Fire follows four stages – ignition, growth, fully developed, and decay (burnout). In order to ensure that a fire does not progress beyond the first stage, adequate detection and suppression technology needs to be in place.

A comprehensive risk analysis is the first step towards coming up with a solution that is viable and will achieve the desired results. When one is aware of the why and how the challenge is coming, a ...

Our homes are usually ignored and left to chance when it comes to fire protection. This is due to ignorance and lack of legislation concerning fire protection in private homes that are not in complexes. ...

The SMART Security Summit 2026, to be hosted by SMART Security Solutions at the Indaba Conference Centre in Fourways on 10 September 2026, will deliver a roadmap from reactive survival to structured resilience.

SMARTpod talks to Fred Streefland, Global Field CISO for EMEA at Check Point Software Technologies, about framing modern cyber defence around adaptability, rapid decision-making, and the OODA loop adapted for cybersecurity.

Between doomscrolling, rapid-fire Slack notifications, and algorithmic video feeds, the average employee is trapped in an aggressive, highly engineered dopamine loop that automatically shuts down in traditional training situations.

The global cybersecurity landscape is approaching a turning point as quantum computing accelerates faster than most organisations realise; the shift is not a distant, theoretical concern, but a present-day business risk that demands immediate action.

Industrial organisations now rely on interconnected systems, remote access, cloud-based analytics, and unified IT and OT environments to maintain production. Fortinet’s 2026 State of OT and Cybersecurity Report illustrates why visibility, segmentation, and integrated security are essential.

Buildings may be getting smarter, but too many control rooms are still anchored to yesterday’s technology, such as on-site servers, rigid architectures and a patchwork of interfaces that are expensive to run and slow to evolve.