A Zero Trust overlay gives LiveView Technologies deny-all-inbound security, centralized visibility, and lower cloud costs across a mobile camera network spanning multiple carriers, clouds, and edge sites.
0 Inbound firewall ports required
100% Outbound-only connectivity
1 Overlay, with no VPNs
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A rapidly growing, globally distributed camera network became an expensive, hard-to-secure connectivity problem.
A software-only Zero Trust overlay replaced VPNs, private APNs, and perimeter firewalls.
Lower egress costs, centralized visibility, and a network-independent architecture built for what’s next.
LiveView Technologies (LVT) is a leading provider of advanced mobile surveillance units and security solutions. They serve energy, law enforcement, DOTs, retail, and construction customers who rely on LVT to monitor and protect people and property in remote, high-risk, and high-traffic environments. LVT’s D3 Mobile Security Units are built for the field: solar- and battery-powered, backed by zero-emissions fuel-cell generators, and fully off-grid and mobile, with cameras mounted on a 22-foot pole alongside two-way audio and lighting. That mobility is the whole point of the product: units get dropped wherever they’re needed, with no fixed network to design around.
As LVT’s customer base grew, so did the scale and complexity of that distributed camera network, deployed across diverse sites, multiple cellular carriers, and private 5G. Success created a new problem: a network that had become as much a liability as an asset.
“We are committed to making the world a safer place, and we are just as committed to protecting our clients’ data and information. Partnering with NetFoundry isn’t just a way to accomplish this; it’s the best way.”
Steve Lindsey, CTO and CIO, LVT
Legacy networking couldn’t keep pace with LVT’s growth. Cameras were deployed across cellular carriers, retail Wi-Fi, and, increasingly, private 5G, often without a consistent network to build security around. The camera network was rapidly becoming a rising cost center — and a security liability.
All camera and edge data had to route through LVT’s own sites before being distributed to customers, generating high cloud egress costs. Cellular costs were climbing too, and lower-cost alternatives like Wi-Fi often weren’t secure or reliable enough to trust with live surveillance data.
Dependence on firewalls, ACLs, VPNs, dedicated hardware, and static IP addresses meant overhead that scaled with every new deployment. The complexity was compounded by needing separate, bespoke setups for inbound access, outbound data flows, and different edge/cloud combinations, depending on the site.
Without centralized telemetry, identity, and policy control across such a distributed fleet, LVT’s automation initiatives stalled out before they could scale. Newer plans, like edge computing, deeper partner integrations, and broader private 5G and Wi-Fi use, were infeasible under legacy networking’s backhaul requirements. Even a multi-cloud strategy was blocked, since VPN backhaul from carrier APNs got in the way of using more than one cloud provider at a time.
LVT adopted NetFoundry’s software-only, network-independent Zero Trust overlay, eliminating the underlay dependency at the root of every challenge.
Rather than patch legacy networking piece by piece, LVT rebuilt the foundation: an architecture where the network underneath no longer mattered at all. NetFoundry’s Zero Trust overlay is embedded directly into LVT’s IoT application software via the OpenZiti SDK. It’s agentless, with no separate hardware or software to deploy in the field. Meanwhile, devices like LVT’s Nvidia-based edge hardware run thin agents where embedding isn’t practical. That distinction mattered for a fleet built to be dropped anywhere with minimal setup.
Because the overlay operates independently of whatever network sits beneath it, LVT eliminated private APNs and VPNs entirely and could freely use Wi-Fi, public APN, or private 5G depending on what a given site had available, without redesigning security for each option.
LVT, customer, and partner networks all receive LVT data without any network exposure. Every LVT unit, cloud server, and network resource stays inaccessible unless a device, service, or user completes proper multi-step authentication first. Instead of hosting perimeter security devices or opening firewall holes, every endpoint opens outbound-only sessions into the private LVT overlay. Firewall rules simply become deny-all inbound.
Some data now travels straight from cameras and edge sites to its destination, skipping the backhaul to LVT sites that had been driving up egress costs. And because the integration is embedded rather than bolted on, security travels with each unit from day one. It’s a natural fit for hardware that’s designed to be solar-powered, off-grid, and redeployed on short notice.
“Our units are completely wireless and rely on cellular connectivity for data transfer. This type of connection has inherent weaknesses that must be addressed to prevent attackers accessing the cameras and/or the cloud servers. Our partnership with NetFoundry adds another layer of protection to our servers and our units at the edge.”
Steve Lindsey, CTO and CIO, LVT
Beyond the cost savings, the shift paid off in ways that touched nearly every part of how LVT runs its network, from the visibility its team gets into a sprawling, multi-carrier fleet to the doors it’s opened for where the product goes next.
Despite juggling multiple last-mile bandwidth providers across a geographically scattered fleet, LVT gained centralized telemetry, controls, identities, and policies, improving both service quality and customer-facing visibility into what had been a fragmented network.
Eliminating the upfront costs and ongoing operational expenses of cloud egress, private APNs, VPNs, and hardware-dependent solutions let LVT redirect that spend into building its products instead of maintaining its network.
LVT’s business is protecting people and property; extending that same rigor to its own data and its customers’ data — with deny-all-inbound as the baseline, not an add-on — reinforces the trust its physical security customers are already paying for. And the network-independent architecture unlocked initiatives that were previously off the table, positioning LVT to keep shaping the future of mobile surveillance rather than being constrained by it.
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NetFoundry is a leader in Secure Workload Connectivity, helping IoT and physical security solution providers like LVT eliminate VPN and firewall dependencies with the only identity-first Zero Trust fabric for every site, device, and machine interaction. NetFoundry created and maintains OpenZiti, the open source project its platform is built on.
