Posted by admin on Apr 6th
Most people are still concerned that they could become the victim of crime. In spite the fact that official figures suggest that there is less reason to be afraid than in the past, this does not satisfy everyone. While crime statistics may appear to show that overall crime is decreasing, burglary and housebreaking are still a major concern. Recent security sales suggest that most householders have become more careful about home security.
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One way of keeping your most precious possessions and documents secure is to put them in a safe. There are various kinds of domestic safes on the market, many with an electronic locking system. Home safes have been around for a long time but they have evolved over the years and many have sophisticated digital and electronic locking systems. Electronic safes have various locking systems and some of them are even secured against key loss or theft.
The security of your home safe is often measured by where it is kept. If it is on the floor in the spare room or attached to a wall but in full view, then it is not as secure as a safe that has been installed under the floor. When burglars think they have some time to spare then they may easily discover hidden wall safes, so you need to take care that the locking system is secure.
Many security safes are cash graded, that is to say their security is graded for insurance purposes, the more secure your safe is deemed to be then it will be graded higher and you are more likely to get your cash back.
The cash rating of your safe depends on a number of points including the robustness of the safe itself, its position and likelihood of discovery and its internal locking system. Not all electronic safes are as secure as you imagine them to be, often because the body and door of the safe are not considered sufficiently robust or because the safe is too easy to remove from its position. Generally speaking the greater the cash rating of your safe then the more secure it is likely to be.
Security safes are designed to prevent a burglar or thief getting their hands on your cash and your valuables, however not all electronic safes are as secure as you might wish. Safes that are opened with a key card rather than a key or a combination are more likely to be a security risk as the cards, just like many other electronic cards, are all too easy to duplicate. A better option is an electronic safe that uses biometric fingerprint recognition for the safe to be opened. This is virtually burglar proof because the safe requires your fingerprint to gain access.
If you can afford it then probably the best and most secure option is a wall vault or safe that is built into a wall in your home and which also requires biometric fingerprinting to access it. One of these high protection security safes are so secure that it is virtually impossible for an intruder to access your valuables.
Article Source: http://www.articlesbase.com/home-improvement-articles/how-secure-are-electronic-safes-622944.html
Author: Derek Rogers
About the Author:
Derek Rogers is a freelance writer who writes for a number of UK businesses. For Security Safes, he recommends Safe Security Services.
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Posted by admin on Mar 28th
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Digital Electronic Safe for Home or Business - 1000 Cubic-Inches Interior Space
The idea of a wall safe has been firmly rooted in most people’s minds for years now as an item that fits into the wall, with a dial on the front of it which turns and clicks into place where necessary to read the combination. The idea of a safecracker is firmly linked to this concept, where someone turns the dial around until they hear a click, and continues this method until they have found the digits required. It was this (relative) ease of breaking the code that caused a major change in the way safes work.
The electronic wall safe works by means of a Personal Identification Number system (PIN). Much like any ATM system, it requires the entry of a numerical code (usually four digits in length which should be just about impossible to guess. For this reason combinations like birth dates, wedding anniversaries and significant years should be avoided when picking a PIN. In order to make the number impossible to guess, it is important to keep changing it but keep it “irrelevant” – using dates that have some major significance will make it easy for people who know things about you to guess.
If you keep the PIN as something abstract, unconnected to any dates of immediate and obvious significance, there is a less than 1 in 1 million chance of anyone guessing it. Some would say if they can manage those odds, they deserve whatever is in the safe. Now, while that may be going a little bit far, you should keep in mind that making it harder to guess is what will make the safe worth what you paid.
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Posted by admin on Mar 23rd
There are as many ways to crack safes as there are different ways to make them “uncrackable” – but if you want to make it impossible for anyone you don’t trust to get at the valuables that you keep within your home or business premises, then a biometric safe is as close as you will get to being completely safe from unforeseen resourceful criminals.
Biometric data is being used far and wide at the moment to differentiate between people for the purposes of security. ID cards and passports of the future are widely expected to contain an element of biometric data in order to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that the holder of the documentation is the person whose details are on the card.
Popular biometric wall safes are:-
Wall Vault - Biometric (Stainless Steel) (4.75"l x 16.5"w x 15.5"h)
New Biometric Wall Safe Fingerprint Safe Home Security Office
Securelogic Wall Vault - Biometric
While there are still issues to sort out as to whether that is a legal, and morally sound, method of using such data, using it in a way that protects the individual and their property from criminal intent is open to no such debate.
The advantage of using biometric data as a way of identifying people is simple. By using such data – most commonly a fingerprint – the individual is proving beyond all doubt that they are the person to whom the items in the safe belong, or at least are trusted enough by that person to give them access to the safe. This presents a major challenge, then, to even the most resourceful safe cracker. Working out a combination is one thing, but changing your fingerprint is still beyond even the best scientists.
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Posted by admin on Mar 13th
One of the most common ways of security protecting something is to give it a digital PIN or combination. Think about it – your card for the bank ATM has a PIN. Your cell phone, in all likelihood, asks for a PIN every time you switch it back on. Very often, channels on the TV that kids should not be watching are locked out with a PIN. Along with computer passwords, the Personal Identification Number is one thing that is always protected with almost insane secrecy.
If you use a PIN to protect anything in your possession, there are some basic rules to which you will absolutely need to stick. For example, you should never use the digits from your date of birth. If you were born, for example, on Christmas Day, using 2512 as your PIN is exactly what thieves will expect from you. As much as you may think it is a clever double bluff, remember that frequently the outcome of a double bluff is that the “bluffs” cancel one another out, leaving simply a very obvious answer.
Change your PIN regularly. Have some way of remembering it without writing it down, but crucially it should be something only you will be able to identify. A favored word rendered in digits corresponding to a telephone keypad is one possibility. The shirt numbers of two preferred sports players combined may also work for a four-digit PIN. Keeping the PIN safely in your mind and never writing it down lessens the chance of anyone happening upon it. Trying a clever way of noting it down in code is also a bad idea. There may be a tiny chance at best of anyone working it out, but if it lives inside your head and only there, there is NO chance.
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Posted by admin on Mar 8th
If you have items of sentimental or commercial value that you absolutely have to keep under lock and key, one excellent way of doing so is to purchase a wall safe. There are many different ways of keeping what is in a wall safe secure, and the reliability of these different ways is variable. Owning a wall safe is a popular manner of protecting your valuables because it allows you to keep the goods that you value most somewhere safe, where only you know their exact location and only you know how exactly to get to them.
One way of protecting the contents of a safe is with an electronic PIN code. A PIN is a user generated sequence of digits, and if they are chosen wisely they will be all but impossible to guess – in fact, the chances of guessing a four-digit PIN without having clues to it will be lower than one in a million. To make the chances even less it is worth regularly changing the code – taking care not to base it on anything obvious, as this will make it easier for people who know any of your details.
An electronic wall safe is as good a place as any to keep your valuables, but to make it as useful as possible for the purpose for which it was intended, you need to make sure you use it correctly. This means not writing the PIN down, not changing it to anything easily guessable, and not telling anybody anything about it.
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