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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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Video analytics in the spotlight
November 2012, Surveillance, Retail (Industry)
What is happening in the world of video analytics? A little while ago analytics was the next big thing that would change the world of surveillance. Then the hype seemed to calm down when people realised the benefits of analytics in real-world environments are not quite what they are in vendors’ labs.
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Reditron redefines the concept of added value
November 2012, News & Events
Following the management buyout of Norbain SA and its rebranding back to the Reditron name, Hi-Tech Security Solutions sat down with Reditron’s CEO, Jan De Lange, to talk about what changes the company has implemented to continue success story in the South African security market.
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Application security
November 2012, Information Security
The latest South African Cyber Threat Barometer for 2012/13 estimates that R2,65 billion was lost to cyber crime in the period from January 2011 to August 2012, with just over R660 million that was not recovered.
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You can bank on this
October 2012, Integrated Solutions, Financial (Industry)
On a global basis, ATM manufacturers are driving development of new technologies to fight crime and fraud but criminals are always one step ahead.
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Who are you really?
October 2012, Security Services & Risk Management
As internal fraud continues to escalate, companies need to look at the source of the problem in a proactive manner. The million-dollar question is whether employee screening and verification is the solution.
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