Welcome back, and everything of the very best for 2006! February 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events Biometrics. We have heard all about it and it has certainly been a breakthrough in the access control arena, but how easily can fingerprint readers be fooled? I came across an eye-opening article at ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes December 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events Apart from the numerous reports of cash in transit heists, two security-related news stories caught my eye in the weeks leading up to the publication of this issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions...
IOL ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes November 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events Unification is happening, and that would appear to be a good thing for the security industry as a whole.
Security Industry Alliance (SIA) chairman confirmed last month at the announcement of an interim ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes October 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events It does not feel like a year ago that we introduced the Access Control Handbook, does it? Well, it is back this year, and even bigger - as you will see.
11 September marked the fourth anniversary of ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes September 2005, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events This month, Hi-Tech Security Solutions has been around for 10 years so we decided to take a look at some of the main events that have taken place during our 'lifetime'... going through back issues of ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes August 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events Are crooks becoming cleverer, or are we generally becoming more complacent? We had an incident at the Technews offices over the weekend, during which two of the floors of the building were cleaned out, ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes July 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events In the ongoing search for a better, more secure lifestyle, more and more people are considering the option of setting up home in a residential estate, not a cheap way to go by any means, but when one ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes June 2005, Technews Publishing, News & Events Okay, I cheated - I was in such a rush to get this issue to bed before I left for Ifsec that I did not finish writing this column, so now here I sit in the press office at Ifsec and I can give you some ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes May 2005, News & Events Security is a worldwide concern, but clearly to different extents in different areas of the globe - attending the SecuTech Show in Taipei brought this point home to me in no uncertain terms. So there ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes April 2005, News & Events Securex has come and gone, and what a show it was - by all accounts bigger and better than any Securex show before it. Exhibitors seemed happy with the visitors the show drew, and also went out of their ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes February 2005, News & Events A belated happy New Year to all of you, and if your schedule has been as busy as mine, New Year may well be just a distant memory but I hope 2005 has been a good one so far, and that it continues to be ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes November 2004, News & Events Why is it that so much time and money is spent on security?
Is it that crime is that much higher? Do we have that much more to protect? Or do we feel we work so hard for what we have that we merely ...
Read more...Bits 'n Bytes October 2004, News & Events It is all about access control - just in case you had not noticed the bumper issue this month!
And on the subject, the Brits must be reeling - first a campaigner for Fathers 4 Justice managed to evade ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes September 2004, News & Events As I write this, South African sports supporters are revelling in the Olympic Games victory of the men's swimming relay team of Ryk Neethling, Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns and Darian Townsend in the ...