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title: Secure your content
description: Protect media from unauthorized access and hotlinking.
image: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cf-twitter-card.png
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# Secure your content

Media assets are vulnerable to hotlinking, unauthorized downloads, and piracy. Cloudflare Hotlink Protection blocks other sites from embedding your media, Stream signed URLs provide time-limited access tokens, and Access gates premium content behind identity policies.

## Solutions

### Hotlink Protection

Block unauthorized embedding of resources from external sites. [Learn more about Hotlink Protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/hotlink-protection/).

* **Hotlink protection** \- Block other sites from embedding or hot-linking your images and video without permission

### Stream

Live streaming with automatic recording and instant playback. [Learn more about Stream Live](https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/stream-live/).

* **Token authentication** \- Issue time-limited access tokens so only authorized viewers can access protected media

### Access

Zero Trust access control for applications and infrastructure. [Learn more about Access](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/policies/).

* **Identity-based access** \- Gate premium or subscriber-only content behind Cloudflare Access identity policies

## Get started

1. [Enable Hotlink Protection](https://developers.cloudflare.com/waf/tools/scrape-shield/hotlink-protection/)
2. [Secure Stream videos with signed URLs](https://developers.cloudflare.com/stream/viewing-videos/securing-your-stream/)
3. [Cloudflare Access get started](https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/access-controls/policies/)

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