From the editor's desk: Signs of life? Issue 2 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the latest issue of Hi-Tech Security Solution. The big news in this issue is the Securex Preview which, although smaller than in the past, is still a great (late) start to the year as it means ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: The human factor Residential Security Handbook 2022: SMART Estate Living , Technews Publishing, News & Events In the security world, whether cyber or physical security, we often hear about the risks of ‘the human factor’. It’s common to say that the human factor is the weakest link and this is true. However, ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Coopetition rules Issue 1 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events In this issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions we look at some of the trends the industry is expecting to see in 2022, as well as the issue of a slower supply chain. The two are linked and there doesn’t ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: In the cyber trenches SMART Cybersecurity Handbook 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events Hi-Tech Security Solutions is proud to launch its first Smart Cybersecurity Handbook, a publication aimed at making sense of the complex world of cyber risks.
Read more...From the editor's desk: Who owns you? Access & Identity Management Handbook 2022, Technews Publishing, News & Events
While slavery was abolished many years ago, today we have a different kind of ownership of humans, that being your identity. Social media and software and hardware companies (and other companies we ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: An end and a beginning Issue 8 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the final regular issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions for 2021. In some ways this year has flown by, but in others it has been a never-ending slog. There are few people I know who are sad ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Cyber configuration conundrum Issue 7 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events As Hi-Tech Security Solutions prepares for its first ever handbook dedicated to cybersecurity, I have been surprised at the reason for many of the breaches. I’m using ‘breach’ in a generic sense to include ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Under siege Issue 6 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events It’s not often that an issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions has such a large section devoted to the sector focus as you will find in this issue. We have combined the transport and logistics verticals into ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Security on the side Residential Security Handbook 2021: Secure Living, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the second Residential Security Handbook of 2021. In this issue, named Secure Living, we turn our attention a little more inwards and, as you will see in the pages to follow, place more focus ...
Read more...From the Editor's desk: Bitcoin or Ether? Issue 5 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events Well, the July riots are a thing of the past, except, of course, for the million or so rounds of ammo that are still missing and the R120 million in cash that was stolen (cash, not repairs or new equipment ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: A storm in the cloud Issue 4 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events The latest ransomware attack, named Kaseya after a company that provides a number of tools to customers all over the world, has hit a number of companies ‘downstream. In other words, some of the companies ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Privacy is your responsibility Issue 3 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events We have a look at the Protection of Personal Information Act (PoPIA) in this issue, which is set to become a reality as of 1 July. We didn’t have space for much information, but more on the topic will ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Maybe security should STTFS Issue 2 2021, Technews Publishing, News & Events The IT industry has an acronym, RTFM, Read the Manual; you’ll notice I left the F out. The same can be said for the security industry, but a recent experience has shown me that both industries, even as ...
Read more...From the editor's desk: Who hasn’t been hacked? Residential Security Handbook 2021: SMART Estate Living , Technews Publishing, News & Events Stories of companies being breached and infected with malware and/or ransomware are common these days, with the latest SolarWinds (see the MIT Technology Review article at the short link: www.securitysa.com/*mit1...