Self-Screening Solutions
As the country’s lockdowns have eased up businesses face new challenges as they reopen and resume full operations. The top priority should be to protect their employees, visitors and customers while delivering a great customer experience. With Hikvision’s facility self-screening solution it will help reduce risk and protect people. It offers a complete system that provides temperature screening, mask detection with alerts, and an automated customized health inquiry. The facility self-screening solution is designed to protect employees and visitors, the solution provides a streamlined process for access control, visitor reporting and health status tracking.
TEMPERATURE SCREENING TERMINAL
The temperature screening terminal is new technology that is used for access control, but it has integrated high accurate temperature screening. It can quickly measure skin-surface temperature and notify the user about abnormal readings. The temperature screening terminal is the perfect product for office buildings, transportation hubs, retail centers and education centers.
The best feature on the temperature screening terminal is the health questionnaire. You can either scan a QR code to answer via your smartphone or answer via terminal on-screen questionnaire. Once a satisfactory questionnaire is submitted, the door will open. You could also have a visitor badge printed at that time. If the door station denies access it will initiate a video call.
SELF-SCREENING SOLUTION BENEFITS
Hikvision’s self-screening solution is fast, highly accurate, offers a touchless temperature screening and face mask detection.
- Highly accurate thermographic temperature screening, ±0.9°F(±0.5°C)
- Mask detection
- Alarm prompts when abnormal temperature or no mask is detected
- Automated, touch-free sign-in experience
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Multi-Factor Authentication
To help prevent phishing scams you want to set up multi-factor authentication on your devices. Due to cyberattacks on the rise it is recommended to use identity security and multi-factor authentication. Phishing scams steal credential information and they are the most common way for hackers to gain access to healthcare data. Using multi-factor authentication can prevent the ability to use stolen credentials.
HOW DOES MULTI-FACTOR AUTHENTICATION WORK?
Authentication is typically made up of two things; a username and a password. Multi-factor authentication adds two or more pieces of verifiable evidence or factors to the authentication process. The process is used to greatly reduce security concerns by lowering the chances of an account being accessed by the wrong person. Two-factor authentication is a subset of multi-factor and is a means of authenticating with just two pieces of verifiable evidence or factors.
There are generally four factors of authentication that we should use today:
- Something you have; a number generator like google authenticator
- Something you know; a password or passphrase
- Something you are; biometrics like fingerprint or facial geometry
- Where you are; GPS location tracked by your phone or IP address location
HARDWARE TOKEN
Hardware tokens are something you have. They can come in many forms. Back in the day the IT people in a company would carry little fobs on their keychains that had a small display with numbers changing
every thirty seconds. That was known as a time-based one time password (TOTP). This is still an option today but most executions of TOTP are implemented using a mobile app or SMS message.
Another popular hardware token is a Yubikey. A Yubikey is a hardware token that is generally plugged into a computer via USB. Some Yubikeys support near field communication which supports devices without USB ports.
BIOMETRICS
Biometrics have become mainstream with fingerprint readers and facial recognition technology that is embedded in mobile devices and laptops. With those implementations biometrics is used as an alternative to the username and password rather than as another factor.
GPS
GPS location is another factor that isn’t used much for multi-factor authentication, but it is frequently tracked to find if accounts have been breached.
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October is the seventeenth (17th) annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and the goal is to raise cybersecurity awareness. This blog will give an overview of pharming. Pharming is a malicious hacking attack. There will also be tips on how to identify this scam and avoid becoming a victim.
WHAT IS PHARMING?
Pharming is a type of cyberattack that redirects a website’s traffic to a malicious site that appears to be a real site. Pharming is often frequently used in phishing attacks. It is used to trick people into sharing login or bank information or other sensitive data.
The reason that this is effective is because a victim who visits the malicious website can see the valid domain name in their browser. The attacker must then trick the victim’s computer. They do this by going to the malicious website by either making changes to the victim’s computer or changing the destination IP address for a domain name. That is typically achieved by altering the victim’s domain name system (DNS) lookup.
HOW DOES PHARMING WORK?
How pharming works is when you enter an address into your web browser, your computer first checks for a valid IP address. If your computer sees an entry in the hosts file for that website it will go to that IP address. But if your computer doesn’t find an entry for that address your browser will ask your computer’s default DNS server to look up the IP address.
HOW TO STAY SAFE FROM PHARMING ATTACKS
Here are a few tips that can help you boost cybersecurity and stay safe.
- Enable multi-factor authentication (MFA) wherever it is available. This way if you do get tricked into sharing your information, the attacker will not be able to login to your real account.
- Keep your router up to date. If your router doesn’t have automatic updates, consider replacing it with a new one that does.
