Security Tips

	Residential Tips:
	Make sure that your home is protected with locking devices suitable for your needs.
	Ensure that your doors a strongly protected by a good quality deadbolt. When buying a deadbolt from our company, or anywhere else for that matter, you really get whatyou pay for. Ensure that the windows are also protected with window locking devices. Make sure that your homes surroundings do not hide areas of the home susceptible to a break-in with shrubbery etc. Have a Monitored Security System installed in your home that will allow you to use it by Day and by Night. Make sure the installed equipment is not all lumped together on a single zone so that the Monitoring Station can identify the exact point of violation. Install at least one smoke detector connected to your Security System. Even when you are not at home, the Monitoring Station will be able to notify the Fire Department in case a Fire breaks out. Ask about Backup Services in your area in case your phone line fails. alk to your neighbors and develop relationships with people that you can trust to check your home while you are away.
	Commercial Tips:
	Design, Structure and Placement of your security hardware and sensing devices are  KEY to a successful plan of protection for you business.
	Ensure that the hardware you choose is of commercial grade.Many people purchase residential grade hardware for their businesses and find out later that the hardware does stand up.Again, you really get what you pay for. For Key Control purposes, look at “High Security Locks” to ensure that only the keys that have been given to an authorized user are in fact the keys that are in circulation. In areas where a propensity to Smash & Grad exists, ensure that your storefront is protected with Security Bars or protective Window Film. Install a Security System with a commercial grade control panel.Ensure that and adequate number of motion sensors and audio detectors along with door and windows contacts are used. Make sure the installed security system peripheral equipment is not all lumped together on a single zone so that the Monitoring Station can identify the exact point of violation. Ask about Backup Services in your area in case your phone line fails Consider the installation of a Video Surveillance System as a visible deterrent. Ensure that a proper and concise list of responders to an alarm is created in case of any alarm activity.