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The UK’s security industry sector is growing rapidly and surpassing other major players in Europe, a study has revealed, according to the BSIA. The research, commissioned by the European Commission DG Migration and Home Affairs, aimed at developing statistical data that would allow to obtain a clearer picture of the technological and industrial base of […]

Employers are more confident about hiring new staff and growing their workforce this year, figures published in the latest BDO Business Trends Report suggest. The report argues that the two past months’ strong employment data means company’s hiring intentions are now “sky high”. This feeling is strengthened by the fact these levels are now stronger […]

The global access control and authentication market is set to grow at an estimated CAGR of 15.3% from 2014 to 2020, reaching an estimated US$ 49,890.3 mn by the end of the forecast period, a recent report from Transparency Market Research has been able to reveal. In the coming years, increase in security budgets for […]

The British Security Industry Association (BSIA) is the trade association for the British security industry, representing the members on European and British legislation matters. Over 500 members are responsible for more than 70% of UK security business. And now, the BSIA has announced the creation of two new sections of membership, which aim to better […]

Improving building site security is something every company in the construction sector should seriously consider following the Hatton Garden incident, where robbers apparently used two diamond tipped drills stolen from a building site in the City of London last year, according to police sources. Drills that were identical to the model used in the Hatton […]

A fully-featured remote workers module running on a smartphone can help employees spend less time in the office while improving their overall productivity and achieving a very good balance between their working and personal lives. A recent survey of 2000 UK employees carried out on behalf of Microsoft Lumia has revealed that, despite nearly a third […]

A Dubai bank has decided to bolster its security by commissioning vaults employing biometric access control, a specialist news source has revealed. The new vaults to be installed at the Dubai Islamic Bank feature advanced fire detection and suppression systems, external and internal CCTV monitors, and digitization capabilities, in addition to the aforementioned biometric security […]

Two Chinese universities, Henan University of Technology in Henan province and Minjiang University in Fujian province, have adopted facial recognition technology as the method of choice for monitoring student attendance and preventing students from registering other classmates on their behalf, a news report has been able to reveal. After Henan University of Technology’s School of […]

UK organisations consistently show they are more likely to implement workforce management technology, such as absence and leave management or analytics compared to international counterparts, new research conducted by the Aberdeen Group has been able to reveal. The results of the Aberdeen Group report, Productivity: Managing and Measuring a Workforce (January 2015) confirm that organisations […]

The ability to control access to a school’s premises and to thoroughly monitor whoever goes in or out should be a top priority in terms of school security, experts in this field have argued. School administrators are starting to realize the fact that campus security begins at the main entrance, because, without proper control of […]

Ensuring a very good level of security for all festival goers is a must for any event organizers, and Tensor’s Rapid Deployment Asset Protection System (RDAPS) is the perfect tool for the job, even for those areas where access to electricity is not readily available. This will also apply to the “unplugged” weekend put together […]

Biometric time and attendance systems can deliver irrefutable proof of attendance, but they can also create some level of controversy when the underlying technologies are not explained transparently enough during training and privacy-related concerns are not addressed in due time. This sort of situation has recently occurred in San Francisco, the United States, where city […]