Yesterday at the ADT roadshow in Chicago, I heard a reinforced vote of confidence in recent trends, such as cloud computing, mobile security, big data and analytics for a client-funded security model. 

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At ISC West I had the privilege to serve for the first time as a judge for SIA’s New Product Showcase Awards. What a fascinating experience! Not only was I able to watch each company in my judging category present their working products and describe them in detail, I also was able to learn from the other judges — consultants, architects, systems integrators — about what they considered to be the key elements of each product, and what would make them choose one over another.
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Bob Bonifas, CEO of Alarm Detection Systems, Aurora, Ill. (No. 23 on the SDM 100) is in the news today - but not for anything to do with security.
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One of the security industry's own, David Gonzalez, director of business development at Tri-Ed / Northern Video Distribution, is being credited as a hero who was primarily responsible for restraining a pilot who behaved in an enraged manner during a jetBlue flight yesterday morning. Gonzalez told SDM that the real hero is the co-pilot, who landed the plane safely in Amarillo, Texas.
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