- Change the DNS settings on your router and devices to alternate
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Online Scammers
Due to the current pandemic most of us are working from home, including criminals and scammers. Criminals and scammers have been gradually more shameless since the stay-at-home orders have been put into effect. With popular television shows such as, “90 Day Fiancé,” “Catfish: The TV Show,” and others depict people being scammed by individuals online who are pretending to be someone they are not. Those scams are commonly known as phishing or catfish scams. These scams don’t just target and affect individuals, but businesses as well.
FALSE EMAILS
A lot of businesses, including law firms, have been targeted with false emails from people portraying themselves as the CEO of the business asking someone to “do them a favor” and buy gift cards or wire money. Most people know that these are scams, but there are some more complex scams. For example, scammers have registered domain names that appear to be very similar to a company’s domain name.
What the scammers will do is add an extra character to the company’s domain name or trademark or make an easily made mistake. Such as substitute “nn” in the domain name to an “m” or change a “t” to an “f” and therefore create a false, but official looking domain name. Creating a domain name is not difficult or costly which is why these scams are rampant.
FAKE DOMAIN
There is a similar type of scam that involves the creation of a fake store that mimics the business. They will create a domain name using the business’ trademark and adding a descriptive term. By doing this creates a domain name that appears to be related to the business.
After they do all of that then they purport to sell the business’ goods at a significantly discounted price to consumers. They will typically do this to steal a consumer’s credit card information or to sell poor quality knock-offs of the business’ goods.
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Cyber Threats
Not only do you have to worry about physical threats, you also have to worry about cyber threats and vulnerabilities. Vulnerabilities can allow attackers to run code, access a system’s memory, install malware, and steal, destroy or modify sensitive data.
WHAT ARE VULNERABILITIES?
The definition of vulnerabilities is in the previous paragraph. But to put it in simpler terms a vulnerability is a weakness in the software. When manipulated can give an attacker the means to do something malevolent or unlawful.
WHY SHOULD YOU CARE ABOUT VULNERABILITIES?
Google, Microsoft, and Apple create software updates every month for their devices, smartphones and home computers alike. Some of the software updates add new features, but most of them are to fix bugs or have patches for vulnerabilities. Thankfully your devices will automatically update, and you don’t have to think about it until you need to restart your device. There are three categories of software that every person uses, and each can have its own vulnerabilities:
- Operating Systems: all major operating systems; Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, and Android.
- Software Applications/Apps: Apps in the iOS and Android app store also get automatic updates from the vendor. But just because the app is in the app store it doesn’t mean that the software developer is supporting and updating their apps so be careful what you install.
- Firmware: Some systems on your network will have the operating system and software all bundled up into one package called firmware. Firmware is found on devices like smart doorbells or smart light bulbs.
PROTECTING YOUR NETWORK FROM VULNERABILITIES
You might not think about your internet connection. There are six times of systems on a network:
- Infrastructure devices: router, switch, wi-fi repeaters/extenders
- Laptops and desktops
- Gaming systems
- Mobile devices
- Network-attached storage, printers and other output devices
- Internet of things devices: “Smart” devices like smart TVs, smart light bulbs, smart thermostats, smart doorbells
Just like your computers and mobile devices, these devices have their own vulnerabilities. Some of the developers have discovered and developed patches for the vulnerabilities, while others will be discovered in the future.
The epicenter of your network is your router. It’s the device that connects to the internet and also protects the devices in your home from regular attacks coming from the internet. The router contains a lot of functionality:
- Firewall: protects your network from constant attacks from the internet
- DHCP server: assigns an IP address to each of the devices that connect to your network
- NAT server: acts on behalf of each device on your network to make requests to servers on the internet
- Your router also may include a time server, DNS relay, and maybe even a VPN server
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Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.
Panoramic Camera
Does your warehouse have wide open spaces that you want covered with cameras to make sure everyone in your facility is safe? Hikvision has a single camera that has a 180-degree multi-sensor PanoVu panoramic outdoor dome camera. THE DS-2CD6984G0-IHS has a 32 megapixel lens that provides all angles using a single camera with four lenses.
Traditional warehouses would need multiple cameras in order to provide a panoramic image. Typical coverage for panoramic video applications often require the installation of four cameras or a fisheye camera. With Hikvision’s PanoVu panoramic camera you can replace four standard cameras.
