Covers creating a home security plan, assessing local public safety agencies, planning a budget, alarm systems, home survellience, and protecting a car.
The complete home security guide to locks, alarms, cameras and security systems. This text is designed to provide homeowners with the information they need to protect their family and valuables.
Nothing in the world is more important than the safety and security of your loved ones at home and the protection of your hard-earned assets at your place of work!!! Are you doing enough to keep your family and business safe??? The difference between sleeping safe and losing everything is the RIGHT LOCKING SYSTEM! This book is your personal security expert and will help you choose the most secure lock without having to compromise on stylish design for your spaces. Leading Architectural Hardware Expert. Bansal’s expertise was handed down to him as a family legacy and was fortified by an Engineering Degree. This expertise has been further honed by his 18 years of experience working with leading Architects and Interior Designers across the country.
For the non-technical home and small-office Internet user, this guide teaches "digital commonsense." Readers will learn easy-to-implement, cost-effective ways of protecting their children, finances, privacy, and data.
This book addresses readers who wish to gain an in-depth understanding of Smart Home alarm and safety systems. Detail is provided on six key smart systems that you can use to enhance your family's home security levels, namely smart alarm systems, Smart IP cameras, Smart combo alarm devices, smart access control, smart locks and smart doorbells. In addition to covering the integration of alarm and fire detection systems with your smartphone App, this chapter also deals with adding smart air quality control, water and freeze alert capabilities to your home. This mini ebook includes technical illustrations, examples of how smart homes are helping people, insights from Gerard and details of an awesome monthly giveaway.
Essential Computer Security provides the vast home user and small office computer market with the information they must know in order to understand the risks of computing on the Internet and what they can do to protect themselves.Tony Bradley is the Guide for the About.com site for Internet Network Security. In his role managing the content for a site that has over 600,000 page views per month and a weekly newsletter with 25,000 subscribers, Tony has learned how to talk to people, everyday people, about computer security. Intended for the security illiterate, Essential Computer Security is a source of jargon-less advice everyone needs to operate their computer securely.* Written in easy to understand non-technical language that novices can comprehend* Provides detailed coverage of the essential security subjects that everyone needs to know * Covers just enough information to educate without being overwhelming
Electronic Security Systems is a book written to help the security professional understand the various electronic security functional components and the ways these components interconnect. Providing a holistic approach to solving security issues, this book discusses such topics as integrating electronic functions, developing a system, component philosophy, possible long-term issues, and the culture within a corporation. The book uses a corporate environment as its example; however, the basic issues can be applied to virtually any environment.For a security professional to be effective, he or she needs to understand the electronics as they are integrated into a total security system. Electronic Security Systems allows the professional to do just that, and is an invaluable addition to any security library.* Provides a well-written and concise overview of electronic security systems and their functions* Takes a holistic approach by focusing on the integration of different aspects of electronic security systems* Includes a collection of practical experiences, solutions, and an approach to solving technical problems
This bookdefines more than 900 metrics measuring compliance with current legislation, resiliency of security controls, and return on investment. It explains what needs to be measured, why and how to measure it, and how to tie security and privacy metrics to business goals and objectives. The metrics are scaled by information sensitivity, asset criticality, and risk; aligned to correspond with different lateral and hierarchical functions; designed with flexible measurement boundaries; and can be implemented individually or in combination. The text includes numerous examples and sample reports and stresses a complete assessment by evaluating physical, personnel, IT, and operational security controls.
This valuable lesson in home and business security will help you identify and improve the vulnerable areas of your security alarm system for maximum protection, safety and peace of mind. An eye-opening expose of the whole security business, the book reveals the glaring weaknesses of popular security devices. It also gives plenty of advice for making your system more secure and equips you with the savvy needed to deal with alarm installers, monitoring stations and local law enforcement.
Of urban living, offering the reader a variety of tips and advice on how to be streetwise and overcome everyday problems -- including how to prevent muggings and avoid confrontations, how to unlock your house and car without keys, how to escape a burning building, how to negotiate public transport, road safety measures, and being alert to terrorist activities. Complete with more than 120 black-and-white illustrations that complement the text, this book is the perfect companion to surviving.