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July/August/September 2019 I 9 manufacturers in the electronic security industry still continue to perform their own cyber intrusion penetration testing (pen testing). Recently, manufacturers of IP cameras and cloud- based software have begun offering a closed yet highly featured system. One such provider has attracted the attention of several large systems integrators eager to recover lost profitability from integration labor. This manufacturer has also attracted investment analysts who realize that many end users needing small and mid-sized (less than 64 video cameras) systems no longer want to pay separately for software licensing; they want simplified and feature-rich cloud- based platforms. Several manufacturers in the top ten global market leaders in the IP video camera segment offer "open platform" products supporting noncompetitive partners, as well as a closed system of selected, higher featured and profitable products. Another interesting trend is the use of self-developed SoCs (system on chips) by the IP video camera manu- facturers in lieu of taking advantage of the highly competitive AI chipset market. This may result in less supported features, so the support of the BICSI RCDD and integrator is even more important to evaluate the best solutions. recognizes an automatic weapon or knife, communicates to a cloud platform and is distributed to command centers, mobile devices or mass notification systems. From 2013 to 2019, a security industry solution for an active assailant has moved from reactive response to real-time lifesaving. End user expectations on live video have driven IP video camera manufacturers to offer more efficient compression methods. Newer IP video systems use a high efficiency video codec (HEVC), also referred to as h.265, to squeeze multiple streams through an end user's network. A virtual LAN (VLAN) separates improved critical communications and mass notification from video streams. The term "open platform" continues to be overused and often does not mean plug-and-play commissioning of IP cameras on a local or cloud-based platform. IP cameras conforming to the popular Open Network Video Interface Forum (ONVIF) specification that defines communications between camera and the recording and viewing system often require support and pre-integration of both, as well as manual selection and verification of the camera and its supported firm- ware. In some cases, unsupported firmware can cause failure to run embedded analytic software in the camera, impacting the discovery of cyber vulnerabilities. Most FIGURE 1: Latest AI innovations include IP surveillance cameras that can immediately recognize the assailant's weapon, moving the security industry to real-time lifesaving response.