Privacy & Security

Why local recording matters and how to keep cameras off the cloud and off the rest of your network.

• Why a local security camera system? — The case for owning your footage instead of sending it to a vendor cloud.
• How much does your router matter? — What you gain at each level of network isolation, and what router you need to go further.
• What is ONVIF? — What the ONVIF standard means when choosing or configuring cameras.
• Blocking cloud telemetry — What VLANs and network segmentation are, and why cameras should live on an isolated segment.