China's Hikvision Says Video Gear is No Threat to US Networks

China’s Hikvision told the FCC it shouldn’t be included on the agency’s “covered list” of equipment that threatens U.S. networks, in a filing posted Thursday in docket 21-232. The company’s video surveillance equipment doesn’t pose “any unique or material cybersecurity threat either to the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure or to American businesses or end users,” Hikvision said: “Its equipment can be, and frequently is, set up in configurations that are not connected to the Internet or any outside network, and thus are protected against the possibility of inbound cybersecurity attacks because there is no point of entry from which a third party could attempt to access the equipment, and are also protected against outbound data transmission because the system is not connected to any outside network.”