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The festive season, often dubbed the "Silly Season," brings a wave of chaos that can easily compromise your year-round security vigilance. While you're relaxing, roughly 40% of the year’s break-ins occur during this time, not because criminals are working harder, but because we get lazy. Criminals exploit the festive rush, looking for easy targets like gates left propped open, abandoned visitor logs, and unchecked cameras. To counter this, your access control during holidays

Every festive season, residential estates face a quiet, growing security threat: homeowners are compromising strict biometric access control by leaving their personal phones (and their digital facial profiles) with short-term rental guests for easy gate entry. This shortcut, intended for convenience, leads to a complete loss of traceability, multi-guest 'piggybacking,' and zero accountability in case of an incident.

For Earth Day, we are asking South African businesses to go paperless to help the planet. They point out that paper wastes resources and can be insecure and slow. Digital systems are better for the environment, safer, and can grow with your business. ATG Digital offers digital visitor management to replace paper sign-in books, meaning no more printing or paper waste, and a smaller carbon footprint. Going paperless is faster, safer, and helps the environment.

April in South Africa is a time of well-earned breaks, long weekends, and holiday escapes. With a calendar packed with public holidays,...

Access control ensures secure environments while protecting privacy. Learn how ATG Digital complies with POPIA and safeguards your data.