# AMWA BCP-003-01 Secure Communication in NMOS Systems

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### 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.

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## Getting started

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