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Physical security systems and devices, including CCTV cameras and access control systems, are smarter, more powerful and more connected than ever before. As part of both public and private networks, they are increasingly unified to facilitate their management, speed up communications, increase data sharing, and, most importantly, empower security professionals to keep people and organisations safe and secure.


However, while citizens and businesses benefit from this growing connectivity of security, emerging cyber threats, hazards and criminal activity can lead to new vulnerabilities and risks in a well- documented convergence between physical and cyber.


Hacking a security system


As we have previously spoken about, a less than secure camera or unprotected communications between a server and client application is all that a cyber criminal needs.


As the scope of cyber attacks is increasing, there has also been a rise in cases of cybercriminals getting into private security cameras to access the video and images they contain. Hacking a security system can take any number of forms, including brute force, packet sniffing, and man-in-the-middle attacks. In the latter case, cybercriminals are able to ‘listen in’ to communications that the participants believed to be secure.


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