Rebecca Sorgiovanni, Optic Security Group Corporate Services Development Manager and winner of the 2025 Australian Security Industry Awards ‘Unsung Hero (Electronic Security Sector)’ category, delivered an International Women's Day address at a recent ASIAL Adelaide breakfast briefing.

Security is often perceived of and experienced differently between genders, and this has important implications for understanding the diversity of our individual relationships with security risk and threats.

The retail crime surge that peaked in 2023-24 has more to do with economic cycles than it does with any post-COVID societal shifts.

The month of February has seen Optic Security Group gain membership of the Australian Government’s Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) and recertify across multiple ISO standards.

When speaking to some of our valued customers at last year's ASIAL Security Conference in Sydney, I learned that many of them were not aware of either the full range of solutions we can deliver for them or the extent of our geographical coverage.