I attended the 2012 ISC West show and came away convinced that while video surveillance has evolved as a centerpiece of our industry, we can do more to secure video from the emerging threat of cyber breaches. Today digital and physical theft is converging. Countermeasures involve video surveillance integrated with security applications, and the opportunity to protect video and data should not be overlooked by integrators and left solely to overburdened IT departments.
Verizon recently completed their 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report, which is available at www.verizonbusiness.com/resources/, and reviewed approximated 800 new cyber crime incidents since its report a year earlier. An interesting finding is that 29 percent of the breaches were “physical.” This is the No. 3 breach category after hacking and malware. Physical doubled as a percentage of all data breaches in 2009, and doubled again in 2010. Video surveillance can be integrated with numerous applications to counter this trend.