PRODUCT SPECS
Hikvision’s high resolution 32 mega-pixel PanoVu Multi-Sensor Camera includes different modes to improve coverage for a wide range of applications. Some of the applications include; panorama, panorama paired with ePTZ, and divided panorama for flex viewing. It also features:
- 1/1.8-Inch Progressive Scan CMOS Sensor
- Horizontal FOV 180°, Vertical FOV 95°
- Focal Length 2.8 mm, four lenses
- H.265, H.264 Video Compression Technology
- Four IR LEDs with 66 feet IR Range
The camera also includes IP67 and IK10 protection ratings to enable the camera to perform well in harsh outdoor conditions. Hikvision’s I series NVR can add the 32 MP PanoVu camera, offering a greater range of viewing options and accessibility than most 32 MP models in the market.
ACCESSORIES
There are a few mounting accessories that you can get for the Hikvision PanoVu camera as well.
- Wall mount PTZ bracket
- Ceiling Pendant Mount
- Pole Mount
- Corner Mount
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Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.
Manufacturing Operations
One of the most important operations that need to stay open during this trying time is manufacturing operations. Manufacturing facilities have a different set of challenges now to ensure the safety of workers, inspectors, and visitors while operating mow. The only way that manufacturing facilities will be able to stay open is if they follow the CDC guidelines.
TEMPERATURE SCREENING
Easy to operate Hikvision temperature detection cameras can facilitate safe reopening or continuing operations. The highly accurate thermal cameras can help you easily and quickly pre-screen employees, visitors, customers and vendors before they enter the facility. The benefits of doing a temperature pre-screen before staff and patients come into the facility are:
- Lessen Risk of Exposure
- Extremely Safe - Contactless Measurement from a Distance
- Instant One-Second Screening
- Smart - Only Screens Human Skin Surface
- Accurate up to ± 0.5 Degrees Fahrenheit with Blackbody Calibrator
APPLICATION SCENARIOS
- Indoor visitor entrance/exit – Rapid and effective temperature screening at a facility and visitor entry and exit points is critical. CDC screening recommendations are to use handheld thermographic cameras on visitors at the entry and exit points and throughout the facility. Hikvision’s handheld thermal cameras are accurate at distances from 3.3 to 6.6 feet.
- Office – Hikvision’s bi-spectrum camera models combine both thermal and optical imaging to provide excellent visual quality and identification capabilities for office-controlled employee entry and exit points.
- Main facility indoor entrance – use of face masks are widely recommended and even required in some facilities. Hikvision has an all-in-one solution that uses a DeepinMind NVR and provides these added features; mask detection, screening results are easy to understand on a user-friendly display interface and you can search by picture.
- Warehouse (indoor) and patrol temperature screening – Highly accurate thermal cameras integrate with Hikvision’s access control systems. It measures for elevated skin-surface temperature detection paired with time and attendance and personnel access control.
- On-the-go temperature screening – portable handheld thermal devices provide easy detection and instant results.
PROFESSIONAL CENTRAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
HikCentral Professional Central Management System is a powerful, flexible and efficient software to manage all cameras using server-client. Airports and seaports can use HikCentral for live viewing and long-term storage of video to comply with regulations. HikCentral also provides:
- Data can be intuitively searched, displayed and easily exported
- Local monitoring
- Instant alarm pop-ups
- Temperature measurement reports
- Identify information registered when elevated skin-surface temperature is detected
DISCLAIMER: HIKVISION’S PRODUCTS ARE NOT FDA APPROVED MEDICAL DEVICES AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE OR OTHER CONDITIONS, OR IN THE CURE, MITIGATION, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. HIKVISION’S THERMOGRAPHIC CAMERAS ARE DESIGNED FOR IMMEDIATE DETECTION AND PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF ELEVATED SKIN-SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN HIGH-TRAFFIC AREAS. WHEN MEASURING CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, PLEASE VERIFY THROUGH THE USE OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT AND/OR BY CONSULTING A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
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Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.
Opening Schools
Right now, governors, mayors and education leaders are trying to figure out if there is a safe way to open schools back up. A lot of parents are ready for schools to open back up so their kids can get the proper teaching that they need. Other parents are still concerned and are happy that schools may stay closed.
The best way to safeguard children, temperature screening at school entrances is highly recommended and pre-screening is one of the CDC guidelines for safe reopening. Hikvision has a metal detector and terminal with touchless temperature screening technology. It can quickly measure staff, visitors and student’s skin-surface temperature quickly and safely from a distance.
CHALLENGES WITH TRADITIONAL TEMPERATURE SCREENING
- Close contact required – temperature check with a thermometer must be done in close proximity
- Inefficient – traditional devices can only take one person’s temperature at a time
- High cost – traditional temperature-reading devices are performed manually and can be expensive
HIKVISION’S TEMPERATURE SCREENING
- Walkthrough metal detector with temperature screening – can detect objects as small as a paper clip. The metal detector has a temperature accuracy ±0.9 degrees Fahrenheit at 1.6ft to 5ft. It can also detect temperature in one second.
