June 2015.I , An approach to home security

An approach to home security

Security is an important part of your life. You, your family and business are in need of some kind of basic security. Especially at home you are in need of security. Without it, you and your family will not live and sleep as comfortable as you should be.

To create the security you need at your home you can do some simple things. The most important condition for security is awareness. Where ever you are, at home, at work, travelling. You and your family should be aware of the environment around you. Be aware where you are, what is around you, who you’re going to meet and how you can get away. This is in general, the basic idea about security. Everything else is more or less supporting your security. Mostly with the use of technical means.

Home Security

To be secure and safe in your home, you ideally do, or have done, some research about the geographic area where you’re going to live and/or where you’re living. The neighborhood is an important element as it will tell you were the dangers, potential threats will come from and what, level of, actions are necessary to maintain/improve your security. In what kind of community you’re living, buy or rent, house or appartement, upper class or working class, gated community or ghetto. How often does your living area turn up in police reports or even local news.

Where you live will determine what you have to do. Living in an appartement or a single house on a plot of land. Will demand a different kind of approach, entry, into security.

To be more secure we will build several layers of defence around your home. This will make it any trespasser more difficult to enter your property. We don’t want any trespasser to enter your property so we will make it difficult to enter. We will create obstacles to change his mind about entering your property.

There are five layers to overcome before any trespasser can make it to the inside to his or her thing, e.g. become a imminent threat to you and your family.

The first layer: perimeter defence;

the second layer: ironware;

the third layer: electronic security;

the fourth layer: safe room;

the fifth layer: essentially a catch all layer, awareness.

Perimeter defence

If you don’t live in appartement or gated community and have a single home on a plot of land you will need some kind of fence and automatic gates as the first obstacle to deter trespassers.

The area between the fence and the house should be observable and shouldn’t give any illegal entrants the opportunity to hide themselves. But it should also give you privacy and give bypassers little opportunity to have a good view at your property. Anything what they don’t see wil not attract them to come inside. With the use of landscaping and gardening you can do a lot to achieve it.

Ironware

The fence, gates, doors and windows should be of good quality as should the locks on it. A lock is for a professional burglar nothing more than an 1 to 5 minute delay. It’s never the less an obstacle which could stop a trespasser, make it more difficult and most important create noises which could set of an alarm, security, system. Or attract attention from who ever might hear it.

Hard wooden, solid, doors or even steel doors will make it more difficult to break it down. Glass has to be double-pane or even security kind of glass.

Electronic security system

Were as perimeter defence and ironware will make it more difficult to enter, electronic alarm, security, systems will give a warning if somebody is entering but it will also work as a warning to enter. Most burglars will choose an other object to enter if they’ve knowledge about a security system.

The main advantages about electronic security is:

– it will work 24/7;

– it will report if something is going on;

– it will call emergency services;

– and you get the help which is needed.

Indoor electronic security system work with passive infra-red and movement sensors and glassbreak sensors. Or a combination of both. This depends on if you have animals or if you want to have an alarmsystem operating and still have the ability to walk around in the house. Most systems also have a fire-detection system, an emergency button and electrical current control function coupled to the system.

Outdoor electronic security systems also exist and can be used. They register any contact with the fence or if somebody crosses certain areas. They can be used in combination with a CCTV system to check if the alarm is genuine.

An electronic security system can be a stand-alone system, just giving a sound and/or light alarm. It can be connected to your mobile phone and will send you a sms tekst message what is happening. And you even can connect it with a CCTV system. This will show you what is happening at your property. You can then contact the police or fire department.

It’s ofcourse better if your electronic alarm system is connected with a professional alarm centre, emergency room. They will monitor your alarm system, send someone over to check the situation and/or contact the necessary emergency services.

Safe room

If your property, house, is entered by burglars, criminals, and the police isn’t be able to respons that quickly you can build for this occasion a safe room in your house. This room is constructed with extra strong walls and an armored door. Inside there are communicaton equipment and enough food and beverages to wait for the police to come and rescue you and your family.

Awareness

The most important element of security is awareness. Be aware where you live, who is around you, who is passing by. Try to get as much information as possible about the environment around you. With this information you can find out if there is a potential threat around which might harm you and your family. Plan for incidents and what to do if they might happen.

Make sure the gates and doors are locked and the electronic security system is switched on. Be aware to change your behavior. Try not to do everything everyday the same. Patterns are great for criminals and for security services for that matter.

Awareness will take care that you’re prepared for most incidents which might happen. And if you’re prepared you will be better able to confront the problem and eliminate it.

Conclusion

Security is a choice, you can do more than expected. It depends where you live and what you can afford or want to invest for your security. But even for an average house, there is a electronic alarm system available with an alarm centre for a very reasonable price. For example, in the Netherlands is the security provider Securitas offering such a (professional) home security system.

And be aware is possible for everybody, it is a mindset. You can train yourself to be more aware of the world, people, around you. You can do your own risk analysis about your environment and what can be done to maintain/increase your security.

