Onvif presenta el primer complemento para comunicaciones seguras TSL

The final version of the TSL configuration add-on, already approved by the standardization initiative Onvif, increases the security of communications between devices and software clients within a protected physical system.

The first add-on for protected communications approved by Onvif supports the configuration for transport layer security encryption, allowing a video management system to initially schedule or update TLS on a compatible device, such as an IP surveillance camera, to support encrypted communications between the device and the client.

'The importance of cybersecurity is growing, and the use of TLS as a fundamental layer for cyber resilience is a foundation,' it emphasizes Leo Levit, chair of the Onvif steering committee. With this new add-on, los usuarios finales y los integradores de sistemas pueden continuar combinando productos de diferentes proveedores mientras disfrutan de una forma estándar de configurar TLS para mejorar la seguridad”.

El complemento de configuración TLS es el primero que presenta Onvif, cuyo objetivo es crear “una función o funciones que abordan un caso de uso específico o una necesidad del usuario final que aún no está cubierta por un perfil de la organización”.

Los complementos también son una nueva categoría de especificaciones Onvif que complementan los perfiles que tiene esta iniciativa para la estandarización, lo que permite a los fabricantes agregar o ampliar su conformidad para incluir ciertas características.

In this sense, Security products from manufacturers must conform to an Onvif profile before claiming compliance with an add-on like the one just presented by the organization.

The approval of an add-on allows Onvif to respond to market needs more quickly, con greater interoperability and flexibility, as well as more easily addressing evolving specification and technology requirements, as in the case of the cybersecurity.

For your part, Onvif profiles are fixed and permanent sets of features that allow a product to be developed as functional only within the profile. Add-ons also support version handling to accommodate new additions or technology updates, unlike profiles, which do not change.