- Temperature screening terminal – measures human skin-surface temperature. The terminal can measure temperature at .98ft to 6.5ft in less than 0.2 seconds. It can also detect masks.
DISCLAIMER: HIKVISION’S PRODUCTS ARE NOT FDA APPROVED MEDICAL DEVICES AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE OR OTHER CONDITIONS, OR IN THE CURE, MITIGATION, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. HIKVISION’S THERMOGRAPHIC CAMERAS ARE DESIGNED FOR IMMEDIATE DETECTION AND PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF ELEVATED SKIN-SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN HIGH-TRAFFIC AREAS. WHEN MEASURING CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, PLEASE VERIFY THROUGH THE USE OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT AND/OR BY CONSULTING A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
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Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.
Back to Business
At the beginning of March, due to COVID-19, a lot of businesses have closed, mom and pop shops, restaurants, clothing stores, etc. Now a lot of those businesses are opening back up, but under conditions. There can only be a certain number of people in the business at a time, you have to temperature check, and have hand sanitizer and face masks available.
Hikvision has a back to business lineup of solutions to help businesses open back up safely. Solutions include density control and social distancing, touch-free entrances and exits, temperature checks from a safe distance and mask detection.
BACK TO BUSINESS SOLUTIONS:
Density Control and Social Distancing
Hikvision’s dual-lens people counting density cameras can facilitate social distancing. Their indoor and outdoor models accurately count people, track occupancy, and measure the distance between people.
Touch-Free Entry and Exit
Hikvision’s temperature screening terminal is an access control device that integrates with high accuracy temperature screening. It can measure skin-surface temperature and notify the user about abnormal temperature readings from a safe distance of .98 to 6.5ft quickly and accurately.
Temperature Pre-Screening from a Safe Distance
Using Hikvision’s temperature screening terminal or using their line of highly accurate thermographic cameras is simple with their easy-to-operate cameras
Mask Detection
Hikvision’s temperature screening terminal with mask detection integrates access control with high accuracy temperature screening for improved safety and security.
DISCLAIMER: HIKVISION’S PRODUCTS ARE NOT FDA APPROVED MEDICAL DEVICES AND ARE NOT INTENDED FOR USE IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASE OR OTHER CONDITIONS, OR IN THE CURE, MITIGATION, TREATMENT, OR PREVENTION OF DISEASE. HIKVISION’S THERMOGRAPHIC CAMERAS ARE DESIGNED FOR IMMEDIATE DETECTION AND PRELIMINARY SCREENING OF ELEVATED SKIN-SURFACE TEMPERATURE IN HIGH-TRAFFIC AREAS. WHEN MEASURING CORE BODY TEMPERATURE, PLEASE VERIFY THROUGH THE USE OF CLINICAL MEASUREMENT AND/OR BY CONSULTING A MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL.
About the Author
Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.
Banking Security
Banking and finance security solutions with Hikvision provide an integrated security technology. They contain an extensive portfolio that helps financial institutions improve operational efficiency, asset protection and brand management. Hikvision’s solutions include:
- HikCentral CMS – a fully scalable central management system for ease of monitoring single or multi-location financial institutions.
- TurboHD – HD over Coax solution enables upgrade to HD images and video using existing cable infrastructure, saving time and money over typical IP upgrades
- Line Queueing – improve banking operations by providing actionable business data on patron wait times. Ensuring optimization of staff levels and improving customer service
- Facial Recognition – allows for quick authorized access, efficient record keeping, asset protection and it supports loss prevention efforts
- Access Control – access control and optical biometrics secure employee access, while ensuring only authorized staff gains access to key and restricted areas
- Enterprise Storage – large-scale, affordable enterprise storage solutions enable efficient storage and retrieval of large amounts of video. You will save money on network bandwidth usage and lower your storage requirements
- Point-of-Sale (POS) Integration – POS integration, merging POS data and video, provides banks with better teller visibility, transaction verification, and loss prevention.
As you can see Hikvision has a lot of solutions for banking institutions. Give us a call and we will help you get a Hikvision solution for your bank or financial institution.
About the Author
Experience Audio Video has been serving Orange County and Area since 1999 for residential and commercial audio, video and security camera installation services. 5 Star Yelp Ratings, Thousands of Referrals, there is not a better choice than Brian Chappell and the Experience Audio Video Team (License #804783). One phone call and you will know right away the difference in working with Experience Audio Video vs. others in the area. Contact us now at 714-744-4455 or info@eav-inc.com for a Free Consultation.