SentryBay Armored Client prevents this by blackout-protecting hijacked video streams, rendering any stolen footage completely worthless, and neutralizing audio captures by replacing them with silent, empty recordings. Even if malware gains access, no usable video or audio data ever leaves the device — preserving user privacy, compliance integrity, and corporate confidentiality.
Camera and microphone hijacking allows malicious actors to secretly access visual and audio feeds from an endpoint. Once compromised, devices can become silent surveillance tools—recording meetings, workspaces, and personal environments without the user’s knowledge.
Examples of how camera and microphone hijacking can be exploited include:
Attackers can disguise spyware or injected code within legitimate applications, making surveillance activity invisible to standard AV or EDR tools.
Malware can hook into the audio or video stream, capturing conversations or live footage directly from the microphone or camera — even when applications appear closed.
Threat actors can manipulate system processes to disable indicator lights, mute notifications, or override camera and microphone permissions, enabling persistent stealth recording.
SentryBay’s Armored Client eliminates these risks by enforcing device-level isolation that prevents hijacking attempts before they start. Even if a threat actor gains access, captured video is automatically blacked out and audio recordings are rendered silent, ensuring no usable media ever leaves the endpoint.
Armored Client works alongside EDR/XDR/EPP and other security solutions with proactive, patented technology that prevents data loss from camera and mic hijacking, DLL injection, screen capture and keyloggers. Can’t detect it? No problem. SentryBay still stops data loss.
Armored Client prevents sensitive data theft from devices, creating digital parity for remote users.
SentryBay uses its patented, preventative controls to provide a lightweight, secure environment to solve the key security issues of VDI and DaaS on Windows, MacOS and thin client endpoints.
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