Establish surveillance and security objectives

Before implementing the VMS, Milestone recommends that you establish surveillance objectives. Define goals and expectations related to capturing and using video data and related metadata. All stakeholders should understand the surveillance objectives.

Specifics of surveillance objectives can be found in other documents, for example BS EN 62676-1-1: Video surveillance systems for use in security applications.System requirements. General.

When surveillance objectives are in place, you can establish the security objectives. Security objectives support the surveillance objectives by addressing what to protect in the VMS. A shared understanding of security objectives makes it easier to secure the VMS and maintain data integrity.

With the surveillance and security objectives in place, you can more easily address the operational aspects of securing the VMS, such as how to:

• Prevent data from being compromised
• Respond to threats and incidents when they occur, including roles and responsibilities.

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The following control(s) provide additional guidance:

• NIST SP 800-53 PL-2 System Security Plan
• NIST SP 800-53 SA-4 Acquisition Process