Latest headlines: Scott Tiner on Log4j, Helen Matthews on the professional camcorder market, plus news from Magnima, Sharp/NEC and more
January 10, 2022 | Volume: 8 | Issue: 1
Good morning, end-user friends! I hope you all had a restful time over the holidays and that you are entering the New Year with excitement and preparation!
Let’s talk about cybersecurity. Scott Tiner wrote about a software flaw that flipped the cybersecurity world upside down in December: Log4j. 1. Why should you care about this? 2. Is this an AV problem or an IT problem? 3. How can we band together in support so we can keep this from happening again in the future? All questions Scott answers in this column. Check it out!
Let’s next talk about the professional camcorder market — I didn’t think we’d be talking much about this in 2022. However, the camcorder industry was greatly affected by COVID-19, as different “non-traditional” industries were suddenly looking for options to keep the content going during lockdown. Read this and learn more about how this market is very much becoming reinvigorated by these new use cases.
In late December, a flaw in software that is ubiquitous around the world was reported, and it sent cyber-security pros into a frenzy and turned the hairs of technology pros gray. There are countless articles about this vulnerability, so I am not going to go deep into the technology of what occurs. Here is what is important for us in the AV world to know about: Log4j.
COVID-19 has had a lasting impact on the professional camcorder industry. Its initial impact appeared to be negative, with the first half of 2020 seeing a significant downfall in sell-in compared to previous years. Lockdowns, social distancing and event cancellations affected markets across the globe, resulting in the majority of traditional end users halting investment in next generation camcorders, both due to the cancellation and postponement of events, budget limitations due to market uncertainty, as well as competition from pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) cameras. However, by the third quarter of 2020, demand for professional video acquisition devices from “non-traditional” verticals started to emerge, as organisations saw longer-term return on investment in video products and remote working solutions.