ISCSA - Independent Security Consultant South Africa

12/07/2026

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuKWSV6D4pw

Most people think physical security is about CCTV cameras, alarms, ...

13/01/2025

https://alwinco.co.za/2025/01/13/alwinco-newsletter-edition-5-independent-security-risk-assessor/

03/10/2024

Do you agree that taking action after a crime has already occurred is too late?

Unfortunately, crime is not a very pleasant topic and is therefore generally avoided by most. Although, being South Africans, we do mostly tend to joke about such things around the water cooler rather than take it too seriously. This results in the true value of security not being fully realised. It...

02/10/2024

Check out the article, Bang for your security buck(s), on the Smart Security Solutions website!

Most estates have had the experience of having a risk assessment done only to find they have no way of meeting all the advised risk mitigation processes because of the costs involved in doing everything as well as the complexity of a well-designed security solution. Of course, the costs and complexi...

01/10/2024

Retail security needs collaboration among landlords, agents, tenants, and security firms. Clear roles and regular risk assessments are key.

Just who is responsible for retail and shopping mall security? Is it the landlord, managing agents/facility managers, shopping centre management, tenants, business owners or the deployed security company. Is it one of them or a combination of all of them?

26/09/2024

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I want to tell you a story about why an independent security risk assessment is different from a risk assessment done by a security provider.

25/09/2024

A heart transplant in 20 minutes?

In today’s life, the first problem with the current form of security, in general, is that the clients, especially corporate clients, force the risk assessor to complete the work in a very short timeframe.

23/09/2024

Using the Matrix system for Security Risk Assessment can leave a 20% chance of crime. Which 20% of your employees are you willing to risk?

If you want to distinguish between acceptable risk and unacceptable risk, perhaps you need to consider what security means to you. Health & Safety has taught us that there is an ‘acceptable risk’, and while that may be true in the Health & Safety world, it is most definitely not true in the secu...

20/09/2024

A comprehensive security risk assessment

Security risk assessment, this is a term that is not really understood by people in the private or corporate sectors. You need to understand this term before you will grasp the full scope of a security risk assessment. The risk assessment is that little bit extra that you do in order to find out wha...