Monday, November 9, 2009

The importance of encrypting video over Internet

The importance of encrypting video over IP
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
How important it is to send video encripted and over the VPN?

The importance of encrypting video over IP

How important it is to send video over encrypted video VPN?
Read this article
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/video-hijack/
1. The attackers are able to view video being streamed across a network, and
2. The attackers are able to use a man-in-the-middle attack to insert video controlled by the attacker to a video decoder somewhere on the network.

The linked video shows viscerally how an attacker could foil a security/surveillance video system – a modern-day Thomas Crown Affair. But the underlying problem goes beyond the surveillance market and could conceivably affect a wide range of industries using video over IP. This is a big deal, and vendors of any form of network-connected IP video device – whether a camera, encoder, or decoder – should take note.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Surveillance equipment is typically small enough to go unnoticed by the majority of people.

Major types are video surveillance equipment, CCTV surveillance equipment, telephone surveillance equipment, PC surveillance equipment, employee surveillance equipment, GPS tracking surveillance equipment, loss prevention surveillance equipment, and counter surveillance equipment.