Contractor Using Security Cameras to Spy Surveillance cameras are common devices in any large enterprise, especially those in crit- ical infrastructure industries. One Awake customer in the energy industry had thousands of these cameras on its network and learned that a contractor was using them to spy on employees in sensitive locations. Identifying what is on the network is a critical first step to securing it, especially as people bring their own devices to work and the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices steadily increases. The Awake Security Platform automatically identifies and creates profiles of all devices on a network – which in this case, included thousands of IP cameras. Importantly, these cameras had been compromised before the organization began using the Awake

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