Galleries, playout, and the path to air.
Broadcast environments add live risk. We test the systems around MCR, continuity, contribution links, and OTT origin without treating them as generic enterprise IT. Work is planned so engineering and transmission teams keep control of the clock.
News & current affairs
Live sport
Playout & MCR
Contribution & satellite
OTT & catch-up
Regional broadcasters
Enquire
Tell us the production, the systems, and the air date.
Enquiries: pentest@ealinglabs.com · London & across Europe