okay i wanted to do a a quick um video on the lorex
system as far as security goes there's some simple things you can do to make your system more secure
these systems are known not to be very secure none of these systems are
and um so here here's what i want to do first of all let's connect to our system
and what i'm doing is i'm connecting via chrome and the reason why i'm using chrome
is because i'm connecting through an https connection to my system instead of a http
um even though it says it's not secure it really is and the reason that it's saying not secure is
because i don't have a certificate on my system which is fine you're connecting to it locally on
your local network you don't need a certificate but everything that is sent to this site and back
to my computer is encrypted because i'm using https and i'll show you how to set that up
um first of all first thing you want to do is go into information on the bottom right here
and we want to do a backup of our system before we do any changes so you go to
information update and reset and then you hit import export and from here you want to export
your system so it says export right there hit export and you see it just create a file and put
it in your downloads folder in there you could copy that file whatever you want but that's the
backup of your lyrics configuration right now it's in your downloads folder on your computer
and then using the same utility you could actually import that file by going to import and browse to
the file and importing it and that way if you ever make a mistake you can always restore it
you could put that file on a usb stick stick it into the lorac system and connect
and re-import it through the lorac system itself you don't have to use the url to do it
okay so after you get a backup of your system and you're safe there we want to go back to
the main screen and the primary part of this main screen that we want to go to is network
and we want to go here to port number in the port number you can set up all these
as defaults or change them i changed a few of them for this video i also
changed them for my use as well first thing you want to do is max connections i forget what the
original number is for max connections but you don't want more than two or three there for that
you don't want like a whole bunch of connections to this system you don't really need it and this
is just for the url connection um the other thing is tcp port 3500 and udp port 3501 the problem
with those ports are those ports allow you to connect to your lorex nvr over the internet
so let's say you're in work and you want to set up a setting or change a setting on your system
you can connect to your lorax system through the internet using those ports
the problem with using those ports is you don't know who created this software it could be china
it could be somebody who doesn't there could be back doors and they can allow you to get into
your system without you knowing it so if you're going to connect to your system i i'd suggest
don't opening these ports in your firewall these you can't really do much about you got to put
something in there just to get this to save but do not open your firewall to these ports
and so we're going to leave them as the standard porch we're not going to use it
now http port is normally port 80 i think on this i changed it to 99 i'm never going to use it
to um to 99 you would have to put say colon 99 and then you'll be able to connect to it on your url
but i'm never going to use that that's not secure instead i enabled https port 443 and
i enabled it here and then when you put the ip in it automatically connects through 443 which
is an encrypted connection to your lorax system so all the data being transferred
between your workstation and the lorac system will now be encrypted on 443. the problem is
with 443 you're going to have to use a browser like on chrome i.e edge even firefox i could not
connect without without bypassing their connection when you're using chrome chrome lets you bypass it
it is still encrypted so that's fine but if you're going to use 443 you're going to
have to use chrome now port 554 on the rtsp port is for your workstation to communicate
with the lore except for special applications i'm not sure what those applications are
um i'm not sure if you could change that port but um it's all local traffic i don't think you'd have
to worry about it um but that's the only thing i can say is um that port has to be set up somehow
and you might also keep it as the default now the ntp server is the actual time server and what this
does is the loric system goes out and gets the time from like a government site like nasa or
something and that's how you get your timestamps at atomic level times and dates if not it's going
to use the internal clock inside the lorex system but this is is a better way to get time
so um the rtsp allows you to connect using like a command line of some kind i think um
the problem with not setting up any of these ports is um the lord it could have
back doors in it you don't want to connect to your system over the internet if you can
connect if you want to connect your system over the internet you buy yourself a vpn and
you connect to your workstation over the internet and then you connect to your lorax system that way
lorex allows you to connect over the internet as a standalone device but you don't want to do that
and that's just about it for the part one of the security system i'll probably do a part two
but you want to set these ports up and i'll probably be changing some
of these ports after i'm done but um use 443 is the primary
thing you want to do here and never open up the firewall ports to the lorax system
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