Securing your packets April 2012, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the April issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions. At the time of writing, nearly 25% of the year is already gone and it feels like we only started a couple of weeks ago. We have a jam-packed issue ...
Read more...Storage, management, guarding March 2012, Technews Publishing, News & Events Welcome to the March issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions. In this issue we run our annual DVR/NVR review (a little earlier in the year than usual) and it seems there is still a lot of competition out ...
Read more...Norbain converges, HSS gets more social February 2012, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events By the time you read this Norbain SA will have announced it has a new MD, Jan de Lange. We will be trying to get some time with him and the Norbain Group CEO this month to bring you some insights into ...
Read more...PSIRA responds to SIA action November 2011, News & Events Hot on the heels of the Security Industry Alliance (SIA) announcement that it will take legal action against the Private Security Industry Regulatory Authority (PSIRA) concerning its fee increases, PSIRA ...
Read more...SIA takes PSIRA to court November 2011, News & Events Steve Conradie, CEO of the Security Industry Alliance (SIA), released a statement Thursday morning, 1 December, notifying the industry of SIA’s intent to apply to the High Court to stop the exorbitant ...
Read more...Social media and social manipulation November 2011, Technews Publishing, News & Events You may not have won the lottery, but you still win because the November issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions has been bundled with our Access Identity Management Handbook 2012. The handbook is a comprehensive ...
Read more...Give your pixels a job description October 2011, Technews Publishing, News & Events Following on last month’s comment on gigapixel, Niall Beazley from Vision Catcher replied with the following (the e-mail has been shortened):
“I smiled when I saw your editorial comment on the growing ...
Read more...IFSEC SA: Day 2 September 2011, Technews Publishing, News & Events It is amazing how many Android and iPhone apps are appearing on the security scene these days. I think companies should supply a Galaxy Tab to each of their employees, or at least to me in particular.
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Read more...IFSEC SA: Day 1 September 2011, Technews Publishing, Conferences & Events Many people were concerned that moving IFSEC SA from Sandton to the Gallagher Conference Centre in 2011 would be a mistake. Fortunately, the first day of the event has proved quite the opposite and I ...
Read more...Show time September 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events Welcome to the September issue of Hi-Tech Security Solutions. The second half of the year is a hectic one for us. No sooner have we managed to pull off another successful Retail Risk event (see the review ...
Read more...What is your risk profile? August 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events The recent News of the World hacking scandal has taken pride of place on British television shows over the past weeks. The ease with which some people were able to hack into voice mail messages is astounding. ...
Read more...Deja IP all over again July 2011, Technews Publishing (SA Instrumentation & Control), News & Events I had a couple of interesting conversations this month with system integrators that have been working in our market for some time. As these things go, both said the same thing while disagreeing.
On the ...
Read more...Keeping up with technology June 2011, Technews Publishing, News & Events Hi-Tech Security Solutions recently published an article in which Suprema’s biometric algorithm was highlighted as gaining the number one spot by FVC, ‘Suprema fingerprint algorithm ranked top in FVC-onGoing’ ...
Read more...Lest we forget the legalities May 2011, Technews Publishing, News & Events In the last issue we covered a few cool products from SpyCatcher. While the products we mentioned were all fantastic for having fun, we forgot to mention that there could be legal issues with covert surveillance ...
