During the long winter months in Canada, the sun sets sooner and stays darker longer as opposed to the amount of daylight in the summer months. This presents an extra challenge as it relates to keeping your family, home and property safe from potential intruders who may attempt to take advantage of the extra cover of darkness that winter brings.

When criminals canvas a neighborhood in search of suitable homes to burgle, it’s an unfortunate reality that they tend to focus on properties that they might see as easy targets…and sometimes these targets include the elderly.

When it comes to getting the right home security system, you will need different components to get the level of protection that you want. One of the things you’ll need to mull over when you look at your smart security options is whether to go the wifi route or the closed network security front. Read on for a look at the difference between the two so that you can make an informed decision.

When it comes to hiding your stuff so that it doesn’t fall into the hands of criminals, it does help to try to think like like a thief...if only to be able to determine where they might look if they were to break in and look for stuff to steal. So, you’ll want to avoid the obvious places like your sock drawer or in a jewelry box in your bedroom.

You have the outdoor cameras, security lights with motion sensors, and other things to safeguard the outside of your home, but have you put as much attention and effort into ensuring that the inside of your home is protected? While the best case scenario is to keep burglars from ever getting inside of your home, even the most well-thought-out perimeter strategy can be thwarted.