A recent piece from Urban Protection Group on strata building security risks is a useful reminder for NSW property managers and owners corporations: the biggest vulnerabilities in apartment buildings and mixed-use strata schemes are rarely dramatic break-ins. They are the…
A recent Privacy Commissioner determination against a major Australian retailer — and the subsequent updated OAIC guidance on facial recognition technology (FRT) — has significant implications for any organisation using CCTV systems with facial recognition or analytics capability. For facilities…
When One Badge Failure Becomes Five: Understanding the Access Control Fault Hierarchy It starts with a single complaint — a staff member whose credential stopped working at 7 AM. By the time you investigate, three other readers are flagging errors,…
A strata committee cannot unilaterally install CCTV on common property A question recently published on Lookup Strata has put a sharp spotlight on a compliance issue that surfaces regularly in NSW strata schemes: a strata committee arranging the installation of…
NSW strata law is continuing its staged reform program in 2026, and the changes now in force carry real administrative and financial implications for strata committees, owners corporations, building managers, and the facilities professionals who support them. If your building…
The intercom at a strata building’s front door is easy to overlook — it buzzes, it opens the door, and most of the time nobody thinks about it again. But for property managers and body corporate committees running multiple sites,…
If your club or pub operates gaming machines in NSW, the compliance landscape has shifted materially. The mandatory Digital Incident Register (DIR), reinforced Gaming Plan of Management requirements, and the intersection of state and federal obligations under AML/CTF mean that…
ISCS has outlined the product lineup it will present at SecTech NZ in June 2026, with a portfolio centred on edge video architecture, long-range vehicle access and modern credential technologies. The selection spans Milesight, Network Optix, Nedap and HID Global…
Australian small and medium-sized businesses are using AI tools more widely than ever — but new industry data suggests most have yet to move beyond surface-level experimentation into genuine workflow transformation. For facilities managers and IT managers overseeing complex built…
Five Vulnerabilities Found in Hanwha Vision QNV-C8012 and Wisenet Device Manager Nozomi Networks Labs has published research disclosing five medium-severity vulnerabilities in the Hanwha Vision QNV-C8012 network camera (firmware v2.22.00_20240909_R188) and the Wisenet Device Manager (WDM) Windows application (v2.9.2.0). The…