Zombies? Yikes!This image and stunt have made their way all through the Internet, even hitting people's updates on Facebook and LinkedIn. Click on the image and you can read greater detail into what happened, but apparently road signs are very easy to hack.
Fortunately, this person had a sense of humor about the whole thing. . . though I guess there's really not anything all that funny about zombies. But there are a lot worse messages that your internal communications audience could see if someone hacked into your digital signs.
This is why it's so important that you have tight security embedded in your digital signage networks.
MediaTile's Cellular Digital Signage provides many advantages across the board, but one of them is an extremely high degree of security and protection. There are five distinct areas we've implemented to lock-down the MediaTile solution from unauthorized access or control.
- No incoming calls - MediaTile displays do not accept any incoming connections or network requests. The proprietary software on the device initiates all communications. The only way a connection can be established with the display is at its request. The player communicates to the server only through the encrypted secure sockets layer (SSL).
- Dynamic IP addresses - Our digital signs are given a dynamic IP address through the cellular broadband network service only during the short period while the display has initiated the call. In cellular connections, no static IP addresses are given, and new dynamic IP addresses are provided on each call out.
- Custom configured operating system and player - The system software has all non-essential system services, including all communications-related services uninstalled (browser services, email services, etc). These typically are the the primary services used to gain unauthorized access to a device. Firewall software is also enabled and running, restricting network access to authorized programs only.
- Secure portal - The newly launched Mediacast 4.0, which controls content scheduling and delivery, is protected from unauthorized access in multiple ways. First, access to the system is available only through a secure https session with a user ID and password. Second, all communications between the user and the portal and the portal to the display are SLL-encrypted. Third, inside each portal, different users can have unique roles and permissions. As an example, this could prevent the same user who uploads content from scheduling and sending content to a display.
- Advanced cellular security – In cellular deployments, MediaTile supports the latest generation of cellular protocols that make it virtually impossible for unauthorized users to capture and decipher messages, data and other sensitive information. All communications between the player and MediaTile server are further encrypted for additional protection.
That's not good for business. That's not good for anybody.
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