In 2020, Watcher Surveillance Solutions was approached by Plantation Farms, a third-generation family farming operation in the south of Boksburg, to provide a farm security solution to assist in reducing crop losses due to theft.

Estate upgrades and enhances its security through a partnership between surveillance specialist Watcher and the incumbent guarding company.

Looking beyond the hype and all the marketing optimism about AI and cloud services in the security market, there are significant benefits to incorporating the two into an estate’s security operation.

Watcher Surveillance Solutions provides an off-site Surveillance Operating Centre (SOC), offering a cloud-based video management system that manages customers’ video feeds using the latest in-video analytics and artificial intelligence.

Organisations need security systems that are reliable, intelligent, efficient and aimed at optimising the guarding component in order to adapt to their environments.

The winners of the 2026 Southern Africa Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs) were announced at a virtual ceremony on 23 June 2026. The winners in seven categories will progress to the third Global OSPAs in 2027.

ISO 27701 include privacy-specific controls and provides a structured way to manage Personally Identifiable Information (PII) throughout its lifecycle, giving organisations a way to demonstrate how privacy is managed.

As cyberattacks grow more targeted, more destructive, and increasingly aimed at the very fabric of trust within the enterprise, the ability to restore identities has become just as critical as restoring data.

Cybersecurity depends on interpretation. A tool can tell you that something unusual has happened, but people need to determine whether it is a genuine risk, the business impact, and how to respond without causing unnecessary disruption.