By Mark Mahaffey


As a business owner, your hands are full no doubt. You have employees to manage, customers to see to, product to stock, maintenance issues to attend to and marketing strategies to manage. One of the dangers you face is allowing all these things to take precedence over security.

Security is one of those things that is easy to neglect. But waiting until an emergency happens is not a good idea. It would be a shame to neglect the security of your business until it is too late to fully recover from a security breach. Keep in mind that breaches of security do not always come strangers; they can also come from people whom you trust: your own employees.

For this reason, the security of your business should be a priority. If you do not already have electronic security access installed in your business, you should do so immediately. This type of technology is a great way to restrict access to certain parts of your building only to those people who have been provided with a key card that the computer recognizes.

Silent alarms are also a way to upgrade the security in your business. A silent alarm works by alerting the monitoring service which oversees your alarm system. The benefit of a silent alarm over an audible alarm is that the perpetrator does not know that his presence has been detected. Therefore, the police can arrive and actually catch him.

You probably have several places inside your business where a silent alarm would be beneficial. Do you have a back room where a safe containing money is kept? Put an alarm on the safe itself and maybe even on the door leading into that room!

There may be other areas inside your business where silent alarms will be useful. Perhaps you have expensive office equipment stored in a closet that is off limits to your employees. Place a silent alarm on the door!




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