Cybersecurity Services for Kudelski Security

Kudelski Security is a division of a Swiss company founded in 1951 to make audio equipment, which later became one of the world's significant conditional access businesses: the technology that stops people watching pay television they have not paid for. That is an odd lineage for a security consultancy and it turns out to be a useful one.

Broadcast conditional access is adversarial cryptography under commercial pressure, at scale, against attackers with real economic motivation and physical possession of the device. It produces a particular instinct about key management, hardware trust and what happens when the attacker owns the endpoint. Those instincts transfer directly to embedded systems, connected products and anything where the threat model assumes the device is in hostile hands.

CWS covers the enterprise IT side, which is a different discipline entirely: cloud posture, identity, detection engineering and the compliance programmes a corporate client expects. Under Kudelski Security's brand, so its specialists stay on the hardware and cryptographic work that its history actually makes it good at.