Network best practices for intrusion panels
To ensure performance and security, it’s considered a best practice to host your intrusion panels on an isolated network.
Performance considerations
To optimize performance, connect your intrusion panel to a Genetec Cloudlink™ through an isolated network. This isolates the panel from traffic for which it isn’t the recipient. Multiple panels can be connected to the same isolated network, unless the network is a hub for traffic unrelated to panels.
Intrusion detection panels aren’t designed to withstand heavy data throughput from the network, especially when broadcast messages occur often. Because the panel needs to process incoming packets to check whether it’s the recipient, this might lead to increased demand on processing resources. Under heavy network load conditions, the panel might drop offline and reconnect repeatedly.
Secure communications
If your panel manufacturer doesn’t use encryption in their communication protocol, your panels must be hosted on an isolated private network to prevent attackers from intercepting panel-related data.
Isolating your network
You can build an isolated network by adding a dedicated hardware network node (switch or router). Alternatively, you can create a dedicated Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) on a network node that provides network node configuration capabilities.