Drone Guards is moving into an untapped market of using drones to secure residential estates and other high-value assets such as mines, farms and commercial properties.

Drone Guards provides that eye in the sky by using the latest technology in the unmanned aerial surveillance space in co-operation with an estate’s existing security personnel on the ground.

Aerial Surveillance technology is one of the most effective ways of protecting people and property. Drone Guards is part of the UAV Aerial Works group of companies and is licenced, insured, and approved ...

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.

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.

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.