ONVIF, the leading global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, announced that it is launching a proactive education and enforcement campaign designed to ensure that all claims of ONVIF conformance by manufacturers of IP-based physical security products are valid.

The education and enforcement initiative aims to further protect the ONVIF brand and more preemptively monitor ONVIF?s copyrights, trademarks, and logos on an ongoing basis.

The campaign will also help further educate the manufacturing community about the specific requirements of compliance and their ability to advertise individual products as ONVIF conformant.

The only method of determining a product?s conformance is through a listing on the ONVIF website, where conformant products can be easily searched using a variety of criteria.

An entry on the ONVIF website signifies that the product has undergone ONVIF?s comprehensive testing and conformance process, and has been individually certified by ONVIF as conformant.

There are currently more than 3,300 individual conformant products listed.

?We recognize that the credibility of the ONVIF brand is crucial to the success of the standard and the organization going forward, therefore we take the protection of this brand very seriously,? said Per Bj