Monitoring Camera

The Internet security is not reliable. Hackers could hack in any company or organization.

A. The worst case would be broadcasting your home camera across Internet, so you could view your home remotely. Hackers could eavesdrop your Internet or login in order to view your home security or activity with your username and password.

B. Why should bank trust a security firm to monitor their branch offices by monitoring its activity remotely over the Internet using video cameras? Hackers could see all activity in a bank including users depositing or withdrawing cash. This is unsecured.

What should a bank do with their monitoring camera?

1. Bank could use dynamic encryption of video streaming to an outside security office, so security guards could view its internal activity. Only a few external terminals were configured to receive video streaming.

2. Bank could also use close circuit camera. The video server stays inside a bank. They could offer the following:

- A locked box connecting to the video server for video access. This locked box is accessible on a bank wall, so police could open the box and view inside activity in case of a robbery. Who could open the box and plug a laptop in as it’s visible to all people around?

- Video transferring and live streaming in case of an alert button pressed. The video server would start live streaming of internal scenes over a preconfigured Internet link to a security or police office. The server could also transfer out video of older scenes such as periods of 15 minutes, 30 minutes, or 1 hour before alert button pressed. In a second round, it could also transfer video of 2 hours, 3 hours, or longer periods of time as previously configured after the first round of transferring completed. This is to ensure that required videos were available quickly to law enforcement in case of emergency in the first round of videos transfer.

- The video server doesn’t accept any remote login or actions from an external source, i.e. it would originate video transfer or live video. This could be done easily by a simple packet analyzer.