Friday, May 15, 2009

Does Your Security System have a Weak Spot?

Whether you have ADT Security in your home or a more high tech surveillance system in your place of business, it is important to make sure that your security system doesn't have any weak spots — and if it does, to resolve them as quickly as possible.

For instance, I used to hang out at a gas station where a friend of a friend worked. He knew that there was a blind spot in the camera surveillance, so he would always go over there when he wanted to do something he wasn't supposed to — such as open soda or candy he hadn't paid for.

As another example, one family I used to babysit for had a cheap-o security system with little devices that detected when any of the doors were open — but they didn't have any of those devices on the windows, so what good was the system, really?

Of course, there are the other extremes, such as another family I babysat for, who had every single one of their screens on their windows wired so that the alarm would go off if someone cut the screen. It was actually kind of scary how high tech that house was, and you probably don't need to go quite to that extreme, either for your house or your business — but somewhere between the two extremes would be good!

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