Eagle Eye Is Winding Down 'Partnership' With Hikvision

By Charles Rollet, Published Jul 01, 2021, 09:43am EDT (Info+)

While Eagle Eye Networks has been partnered with Hikvision for years, doing multiple marketing efforts just this month, Eagle Eye CEO Dean Drako tells IPVM they are "winding down" their partnership.

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Over the past few years, Eagle Eye rivals including Genetec (Genetec Drops Support for Dahua and Hikvision) and Milestone (Milestone Drops Hikvision From Elite Partners) have already made moves to dissociate themselves with Hikvision.

Eagle Eye is one of the last sizeable Western companies to continue co-marketing with Hikvision despite its US government National Security Threat status, impending FCC ban, and "ongoing" human rights abuses.

Since these actions, Hikvision has had difficulty attracting US partnerships/promotions, however, Eagle Eye ignored this, continuing its longtime Hikvision support in multiple webinars in the past month.

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***** *** ******* *********, ** **quite ******** ** **** ** ********** ******** ** ********* **** *** ** *** **. This specific project was initiated quite a while ago when HIK started using our open source code for camera cloud connectivity. We *** *** **** ** ***** ** *** ********** to support their launch. That's *** *** *****. [emphasis added]

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***** *** *** ****winding **** its "partnership" with Hikvision since 2019 when their first issues became known. The webinar in question was a commitment on a project started before any of the Hikvision issues came to light. We would obviously not make the same commitment today.

We **** ** ***** *** ********* of Hikvision products. [emphasis added]

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We **** **** *** ***** **** * **** ** **** ********* ***** *******. We are a large company that operates with independence in different countries, so there may be some teams still winding down (I dont think there is), but everyone *** **** ***** ********* ** **** **** *** *** **** *** ********* ****** **** ***. This includes webinars and other events and "generic joint marketing". [emphasis added]

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We ***** ***** **** ****** ** **** *** ** ********** *** ********* ******* - we believe this would be very detrimental to their security, business operations, and a fundamental violation of their trust. [emphasis added]

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***** ***, *******, **** ****cyber ********, **** *******, *** ******** ******** ****** *********** **** *********. In 2017, Eagle Eye, introduced "Eagle Eye Camera Cyber Lockdown" to insure that any and all cameras connected to our system are cyber secure, not phoning home, and not creating back doors into the network. One might say, we were ahead of the security concerns around certain manufacturers from certain countries. [emphasis added]

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"Good *** **"

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Comments (1)

John Honovich

IPVM | 07/01/21 01:43pm

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