By Staff Correspondent
At a time when incidents of CCTV Cameras getting hacked across the world has reached an all-time high, Raxa Security Solutions Ltd, a premier security company of the GMR Infrastructure Limited (GIL), has come up with much needed cyber security solutions for CCTV cameras. For this, RAXA has joined hands with a Bangalore-based IoT cyber security company, Redinent Innovations to address this imperative and serious need.
Raxa Security Solutions Ltd. provides top-notch security spanning physical, electronic, and cyber security domains. Besides providing security to GMR Group assets, it delivers its services to several premier clients in 15 states across India. Backed by experts in the field of physical, electronic, and cyber security, it has established benchmarks in the industry. It has partnered with several well-established and promising upcoming companies to provide specialized solutions in electronic and cyber security.
RAXA excels in providing techno security solutions that extend beyond customised services like cyber security, automation & system integration, events management, executive protection, drone-based service, etc. RAXA takes pride in an unparalleled training academy spread over 100 acres at Anantapur, Andhra Pradesh. Our security professionals are well-known in the industry for their agility, security awareness, and diverse type of security requirements.
Redinent Innovations is one of the fastest emerging players in IoT Cybersecurity in India. Redinent provides specialized and advanced technology security solutions for IoT devices such as CCTV IP cameras, NVRs, GNSS Receivers, Smart Energy Meters, and more.
Beyond known vulnerabilities, security misconfigurations, and protocol-prone threats in IoT devices, Redinent also identifies undocumented hidden threats that are not available in the public domain. Redinent automated threat assessment solutions can help organizations detect vulnerabilities that may lead to Man in the Middle attacks (MITM), Stream Hijacking, Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), HTTP-based buffer overflows, and many more.
Like any other digital device, CCTV cameras also have become one of the largest attack vectors for cyber-attacks such as video snooping, MITM attacks, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, Ransomware, etc.
In one of the major recent incidents of surveillance camera breach, in March 2021, a group of hackers allegedly gained access to live feeds of 150,000 CCTV cameras inside hospitals, companies, police departments, prisons, and schools through a ‘Super Admin’ account and hacked a massive trove of security-camera data collected by a Silicon Valley start-up.
“CCTV cameras are one of the most prevalent devices to contribute to the safety and security of organizations and society. Over a billion CCTV cameras are installed all over the world today. Hacking of CCTV security cameras has become prevalent these days. It has forced the CEOs, CISOs/CSOs of organisations to think seriously about the security of CCTV cameras installed in and around their establishments. RAXA has come out with a lasting solution to this and is ready to provide security solutions to organisations in collaboration with Redinent Innovations,” said GUG Sastry, CEO, RAXA Security Solutions.
According to IoT search engines such as Shodan, Censys, etc., over 10 million CCTV cameras have already been hacked worldwide and many more millions of cameras are highly susceptible to such hacking. The vulnerabilities of Real-Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP), which is the key video streaming protocol for CCTV cameras, can allow manipulation of real-time feeds to the command centre and let security get completed compromised.
The protection of CCTV footage is covered under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and other IT Acts, across the world.
