AMWA BCP-003-01 Secure Communication in NMOS Systems

What does it do?

• Documents best practice for using secure transport for NMOS API communications.

Why does it matter?

• A secure control plane is essential.
  • Need to ensure encryption is sufficient.
• These recommendations allow interoperability using widely adopted open technologies.

How does it work?

• Recommends using TLS 1.2 or better for HTTP and WebSocket messages.
• Recommends cipher suites.

Getting started

There is more information about the NMOS Specifications and their GitHub repos at https://specs.amwa.tv/nmos.