#Eagle eye secure storage series#

'The primary reason is cost: we currently store around 20 petabytes of data globally, and that gets pretty expensive in the Amazon world.' There's also an architectural issue, said Drako: AWS separates storage (S3) and compute (EC2), whereas Eagle Eye uses a more hyperconverged system, with compute right next to the storage, so that live video can be viewed with low latency if necessary. 'We looked at using AWS, Azure.all of these things, but for the amount of data we store, it just doesn't work,' said Drako. Image: PanasonicĮagle Eye does its own cloud hosting, and the Panasonic acquisition will bring the company's data centre population up to eight - California, Texas, Canada, Japan (2), UK and the Netherlands (2). The wi-fi/LTE camera will be renamed the Eagle Eye NuboCam.

'But you are subject to the security posture of the camera manufacturer,' he added, 'because you don't control the firmware on the camera, so you're beholden to the camera manufacturer to make sure they're really secure and don't do anything dumb.'ĭrako noted that cameras and DVRs from Chinese manufacturer Dahua were heavily infected by the Mirai malware, and that Dahua and fellow Chinese vendor Hikvision are currently being 'extremely aggressive to put all the other camera manufacturers in the world out of business' by undercutting competitors' products by up to 50 percent. 'It's good - everything's encrypted, the cameras 'phone home' to the cloud, no ports are open - there are no security vulnerabilities,' said Drako. But what's the situation with the low-end, direct-to-cloud CameraManager?

#Eagle eye secure storage series#

The security of IoT devices such as video cameras and DVRs is a particularly hot topic following a series of Mirai botnet incidents, and Eagle Eye's flagship VMS product, with its 'cyber lockdown' feature, looks solid in this respect (see image above).