ONVIF Newsletter July 2025
Greetings from Leo Levit,
The summer season often brings reflection on progress made and the path ahead for the rest of the year. For ONVIF, the last 12 months have seen some of the highest levels of collaboration in our history in terms of the number of active member companies involved in our various profile development projects and other initiatives. This level of collaboration is especially important as we tackle specification development in such pivotal areas as cloud connectivity, video integrity, and further work with metadata and audio.
Our collaboration efforts also extend to working with other standards groups. We recently announced a strategic collaboration with the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) to address one of the industry’s most pressing challenges: maintaining trust in video in an age of sophisticated AI-generated content. This collaboration demonstrates our commitment to supporting the market as it navigates these types of challenges and maintains the fundamental principles of interoperability that benefit manufacturers, integrators, and end users alike. You can read more about the C2PA collaboration below.
Whether you’re currently an ONVIF member or considering becoming one, your perspective and expertise can help shape these vital standards in development. This opportunity extends to not only manufacturers and technology providers but also system integrators, consultants, end users, and anyone who shares our vision of interoperability. Membership is open to all.
The initiatives we’re pursuing today will define tomorrow’s security infrastructure. Together, we can ensure that openness and collaboration continue to drive our industry forward.
Kind regards,
Leo Levit
Chairman, ONVIF Steering Committee
News
Collaboration for Video Integrity
This initiative aligns the ONVIF media signing specification—which embeds cryptographic signatures directly in video at the point of capture—with C2PA’s Content Credentials, a metadata standard spearheaded by big tech, broadcast, and digital media firms like Microsoft, Adobe, Google, Meta, BBC, and Truepic.
The partnership will highlight the importance of ensuring video authenticity from creation through the entire chain of custody. This proactive approach not only protects against deepfakes and synthetic content but also reinforces trust in video used for investigations, legal proceedings, and corporate security.
At the heart of this effort is ONVIF’s Media Signing specification, which cryptographically signs video at the point of capture—establishing a hardware root of trust. These signatures allow end users to verify if footage has been altered, ensuring video integrity across the chain of custody.
Read more in our press release here.
ONVIF to Present at Intersec Saudi Arabia
The Intersec sponsorship follows ONVIF participation in the recent Security Middle East Conference 2025, which was held in Riyadh in mid-May. The event gathered security leaders from around the region for educational sessions and networking.
Middle East Development Supported by ONVIF Standards
ONVIF provides the standardized approaches needed to ensure that video surveillance, access control, and analytics technologies can evolve with the built environment. For developers and urban planners, ONVIF helps reduce vendor lock-in, extend system lifespan, and lower total cost of ownership—while enabling safer, smarter cities from the ground up.
Read more in our latest blog here.
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