Editor's note May 2007, Technews Publishing, News & Events Can you believe how this year has flown? Here we are with the May issue already, winter is putting in an appearance and Securex is just around the corner!
This issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions takes ...
Read more...Editor's note April 2007, Technews Publishing, News & Events Do you remember going to shopping centres some 15 years ago and having to put whatever you were carrying through the ‘Beady Eye’ at the entrances and having the contents of your bag poked at with a little ...
Read more...Editor's note March 2007, Technews Publishing, News & Events We read about it often - corruption in the police force, traffic officers taking bribes, baggage handlers at airports going through passengers' luggage... who can we trust?
According to a story in the ...
Read more...Editor's note February 2007, Technews Publishing, News & Events Ever the optimist, some may say, but I have never been shy to admit that I am ′proudly South African′, I am sure that we WILL stage a successful soccer World Cup in 2010 and I DO know that crime is alive ...
Read more...Editor's note December 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events For our security in government feature we are running this month, I had the opportunity to go into the centre of Johannesburg for the first time in years. And I have to stress how impressed I was! Many ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes November 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events As we head towards the end of the year, we are once again hearing of increasing numbers of cash-in-transit heists taking place. And in September it was revealed that CIT heists were the fastest-rising ...
Read more...Editor's note October 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events As I write this, the world (well, a large portion of the population anyway) is remembering the fifth anniversary of 9/11. Airport security certainly increased after that specific 2001 event and after ...
Read more...Editor's note August 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events Well, life at our house is now back to normal following the soccer World Cup, but I have to admit that all through it my mind was thinking four years ahead, trying to answer what the world is collectively ...
Read more...Editor's note September 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events You all know how vehemently proudly South African I am, and this month we decided to let local manufacturers have their say on the matter too. And what an impressive display of locally manufactured - ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes July 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events Our main feature this month is on security in the education sector and having a 10-year-old daughter, it is a subject very close to my heart! I was shocked to hear my fiancé's daughters and their friends ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes June 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events, Residential Estate (Industry) Access control, as we have covered extensively in Hi-Tech Security Solutions and particularly in the annual Access Control Handbook, is becoming an increasingly more important part of our daily lives. ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes May 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events Call me paranoid, but I do not feel very safe with all the striking going on in the security industry - not so much because I pay a monthly fee to be able to get help if I should need it, but more because ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes April 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events As I write this, it has been a bad week for Jozi from a safety and security point of view. The two major incidents were an armed robbery at the Johannesburg International Airport, then there was the horrific ...
Read more...Bits 'n bytes March 2006, Technews Publishing, News & Events I am doing the proudly South African thing again. In two of our stories this month - `Siemens Security Summit' and `Access control from an electrical engineer's perspective' - mention is made of South ...