Honeywell Rapid Eye System Administration Manual page 202

Security for a Multi-Media System
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Camera brightness. Video may be compromised when the brightness setting for a
camera is set too high or too low. Your PTZ cameras may be installed in a manner that they
can be turned away from the sun. See the
Remote View Operator Guide.
Resetting the time/date.
date of a Rapid Eye unit is changed. Recordings with incorrect time and date stamps could
be of no use in a court of law. You can trace events leading to such abuse of the unit, as
explained in Events, page 207. See also
Tracing
Scheduling cameras to not record.
feature is designed to efficiently use storage space. However, it can be abused to defeat
security. Use of the Boost button can override a camera that is not scheduled to record.
See
Figure 10-10.
Countermeasures
An effective countermeasure strategy includes using
scheduling short Retrieval sessions on all cameras to check that Rapid Eye Multi-Media
sites are recording as they are configured to. One can also check if the environment has
diminished the effectiveness of a site. Verification can supplement tracing of events, as
explained in
Tracing Events
a video feed from a camera with recording turned OFF (see
Clearing Storage to Destroy Recorded Video and Deny Service
Clearing a unit's storage or one of its streams destroys all recorded video and, during the
time that a unit is emptied (up to a few hours; see
Multi-Media unit cannot show live video, record video, send alarms, and so on. To do so
requires use of the Administrator account password.
Caution Honeywell recommends that you properly train users that have the right to
use the Clear Storage or Clear Stream buttons.
Compromising the Response to an Alarm
Scheduling alarms to not trigger.
is designed to control some obvious false alarms; but, it can be abused to defeat security.
Using more than one Multi-Media database.
password A with the LVP utility, to create a site definition for units protected by system
password B, can lead to confusion if that user were to update security on the unit. The LVP
utility does not change the system password on the unit, updating security does. Updating
security with another A system password locks out all other View Operators who attempt to
log on (using their usual B database), thus jeopardizing their ability to respond to alarms
and to make requests for video clips/stills.
Caution Honeywell does not recommend using multiple databases, even if they are
set to the same system passwords.
Rapid Eye™ Multi-Media Digital Video Recorder
It can become complicated to analyze video after the time and
Unit Time Zone and
See
Scheduling
on page 207. Boosted recording can override a unit to record
Clearing Storage
See
Alarms and Scheduling
Using a database, A, set to system
Clock, page 64.
Configuration, page 115. This
Tamper Detection (page 129) and
Figure 10-10).
on page 139), the
on page 119. This feature