Avixa has published ‘Recommended Practices for Security in Networked AV Systems’ as a guide for current best practices for securing networked AV systems of all sizes.
The recommended practices were developed by a task group of security experts and technology managers from Aecom, BAE Systems, Cornell University Ithaca, Crestron Electronics, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Harman, International Criminal Court, Meyer Sound, Sound Control Technologies, and PITM Consulting.
Ann Brigida, Avixa's senior director of standards: “We have a responsibility to the enterprise whose networks we're on to make sure our AV systems are not enabling intrusions; that we've done everything we can to understand what's at stake and take steps to mitigate the risk for the entire enterprise.”
The best practices include identifying vulnerabilities and potential threats created by the network integration of AV systems, assessing risk (identify, analyse, and evaluate), developing a plan to mitigate and respond to identified and unidentified risks by deploying controls to continuously address and manage security risks in AV systems.