From the Editor's Desk

From the Editor's Desk: Something old and something new
SMART Mining Security Solutions 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to the 2024 edition of SMART Security Solutions’ Mining Handbook. Mining is a challenging industry for security professionals, although security is a challenge on this continent, no matter your ...

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From the editor's desk: Securing your secure access
SMART Access & Identity 2024, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to SMART Security Solutions’ first print publication of the year, the SMART Access & Identity Handbook 2024. In this issue, we cover various issues relevant to this industry, from digital to ...

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From the editor's desk: A sad but exciting goodbye
Issue 8 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Welcome to the final monthly issue of SMART Security Solutions. This is the last issue of the year and the last monthly issue we will print. The SMART Security Solutions team wishes all our readers and advertisers a relaxing festive season and a peaceful and prosperous 2024.

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From the editor's desk: Convergence is real
Issue 7 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      SMART Security Solutions has been talking about convergence for a long time; in other words, the intersection and even integration between the physical and information security worlds. Before writing ...

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From the editor's desk: Security integration complexities
SMART Estate Security 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Welcome to the first issue of the SMART Estate Security Handbook. It’s not really the first handbook we’ve done on estate security, but the first under the new SMART branding. This handbook is slightly different, although still on the same topic, in that the focus is mainly on integration and the need for products and service providers that make it easy to connect whatever you want to whatever else you want to achieve a holistic solution.

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From the editor's desk: Is security the new analogue?
Issue 6 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Back in the old days, when I started with SMART Security Solutions (or Hi-Tech Security Solutions, as it was known then), one of the major ‘revolutions’ of that time was the imminent demise of analogue ...

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From the editor's desk: Both sides of the coin
Issue 5 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
We live in a country with, at best, an unemployment rate sitting above 30%. At the same time, we continually hear about companies struggling to find skills or that are unhappy with the people they hire. ...

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From the editor's desk: First cloud, then edge, but all AI
SMART Surveillance 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to the SMART Surveillance Handbook 2023. This is the first edition of the handbook under this branding, but regular readers will remember many issues of our ‘old’ CCTV Handbook. As it turns ...

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From the editor's desk: Get SMART
Issue 4 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Welcome to the fourth issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions for 2023, which is also the first issue of SMART Security Solutions. As noted in previous issues, Hi-Tech Security Solutions has been rebranded to SMART Security Solutions as the publication evolves to incorporate more of what makes up the security industry today.

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From the editor's desk: Mining is the easy part
SMART Mining Security Solutions 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to the Smart Mining Handbook 2023. Security and risk management have always been an important component of extracting wealth from the earth, but mines today face an extraordinary onslaught from ...

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From the editor's desk: The makeover
Issue 2/3 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Welcome to the latest issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions, which is also the last issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions (sort of). We are currently working on our next issue, which is the Smart Mining Handbook, after which there will be a bit of a surprise in Issue 4.

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From the editor's desk: Drive to survive
Issue 1 2023, Technews Publishing, News & Events
Nobody is surprised by the horrible driving habits of many people on South Africa’s roads. Lack of policing, except when collecting money, and the related overall acceptance and encouragement by government ...

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From the editor's desk: No fond goodbye
Issue 8 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to the final issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions for 2022. Personally, I have absolutely no regrets seeing this year ride off into the sunset, or preferably be set on fire. However, it is the ...

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From the editor's desk: Social beings
Issue 7 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events
      Welcome to Hi-Tech Security Solutions Issue 7. We have slightly fewer topics in focus in this issue because the bulk of the editorial covers one topic, the Residential Estate Security Conference 2022. ...

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