With an ambition to drive continuous collaboration and innovation, Traka has launched two inaugural Experience Centres: one in South Africa and the other in Australia. The South African centre is situated in Johannesburg and will serve as an environment for technology partners, end-users and Traka employees...
Thanks to increasingly stringent fire standards and environmental regulations, the fire protections market is seeing an increase in demand. Frost & Sullivan's recent analysis, Global Fire Protection Coatings Growth Opportunities, estimated that the market is anticipated to grow to $2.74bn in revenue by 2027 up from $1.94bn...
Gallagher has released the latest version of its award-winning site management software, Command Centre, allowing organisations to easily future-proof their security. Command Centre v8.60 offers a number of enhancements that have been built with the future in mind, as well as useful features. These include an...
The Nemesysco service centre in South Africa has appointed Lelani Rautenbach as its new Chief Operating Officer. The company hopes that the appointment will help grow opportunities for its voice analytics technology, as Rautenbach will be tasked with fostering growth and providing strategic vision on how...
Emergency services, security and safety professionals are to benefit from Intersec’s dedicated conference programme. Taking place 16-18 January 2022, Intersec is the leading event for the industry and extensive redevelopment of the show has seen a dynamic conference programme be put in place for visitors to...
A new report from Interpol has identified the most prominent cybersecurity threats in Africa, based on input from its own member countries and data from the private sector. According to the The African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 they are: 1: Online scams 2: Digital extortion 3: Business email...
BCD has hired computer industry veteran Adel Mrabet, as it continues its expansion into new global markets. Mrabet will serve as Regional Sales Manager – Surveillance and IoT for North and West Africa on the MERAT team from his Tunisia base. Mrabet’s 20-year career has included...
With cyber incidents the biggest risk to businesses across the globe, the market for cyber security insurance is set to increase, according to Advance Market Analytics’ Cyber Security Insurance Market Insights, to 2026. Cyber security insurance could help businesses to mitigate their losses should they be...
The Common Smartcard Solutions Association’s (CSSA) standard has been combined with LEGIC mobile technology to extend closed-loop ePayment capability to smartphones. The CSSA goal is to create and promote an industry standard for vendor-neutral, smartcard-based closed-loop ePayment systems. openCashfile (oCF) is that standard, a data structure...
Data exists to predict, and so prevent, crime, it’s just not yet being analysed, according to Warren Myers, CEO and Co-founder of AURA, security and medical response marketplace. But in the near-future AI could be deployed to help fight crime. Said Myers: “There is a wealth...
