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Volume 11
April 2017 Edition
device simply needs ANY access to the Internet
to be a serious threat.
Traditional DVRs provide little or no protection from cy-
ber attacks (Illustration Credit: Eagle Eye Networks)
The Solution: Eagle Eye Camera Cyber Lockdown (Illustra-
tion Credit: Eagle Eye Networks)
Camera vulnerabilities include:
• Possible trojans from factories in a malevo-
lent country
• Lack of attention and testing for cyber secu-
rity by the manufacturer
• Possible backdoor accounts from the manu-
facturer either accidentally or on purpose
• Lack of firmware upgrades during operational
life of the camera from the manufacturer
• Difficulty in applying firmware upgrades
across all of the cameras
• High probability of misconfiguration by install-
ers (typically passwords)
These security weaknesses make them vulner-
able to attacks. Checking security cameras and
DVRs to determine if they have been compro-
mised is not a simple task.
The Eagle Eye Camera Cyber Lockdown sepa-
rates the cameras from the Internet onto an iso-
lated, protected network so they can’t be com-
promised or used maliciously.
The Eagle Eye Camera Cyber Lockdown is im-
plemented in the Bridge or Cloud Managed Vid-
eo Recorder located on the premise.
The Eagle Eye Cloud-Premise Flex Storage fea-
ture allow video to be stored in the cloud or on
premise, but still be managed in a consistent
fashion.
Rich Mellott, Director of Product Management at Stanley Se-
curity
Regardless of where the video is stored the Ea-
gle Eye video is encrypted both in transit and at
rest and the Camera Cyber Lockdown will block
the attacks from and to the cameras.
“As an integrator we offer a variety of services
and solutions to our customers to cover a wide
range of applications from small business to en-
terprise organization,” said Rich Mellott, Director
of Product Management at Stanley Security.”
“At the local level we do a lot of small commer-
cial and industrial installations that are very price
competitive and often times it requires us to le-
verage cameras that are not cyber hardened like
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