What you need to improve your security is a matter of analysis. You can do it yourself. Or we can do it for you. Decide what level of security is necessary for you and your familiy. What equipment and systems are needed. And what additional training you and your family need to be secure.

Especially for larger properties, economical/political important families and security interested people a professional analysis might be useful.

IN-SE Services

Who we are

IN-SE Services is “the” service provider for companies, organizations and people. It’s our target to make your life better and easier. So you can do other more important things or that these, processes, will do better.

We started to protect and secure your life and business. IN-SE Services can and will deliver much more services to help you and your business.

IN-SE can be associated with the translation of “in se” out of Latin: yourself, at yourself, “an sich”. IN-SE Services wants to deliver the support which is needed and which increases the efficiency and efficacy. Every process, case, or problem can respectivily only be improved or solved by doing it yourself. IN-SE Service wants to help you do it.

IN-SE Services can arrange that business processes are dealt with and wants to optimize them. IN-SE Services can improve the structure which will lead to better cooperation/communication. IN-SE Services can help people to get their live on order. And at last, but not least, IN-SE Services can arrange that you can live, work and invest safe and secure. Our core business: Intelligence and Security.

IN-SE Services doesn’t only deliver research and consultant services but we will take care that it will work, we actually get our hands dirty to make it work. Only if it works as advertized we all can be satisfied.

Businesses and organizations have often complex structures and relations, internally and externally. Departments and staff have to communicate/cooperate to deliver the best return. To achieve that, there has to be a constant development of the product and service which is offered by the company and/or organization. IN-SE Services wants to support you and your business to initiate, guide and evaluate the development of the product and service which is offered by your company or organization.

Research, development and the discovery of new markets, national and international, belong to the curricula of every business or organization. IN-SE Services can support you to become and remain marketleader. Innovation by superior research and to increase your marketshare by creative policy. With the services of IN-SE Services you, your business and investments can excel.

IN-SE Services also means Intelligence – Security Services, but can, as stated before, also be associated with the Latin translation of “in se”: yourself, at yourself, “an sich”. Security can only be achieved by doing it yourself, work on it, create your own security. And we from IN-SE Services can be at your service achieving it.

We from IN-SE Services have a lot of experience with security, conflict management and the trade of war. We want to use this experience to introduce a new standard for security. Security has to be possible for everybody, anytime and anywhere.

Security is at least for 50% based on knowledge; information of the area and (potential) threats and on prudent behavior. A secure situation can only exist if the “knowledge” part is correctly dealt with. Because without information about the area and (potential) threats every security measure will be largely symbolic and useless.

We can teach you how to execute the “knowledge” part of security or do it for you or your organization.

We’re specialized in executing services which will create a secure situation, that it will remain secure and that it will improve, get even better. To be able to do this, we offer the following services:

– evaluation/research of the current security-, threat level;

– advice how to create a secure environment and how to maintain it;

– guidance to achieve security (with who, by who, which process);

– research into the security and safety of countries, areas of investment/locations/sales;

– controlling and evaluation of security measures;

– lectures and workshops about security and geo-political developments.

Considering the importance and scope of security, our services are very important for everybody, anywhere. For example:

– consumer: individual- and home security and anti-kidnapping measures;

– business: individual- and property security, ICT & IP security, security of all kind of investment opportunities and lectures / research & consultant services regarding security and geo-political developments;

– government: individual-, property security, ICT security and lectures / research & consultant services regarding security and geo-political developments;

– organizations/schools/interest groups: property security and lectures regarding security and geo-political developments.

Security is a basic necessity and therefore necessary for life, work and investments. Every human being, company and/or organization need a minimum level of security. Without that a human can’t survive, a company/organization not exist and are investments not viable.

Security can be achieved and maintained in several ways. But it isn’t easy and simple to get it and certainly not to keep it.

Security needs research, evaluation and adaption. And to take care that security will remain good and up to date it will need to be continuously maintained.

We can maintain this process for you and your company and take care that a minimum level of security is assured.

Security has to be good on the following levels:

– fysical security;

– property security;

– Intellectual Property security;

– security for your investments;

– business, real-estate, security;

– IP/IT security.

Security will be achieved by observing all threats to security. All threats need to be detected. Threats, direct/indirect/potential/latent, have to be identified to avoid, neutralize or eliminate them.

Security is like a living creature, it has to be continuously evaluated and adapted to avoid any unwished developments. Wait until a real or virtual trespasser is inside isn’t an option. Every trespasser has to be immediately detected and indentified to take care that:

– he/she changes his/her mind about to enter;

– will be prevented to enter;

– will be a.s.a.p. removed if entered.

This cycle has to be continuously evaluated to see if any improvements are possible. The security process shouldn’t only be active, adapt and anticipate on changing circumstances but also be on 24/7 alert.

Routine, boredom and not perfectly executing security processes are the second danger to maintain security. In 99% of the day, nothing will happen and that 7 days a week, 365 days a year.

The security process has to be controlled, evaluated and adapted to be effective.

We from IN-SE Services can help you and your company achieve and maintain the necessary security. And/or help improve the security awareness, business-, management processes and operations of yourself, your staff, business or organization.

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