International Security Journal - August 2019 - Special Report

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What keeps you
up at night?
From traditional risks to modern threats, one surveillance manufacturer
is taking a comprehensive approach to ensuring users’ peace of mind
Since the global roll out of IDIS’ branded
surveillance business—beginning
in 2013 in Europe and continuing
through the company’s Americas
launch in 2015—South Korea’s largest
in-country security and surveillance
manufacturer has presented its “total
solution” as a market differentiator. Designing,
developing, manufacturing and delivering
(completely in-house) a complete end-to-end
range of analogue and IP technology – from
recorders, through cameras, software and even
monitors—the company is increasingly known
for its total solution concept and approach.
However, in most discussions of the IDIS
Total Solution, the focus is on the company’s
wide range of high-performing analogue
and IP hardware options, VMS software and
innovations in AI/Deep Learning. Here, we
explore how the company’s “total solution”
approach extends well beyond its branded
and product offerings, into the R&D and
technological underpinnings of the offerings
themselves and how that “total solution”
approach has resulted in one of the industry’s
most complete, multi-pronged approaches to
managing both traditional video surveillance
headaches and truly modern, still evolving
threats to cybersecurity and data integrity.
We’ll look at the specific steps IDIS has taken
and incorporated at every step of the product
lifecycle to ensure and enhance peace of
mind for its partners, end-users and their
stakeholders, while still keeping its marketresponsive
innovation aggressive, performance
standards and ease of use high and total cost
of ownership low.
The headache: Cybersecurity
In 2019, cyberthreats against video surveillance systems have
reached an all-time high, with little relief in sight. This makes
cybersecurity a top area of concern—and in many cases, a new
area—for security professionals and their stakeholders. Beyond
traditional local and hardware security measures, the integrity,
confidentiality and accessibility of video surveillance data must be
protected during recording, retrieval and while in-transit.
IDIS considers and addresses cybersecurity concerns from R&D
through customer installation and has developed a comprehensive
set of technologies and features to ensure maximum protections
for end users. It starts with a best practice: educating installers
and integration partners on the importance of designing and
implementing a physically separate network (or partitioning an
isolated VLAN on shared network equipment) and continues
through a comprehensive, layered and multi-pronged approach to
ensuring maximum cybersecurity for users, focusing on securing
data access, securing data transmission and securing data
recording.
Securing data access
• IDIS NVR
products have
their own
firewall installed
that monitors and
controls incoming
and outgoing network traffic
based on a predetermined set of security rules, including IP,
MAC address and port authentication. The firewalls on IDIS
NVR products are designed and pre-configured to prevent
unauthorised access.
• IDIS’ use of Multi-factor authentication system utilising user
accounts and a registered mobile app to further limit access
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