Business Security Information

As I travel around and see a variety of businesses I always find security solutions that businesses have developed and implemented themselves.  The pictures in this article show one security solution a business implemented after someone broke into their warehouse.  The pictures show the interior view of one of the doors in the warehouse.  If you look closely, you will see that the business basically took some strips of steel and a cabinet handle and made an interior bar-type lock that they engage during non-business hours.  The steel bars are bolted to the door, and when the handle is turned, the steel bars move into openings that someone cut into the door frame.  This secures the door to the door frame.

Recently, I have been at a couple of businesses that had experienced theft or attempted theft of their outside HVAC units.  It appears from their situations that the thieves were motivated by the copper in the HVAC units.  Over the past couple years, copper theft has been an issue for a variety of contractors, home builders and other related businesses.  Last year, I even discussed copper theft issues with a carnival ride manufacturer because they were experiencing thefts of long electrical leads on machines being stored outside in a lot prior to shipment.  With the high price of metals and the down-turn in the economy, the theft of copper and other metals will continue to be a problem for most businesses in the near future.

What is VOIP

As I discussed in my recent “VOIP Phishing Scam” article, VOIP stands for voice over IP or internet protocol.  Basically, all this means is that the you send the phone call over an internal or external network.  An internal network would be your own businesses LAN (local area network) or WAN (wide area network).  To call someone outside your own company using an external network, you would be using the internet.  An example of VOIP that most people would know is Skype or Vonage.    So why do people use VOIP?  Mainly because it is cheaper than the standard telephone network, and you can use your existing high-speed internet connection you are already paying for.  Just like anything in life, though, there are downsides to VOIP, the biggest being security.  That is what I want to spend the rest of this article talking about.