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Interior and public safety

Keep cameras, control rooms and responders secure as cities get smarter.

Interior ministries and police forces now run tens of thousands of connected cameras and sensors, and send units into the field over public networks. Each device is a way in. We close those doors and keep video AI under national control.

Why it matters now

Camera networks have become a target in their own right.

In both cases below, attackers went for the surveillance system itself, not the IT network around it.

City police video · United States · January 2017

123 of 187

Network video recorders behind a capital city's police cameras were taken offline by ransomware days before a national event.

Source: city government statements, January 2017

Cloud camera provider · United States · March 2021

150,000

Security cameras in hospitals, schools, prisons and police stations were exposed after attackers found an administrator credential online.

Source: company statement and press reporting, March 2021

Challenges and how we help

Four problems we see in every safe-city program.

Challenge 01

Thousands of cameras and sensors, each one a door into the network.

Cameras, licence-plate readers and recorders are often installed fast, by several contractors, with default settings. Many end up reachable from the internet, and one weak device opens the whole video network.

Nested security zones with a controlled gateway at every boundary

How we help

Security architecture

Assessment, design and integration · designed by Beyond

  • Inventory and exposure review of the full device estate
  • Segmented video network with controlled gateways
  • Hardening standards written into every installer contract

One weak camera no longer puts the whole system at risk.

Challenge 02

Patrols, responders and mobile command run over public 4G and 5G.

Body cameras, patrol vehicles and mobile command posts send video and data over commercial networks. Each connection exposes an address, and the traffic shows where units are working.

Traffic split across three separate routes between two sites

How we help

VIPN · Virtual & Invisible Private Network

Invisible connectivity · powered by Snowpack technologies

  • Vehicles and mobile posts keep no public address
  • Works over any 4G, 5G or satellite operator
  • Control room servers reachable without an open port

Units stay connected without being exposed.

Challenge 03

Video AI must run inside national borders.

Face, vehicle and incident detection need large GPU capacity. Sending citizens' video to a foreign cloud is not acceptable, and many control rooms run on isolated networks.

Data, model and compute held inside one boundary

How we help

Sovereign AI

AI on infrastructure you own · designed by Beyond

  • Video AI on national infrastructure, sized to the camera count
  • Works with the video management systems already in place
  • Air-gapped operation where the control room requires it

Analytics at national scale, with citizens' data kept at home.

Challenge 04

The control room cannot afford a single point of failure.

Emergency calls, dispatch and video all converge on one center. An outage or an attack there stops the response for the whole city.

A sensor signal with one anomalous stretch flagged

How we help

Resilient control room design

Security architecture with VIPN backup links

  • Continuity design for dispatch, video and communications
  • Backup links over a second network, invisible to attackers
  • Monitoring of the critical equipment that keeps the center running

The response continues when one system or network fails.

Where we work in a safe-city program

From the camera on the street to the national data center.

System names are examples of what control rooms typically run.

LayerYour systems, for exampleWhere Beyond works
National data centerStorage and AI
Video storage, GPU clusters, intelligence databases
Sovereign AI — video AI on national infrastructure
Command and controlControl room
Video management such as Milestone XProtect or Genetec Security Center; dispatch and PSIM
Security architecture — segmentation and continuity
NetworkTransport
Fiber, microwave, public 4G and 5G, private LTE
VIPN — Virtual & Invisible Private Network for mobile units and backup links
FieldDevices
Cameras, licence-plate readers, sensors, body cameras
Security architecture — device hardening and exposure review
Core Beyond solution at this layerDesign and hardening

How a first project runs

Start with one district, prove it, then extend city-wide.

  1. 01

    Exposure review

    We map every camera, recorder and link an attacker could reach.

  2. 02

    Pilot on one district

    Hardened network, mobile units on VIPN and video AI on site.

  3. 03

    City-wide roll out

    Extend district by district, sized to the real camera count.

  4. 04

    Run and support

    Beyond stays accountable after go-live and trains your teams.

Request a confidential briefing.

We brief interior and police leadership in person, under the confidentiality terms your organization requires.

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