ONVIF, a standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, has announced it will end support for Profile Q early next year since it contains certain specifications that are no longer consistent with current cybersecurity best practices.
Profile Q was developed to provide easy setup of a conformant device on an IP network. It requires a Profile Q conformant device to allow anonymous access to all ONVIF commands during the setup process in the factory default state. This does not follow current cybersecurity best practices, which recommend, among other things, that a network device require users to set passwords and other access rights before the device can be used.