When it comes to protecting your valuables, important and sensitive documents, identity papers, cash, and important data, investing in a wall safe is a wise move. However, if during a burglary your safe is in plain view, it can become the focus of a concerted effort to crack it.
With less expensive wall safes, such an effort may simply center on a brute force attack on the door or side of the safe, either with a heavy cutting implement for the lightest of safes, or with something like a crow bar, sledgehammer, or axe for the heavier safes. If your safe is particularly robust, and your attacker is particularly professional, he may take the whole safe, and attempt to cut the safe open with an oxy-acetylene torch or an oxygen-lance somewhere off site.
The solution to these problems is concealment. Provided your cover is good enough, you need not worry about such attempts on hidden wall safes. A wall safe that is sturdy enough and hidden well is almost invulnerable to theft: If they can't find it, how can they steal from it? Wall safes come in various sizes, and many, if not all of the safes on the market today are suitable for mounting as wall safes. The installation cost of a wall safe can be somewhat high, especially if a proper concealment job is being done, however, it is usually well worth the investment.
A wall firearms safe is a good location to store guns, if you have any in the house. In some states and countries, it is mandatory to secure all guns in a safe of some sort. Fortunately, a typical wall rifle safe, big enough to accommodate several rifles as well as ammunition and pistols, is still rather affordable. A Sentry wall firearms safe or Defender wall safe big enough to accommodate 4 rifles starts at about US$250.
Convenience or necessity might make a normal keyed or combination safe unappealing to you. Fortunately, with the exponentially increasing rate of computing power, and the reduction in cost of electronic hardware, it is now possible to get a consumer level biometric wall safe at an affordable price. Biometric safes start at around $100, and can go anywhere upwards from there. A biometric safe works by scanning the fingerprints of the authorized "key holders", and recording a pattern based on the print. When you wish to open the safe, you simply place your finger on the pad; the safe scans the print, and compares it to the pattern in its database. If the pattern matches, the safe opens. Such a wall safe is quick and easy to use, and avoids many of the complications involved with forgotten combinations, or lost keys.
An electronic combination wall safe is even cheaper by comparison, if you're only after a small model. A concealed lockable box such as this is perfect for passports, photos, jewelry, cash, or for storing a pistol and ammunition.
