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Securing CCTV Footage for Defence & Public Infrastructure

Powered by KVault — US Patented Split & Spread

A forward post that's overrun, or a utility's NVR that's ransomed, surrenders footage that still can't be opened — because no single location it was seized from ever held enough to open it.

The Challenge

Seize the recorder, and you have the footage

Most CCTV storage is a single target. Whatever sits in the recorder — at a forward post, an airport, a power station, a government building — is only as safe as whatever protects that one box. An overrun post surrenders its footage the moment it's seized. A ransomed on-site NVR hands over the same footage to the attacker holding it hostage. Defence and public-infrastructure operators additionally need footage to hold up as evidence — for a court of inquiry, a regulatory finding, or a criminal case — not just as playback.

KVault applies its Split & Spread principle to video. Every recording is sealed into fixed time-slices under AES-256-GCM. The three things needed to open a slice — the footage itself, that slice's own encrypted key, and the master key that unwraps it — are written to three separately-controlled locations. A breach of any one of them, on its own, recovers nothing.

How It Works

One governed pipeline, every frame

1

Capture

Direct RTSP/ONVIF ingest from the camera — no vendor cloud in between.

2

Slice

Cut into fixed time-slices — never one continuous, single-key file.

3

Seal

Each slice sealed under AES-256-GCM with its own unique 256-bit key.

4

Split

Footage, slice key and master key written to three separate custodies.

5

Retain

Aged out automatically on a retention policy — not a manual sweep.

6

Verify

Reopened only by decrypting all three pieces together — tampering fails outright.

Two Sectors, One Guarantee

Where the split matters most

Defence & Border Posts

A forward post that's physically overrun surrenders footage that can't be opened without custody it never held — and the same GCM authentication tag makes that footage admissible before a court of inquiry.

Airports, Metro & Rail

Hundreds of cameras across one site or many — the same split-custody model applies uniformly, with retention handled by policy, not manually per site.

Power & Water Utilities

Ransomware that reaches the on-site NVR finds ciphertext with no key to hold to ransom — there is nothing to encrypt a second time that isn't already unusable.

Government Buildings

The existing NVR estate stays in place — CCTV Vault's split-storage model sits alongside it rather than demanding a rip-and-replace on day one.

Why It Matters

Compromise one piece, recover nothing

256-bit key per slice

A unique key for every time-slice — never reused across a segment, camera or site.

Tamper-evident by construction

One altered byte anywhere in a slice fails its decryption outright — not silently accepted.

No vendor cloud lock-in

Direct RTSP/ONVIF ingest — footage never has to leave the operator's own network to work at all.

NVR-compatible

Four deployment models — full replacement through to side-by-side coexistence — none demand a rip-and-replace.

Policy-driven retention

Segments past their retention window are pruned automatically, consistently, across every site.

Scales per-camera

The difference between a single-site pilot and a hundred-camera deployment is a configuration change.

AES-256 is the cipher the NSA's Commercial National Security Algorithm Suite names for protecting information up to Top Secret — a statement about the algorithm, not a certification held by KGreen or any specific deployment.

See the split in action

A live demonstration: pull just the footage, or just a key, and watch reconstruction fail — then watch it succeed with all three pieces together.