Security

We secure live video and audio communications from the moment of connection.  Highly sophisticated authentication technology ensures that people who connect to any conference are who they say they are, and only connect with the tools they are authorized to connect with.  The BYS Video client authenticates itself against the communication server prior to establishing connection, and the location of the BYS Video client is also verified - permitting access from authorized sources only.  Only after the application connecting to the server has been verified do we authorize your authentication credentials - providing two levels of independent security.

As video and audio communications are streamed live from client to server and then on to other participants, there is no caching of data.  At no time is any information saved on the viewer’s computer, not even when watching a streaming recorded BYS Video session.  This avoids the possibility of anyone raiding the browser cache and saving unauthorized information to the desktop.

During transmission of audio and video data, BYS Video uses the RTMP protocol by Adobe. This is a proprietary protocol (unlike RTSP or HTTP, used by some of our competitors), which automatically reduces security threats. Additionally, using RTMPS, streams can be encrypted via SSL to 128kbit level.  Custom authentication schemes validate the SSL connection prior to passing any data from the server to a client.  Real time encryption is also provided, through use of the RTMPE protocol.  This real time encryption thwarts third party applications attempting to “rip” the data from the transmitted streams, because only BYS Video is able to decode the data transmitted from the server to the client.

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