Maybe one of the reasons the poster did not want to link the article is because the audit this finding is from was conducted 11 years ago.
Thieves, especially if there's a path to the room in which the cameras are accessed which is poorly covered by the camera distribution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_cheese_model
It’s not smart to rely on a single point of failure to protect everything 100%. Maybe if you’re protecting home movies lol. But at the Louvre? Sheesh…
- What if the routers / modems have a security vulnerability?
- What if there’s (accidentally) an exposed ethernet cable somewhere in the museum that would let someone immediately access a private VLAN?
- What if someone breaks into the security room? either physically breaking the door down or stealing the keys to the room. That’s one of the first few passwords i’d guess as a thief.
> What if someone breaks into the security room?
Normally a security / monitoring room has the cameras on the screen 24/7, so once you somehow get in and somehow there's nobody there and somehow nobody notices you breaking in... you just look at the screen.
Regarding the security room - sure the feed is live on the screen. That makes sense. But I would definitely expect more “admin” related features to require a login though. Like deleting footage, disabling a specific camera, etc.
Isn’t this suppose to be a “closed-circuit”.
Well, it is a "medium" password. Not "strong", not "weak", but "medium". It has 6 characters (instead of 8-11), it has big letters, small letters, the only thing missing being numbers and special signs. /s
Make security hard for users and the users will skip it entirely.
Of course, this also means we don't need Lester Crest to help us find out the vault contents (so no need to hack the security guard's phone for the wifi password either).
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