The Journal

The Hidden Flaw in Luxury Vaults

Anchoring a Heavy Safe Properly The displacement of a 4,000-pound physical security enclosure during a 1993 logistical bypass in a Zurich depository did not require thermal lances or diamond-tipped...

The Floor: Your Vault's Ultimate Weakness

Vault Anchoring Gets the Floor Wrong The floor fails before the fastener does. That is the forensic pattern that surfaces repeatedly when physical security investigators examine post-incident vault...

The Art of the Unshakable Vault

Vault Anchoring Without Compromise The intrusion crew that targeted an unanchored UL Class TL-30 safe in a documented Munich residential breach did not defeat the lock. They did not penetrate the d...

Anchoring Your Fortune from the Ground Up

Vault Anchoring Done Right In February 2011, a private estate vault in the suburbs of Geneva was not defeated by a thermal lance, a decoded biometric sequence, or a manipulated dial. The UL 687 Cla...