IFSEC Insider, formerly IFSEC Global, is the leading online community and news platform for security and fire safety professionals. Choosing fire extinguisher types for the relevant class of fire ...

The Security and Fire Excellence Awards run in partnership with IFSEC and FIREX. First Response Group and ZAM Facilities Management were this year’s headline sponsors. Other partners included Axis ...

Simon Giles (SG): I am strong believer that in business and life in general you need hard work combined with a little bit of luck – both of which lead to my coming into the security industry. My ...

Access control systems have come a long way from the traditional mechanical lock and key. There is greater demand than ever for convenient solutions to enter and exit buildings and facilities from ...

We’ve all heard the term ‘Artificial Intelligence’, or ‘AI’ for short. There is a widespread acceptance that it is set to have a significant impact on the physical security sector in the years to come ...

A tech writer specialising in cybersecurity, working with Redscan on this and a number of other GDPR, MDR, and ethical hacking projects. Starting out as a bit of a practical joke between colleagues ...

Technology changes but the basics remain. There can be little doubt that security has changed over the recent years. We face a radically new threat landscape and huge technology leap realised by the ...

In the second in a series of three articles (read the first one, here), Simon Ince of UL examines what must be done to get firestopping right in new buildings. He offers a step-by-step analysis of the ...

A packed auditorium at the second annual BRE Fire Research Conference recently heard the latest findings from the organisation’s investigations. Architects, engineers, building control officers, fire ...

Loss Prevention Standard, or ‘LPS’, 1175 is one of the many standards published by BRE (Building Research Establishment) Global through the LPCB (Loss Prevention Certification Board), which has been ...

It has been nearly two years since the last State of Physical Access Control Report and much in the world has changed since then. Not least the aftermath of a global pandemic which has, for many of us ...

In new data released by the Home Office on 11 August, statistics show that the vast majority (98%) of confirmed automatic fire alarm incidents are false alarms. The data, which details automatic fire ...