Archive for May, 2010
The Future of Security Cameras
Schools, homes, offices, airports, hotels, and elderly homes—what do these places have in common? They are no longer mere establishments. They have also become Big Brother “houses” after studies showed that owners have already installed different types of cameras within the vicinity. Indeed, as crime rates and the threat of terrorism continue to increase through [...]
Matrix launches – Time-Attendance and Access Control Solution for Businesses
Matrix Comsec launches a comprehensive range of Time-Attendance and Access Control Solution to ensure effective security and higher productivity for any organization. Matrix COSEC is an adaptive, modular, scalable and function-rich Time-Attendance and Access Control solution designed for Small Office Home Office (SOHO), Small and Medium Businesses (SMB), small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and Large [...]
Surveillance Camera Tips for Protecting Your Driveway
The use of Security Cameras at a private residence is becoming more common place. While not a new concept, recent advances in technology, the lowering of the cost of camera hardware, and the increased need for security in many areas due to the bad economy, have spurred this trend to record levels over the past [...]
Pleasant Exchange
Iran has finally managed to get the nuclear swap deal that it has been craving for some time now. It has been much coveted deal for Iran, as this is what it requires for civil nuclear plants. Iran has been looking for partners in this deal for quite some time now. The western countries led [...]
Self Defense: for your personal safety
When we think about self-defense the first thing comes in our mind that we are attacked and in reflex action we are trying to protect ourselves. It may be true in the first place but then collateral effect is that we get into a fight. Self-defense has many facets like protecting own self, protecting the [...]
Things to keep in mind while travelling
Travel is a wide concept. Travel means a wide movement with all the activities from one place to other geographical location for different purposes. It can be for just recreations, or for visiting families or friends or any other personal or professional reason. Travel can be local, within the region, within the country or abroad [...]
U.S. Law Enforcement Officers Killed in 2009
According to preliminary statistics released by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 48 law enforcement officers were feloniously killed in the line of duty during 2009.
Smoke Detectors: key to fire safety
Automation, an integral part the widespread industrialization, encompasses a key concept of Security Systems. Manual is a thing of the past; just a push of a button gets the things done now. Having said that, what exactly is a Security System? An array of sensors, meant to detect and hence prevent an untoward incident –such [...]
Safety of your PC
There are various things that can harm your computer while you are online and cause your system to crash. If your system crashes, you lose all your data. Your computer is exposed to spy wares, hackers and viruses. The various threats such as identity theft can cause serious problems to your computer. The internet is [...]
Somali Pirates
Somali Pirates have been a menace for international shipping since the turn of the 21st century. The Somali pirates have been causing problems around the Gulf of Aden, frequently looting cargo and kidnapping sailors. Most of the world’s trade and transportation takes place through the sea route. Hence the Somali Piracy has had a crippling effect [...]
Why do you need a security system?
Need of security is the basic necessity of any individual. The feeling that you are safe and everything around you is all right is imperative for a peaceful living. But in this unsafe world, when crime, terror and threats are on their peak, how can one attain that sense of security? Here, home security system provides [...]
Security Lighting: a safety measure
Among the various techniques of crime prevention through environmental design, use of security lighting is the most widely used one. Security lighting is included under physical security, and is used as a preventive and corrective measure against intrusions, vandalism, or any other similar criminal activities which may affect any piece of property. The use of security [...]
Flood alarms for your safety
Flood alarms are basically sensors which are placed at critical locations in low places, inside the house or around it, so that they can alert the residents in case any malfunctioning of the water supply or any natural disaster causes water to invade that space. Water and flood damage due to broken pipes, damaged supply [...]
Yellow Sea Mystery
Politicians and security experts have long been calling for a massive revamp of the defense organizations of the country. Something that the entire nation had been calling for after the unexplained sinking of a South Korean naval warship has finally come to pass. South Korean President Lee Myung Bak has announced the renovation of the [...]
Nightmare in Waziristan
North Waziristan has become the epicentre for world terrorism. All the top Taliban leaders are believed to be commanding their troops against the United States and NATO are from here. This is the region where the war will be won or lost. After the United States security forces and their NATO allies started flushing the terrorist [...]