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FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
MAKING
IP VIDEO
CYBER
SECURE
How financial institutions should be implementing video surveillance on their networks
By Stephen Joseph
Financial institutions have been histori- cally slow to adopt IP video surveillance citing concerns about possibly compromis-
ing network security. But, in fact, there are steps institutions can take to harden network access through the camera so that the risk is no higher than any other devices attached to the company’s su- per information highway. Furthermore, the economic and operational advan- tages of going digital—from centralized storage to authorized real-time access through the cloud to remote diagnos- tics and remote maintenance—make a strong case for migration.
For the transition from analog to digi- tal surveillance to go smoothly, however, corporate security officers need to work closely with their IT counterparts to better understand and align themselves with cur- rent network policies and standards. They need to convey bandwidth requirements for any new technology so that the network infrastructure can be designed to accom- modate IP video traffic. And they need to work closely with manufacturers to under- stand the security features of the products
they intend to install so that they can limit potential vulnerabilities to cyber threats.
Cyber Security:
A Process Not a Product
Technology and features are important, but
they won’t eliminate all risks or threats. Ac- cording to a report issued by Trustwave Se- curity, more than 90 percent of successful breaches are due to human error, poor con- figuration and poor maintenance, which is why it is so important to understand and
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