Honeywell K14392V1 Security Happenstance, Situation Preventive and / or Last Resort Measures

	System Administrator’s Guide
Table 10–4 Security Happenstance
Situation	Preventive and / or Last Resort Measures
vandalism	- schedule onsite equipment inspections
	- use access control to access Multi-Media units at sites
vandalism or	- schedule regular connections to each Multi-Media unit in your security
operator error	system
using many Multi	- through training, discourage the use of many Multi dbs; using more than
databases	one db, using different system passwords, is beyond the product’s design
	and deemed unsafe.
	- as a last resort, use the last valid password utility, as explained in Last Valid
	Password on p. 174.
breach of trust	- refrain from communicating a system password to a Multi SA running
	another Rapid Eye system

- ask security personnel to exercise vigilance if operators have accounts with enough rights to jeopardize the data on a Multi-Media unit

- as a last resort, contact Multi technical support for help, as explained in For Questions on p. 22.

Compromising video recording

Setting the Recording of a camera to OFF. Video is not recorded when Recording is turned OFF. This is easy to detect: each camera shows a recording meter during a Live Session. See figure 10–11.

Fig. 10–11. Identifying a Camera that is Not Recording, in a Live Session.

If a corrupt operator turns Recording to OFF, Live would still work but no recording would be available. Such abuse can be traced, as explained in Tracing Events, below. See also Cameras, on p. 65.

Camera brightness. Video may be compromised when the brightness setting on a camera is set too high or too low. Your PTZ cameras may be installed in a way that they can be turned away from the sun. See the Rapid Eye View Software Operator Guide.

Resetting the time/date. It can become complicated to analyze video “footage” after the time and date of a Rapid Eye unit is changed recklessly. Recordings with incorrect time and date stamps could be of no use to a court of law. You can trace events leading to such abuse, as explained below, in Tracing Events. See also Unit’s Time Zone and Clock, on p. 56.

Scheduling cameras to not record. See Scheduling: Configuration, p. 105. This feature is designed to spare storage. It can be abused to defeat security. Use of the Boost button overrides a turned OFF recording setting for video. See figure 10–12.

Countermeasures

.An effective countermeasure strategy includes Camera Sabotage: Detection and scheduling short Retrieval sessions on all cameras to spotcheck that Rapid Eye sites are recording as expected. One can also check if the environment has diminished the effectiveness of a site. Verification can

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