IPVM's Reports

IPVM's independent reporting is divided into 3 categories: (1) Public, (2) Info+: news, profiles, tutorials, etc. and (3) Research: tests, shootouts, competitive and financial analysis.

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Dahua Selling Protestor / Banner Alarms, Deletes Evidence

Political protests are quickly suppressed in the PRC, most famously with the recent Beijing Bridge Man banner. Dahua is offering a technological...

By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Hanwha 1 High and 2 Medium Security Vulnerabilities 2023

IPVM discovered 3 vulnerabilities, 1 high and 2 medium severity, during cybersecurity testing of Hanwha IP cameras. We reported to Hanwha...

By bashis mcw - over 1 year ago | 3 Comments

Verkada Below Average Facial Recognition Tested

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By Mert Karakaya - over 1 year ago

Canon Leasing And Axis/Milestone Special Rates Examined

Leasing is uncommon for video surveillance systems but Canon is trying to change that. While it has owned Axis and Milestone for nearly a decade,...

By Angelique Chen - over 1 year ago

Video Surveillance History, 2000 - 2024

The video surveillance market has changed significantly since 2000, going from VCRs to now AI and the cloud. The goal of this history is to...

By IPVM Team - over 1 year ago | 72 Comments

Low-Tech Access Control: Master Keying Explained

Mechanical keys are one of the most fundamental forms of access control. 'Master Keying' can allow individually different credential keys to...

By Brian Rhodes - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Avigilon Alta (Ava) LPR Tested

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By Rob Kilpatrick - over 1 year ago | 5 Comments

Uniview Favorability Statistics 2023

PRC-China-based Uniview has become an alternative to Dahua and Hikvision after the US NDAA ban and sanctions against its top rivals. However, the...

By Angelique Chen - over 1 year ago

Massive Leak Found For AJCloud, Top Provider for Amazon Sold IP Cameras, AJCloud Pushed Us to Hide Leak

IPVM discovered a massive data leak in Ajcloud's Gitlab open-source development platform. When we notified the company, they asked us to hide their...

By bashis mcw and Sean Patton - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

NVR Rankings 2023 - Axis, Dahua, DW, Geovision, Hanwha, Hikvision, Speco (TVT), Uniview, Vivotek

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By John Scanlan - over 1 year ago | 9 Comments

Storage Competitor Lawsuit: MBX Vs. Tom Larson

Tom Larson has been a leader at 3 notable storage competitors in the last 3 years, leaving BCD as CTO, briefly becoming director of safety and...

By Christie Smythe - over 1 year ago | 7 Comments

Oosto Cuts Execs, Expands to Cloud And Reidentification

Oosto is going through a major management shake-up, while also announcing a significant shift in architecture and analytics offering. Oosto...

By Sean Patton and Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago | 6 Comments

Hikvision And Dahua AI Plans Examined

Hikvision and Dahua are touting new AI plans to their PRC investors as ChatGPT sparks an AI frenzy in the PRC. The manufacturers face...

By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Ubiquiti Favorability Statistics 2023

Ubiquiti has been one of the most commonly complained about manufacturers in our product shortage surveys but how would this impact the...

By Angelique Chen - over 1 year ago

Weak IFSEC 2023, Now 2024 Show Moving 6 Months Back

IFSEC International's show traffic was widely criticized, with a senior manager at Hikvision, one of its largest exhibitors, even calling it a...

By Charles Rollet - over 1 year ago | 11 Comments

Critical Vulnerabilities In Hikvision Hik-Connect, Hikvision Hides From Public

IPVM discovered vulnerabilities that allowed taking over any Hik-Connect user's account simply by listening to network traffic. Hikvision...

By bashis mcw and Sean Patton - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Hikvision Hik-Connect 5 App / JWT Vulnerabilities Analyzed

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By bashis mcw - over 1 year ago

Monitronics / Brink's Home Security Chp 11 Bankrupt, $500 Million Burned

Just 4 years ago, Monitronics declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, burning lenders for nearly $900 million. Now, Monitronics is doing it again, burning...

By John Honovich - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Hik-Connect 5 App / Cloud Cybersecurity Tested

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By bashis mcw - over 1 year ago

Evolv Coaches School to "Get Ahead" of "Misinformation" and Critics

While Evolv deceives the public with its marketing and hides performance limitations, a new disclosure of public records obtained by IPVM shows...

By Donald Maye - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

Nightingale Security Drone Profile 2023

They were the first security drone company (we profiled them first in 2015) and now the company is publicly traded but it is still facing...

By Nikita Ermolaev - over 1 year ago

Cobalt Claims Majority of Security Robot Market (2023 Profile)

While Knigthscope has dominated media attention for years and ADT is touting its 1X/Haoldi partnership, Silicon Valley-based Cobalt Robotics tells...

By Mert Karakaya - over 1 year ago

Flock Expands Into General Surveillance

Flock is building upon its market-disrupting quick deploy LPR cameras (tested), and hundreds of millions in funding, now taking on general...

By Jermaine Wilson - over 1 year ago | 27 Comments

Hikvision TandemVu vs. Uniview Dual Lens PTZ Tested

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By Katie Ferry - over 1 year ago

Milestone Revenue Up, Profits Down 2022 Financials

While Milestone's revenue grew significantly in 2022, the ~25-year-old company's profits plunged. The company told IPVM that it would sacrifice...

By Angelique Chen and John Honovich - over 1 year ago | 2 Comments

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