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Controlling the entire process leads to a higher integrity prod- uct since it hasn ’ t been touched by a collection of outside ven- dors or third-party manufactur- ers .
Beyond the supply chain , it ’ s
important that manufacturers reg- ularly employ external “ white hat ” hackers to try and break into their systems using the lat- est exploits available .
Federal agencies will need to utilize the Risk
Management
Framework (
RMF ) developed by
NIST ( National Institute of
Standards Technology ) to com- ply with the executive
order issued by the President in
2017 regarding cybersecurity . Is the device certified by other respected agencies such as the
UL CAP ( Cybersecurity
Assurance
Program )?
Cameras are not all the same with regards to their ability to protect themselves and your network , so it ’ s important to do the research .
How flexible and
efficient is installation and deploy- ment ?
For most deployments , it ’ s im- portant to have smart tools that can bulk install and
configure a large number of cameras si- multaneously . As part of the process , there should be a method to auto- matically generate
reports that log and document the in- stallation including credentials ,
IP assignments , and the differ- ent network configurations employed .
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