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International fame, or is it infamy?
February 2013, News & Events
How sad that the plight of the South African security industry makes it onto CNN in a short programme looking at the challenges the industry faces from its own government. It would be something to crow ...
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Security trends for 2013
January 2013, News & Events
What better way to kickoff the year than to look at what the industry expects to see happening in the coming 12 months? Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked a few people what they were expecting in 2013.
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As safe as houses?
January 2013, News & Events, Residential Estate (Industry)
Is the big security spending reserved for business installations or are residential owners wising up to the benefits of securing their properties? Hi-Tech Security Solutions asked three industry players about current trends in residential security.
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Campus security remains a complex issue
January 2013, Integrated Solutions, Education (Industry)
The Campus Protection Society of South Africa (Camprosa) held its annual conference at Sun City late last year to discuss the various issues universities are facing, including presentations on security as well as other pertinent campus topics.
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Register as an electric fence system installer
January 2013, News & Events
New amendments to the Occupational Health and Safety Act that will come into effect in 2013 require all people and companies that work with electric fences to be registered with the Department of Labour.
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Back to school
January 2013, Integrated Solutions, Education (Industry)
The landscape of educational security installations has changed from just addressing general risk issues to the need for a totally integrated solution for campus environments.
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That thing that used to be called privacy
January 2013, News & Events
The worst offenders are not the social media sites that collect all your information, but those individuals who fill out whatever information the screen in front of them asks for without thinking, and then continue to update the site with details of every aspect of their lives.
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Convergence is now
November 2012, Integrated Solutions, Financial (Industry)
Hi-Tech Security Solutions held a round table in which we invited a few industry experts to talk about the move to converged systems. The round table primarily looked at convergence with respect to the move to IP, but also touched on some other related topics.
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Assets on track
November 2012, Asset Management, Transport (Industry)
Do you know where your company’s assets are at any given time? More to the point, do you know where they are once criminals have removed them from your chosen mode of transportation? Asset tracking and asset recovery are not to be confused.
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Keeping data safe and accessible
November 2012, Security Services & Risk Management
Best practices for backups and archiving of paper and electronic data. One cannot rely on a weekly backup to a USB or tape. It is not a case of if this system will fail or break, but when.
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