This week, the Electronic Security Association’s National Training School launched its new Online Instructor Led Training (OILT) platform providing synchronous online training to its customers. ESA has been a front-runner when it comes to offering online courses for the electronic security industry, and the association’s training school continues to evolve with this new and convenient delivery method.
It’s that time of year again when the door-to-door salespeople are out in force trying to spread the word about security services in their area, and once again ADT is spreading the word about fighting fraud and deceptive sales practices, teaming up this time with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal, the Better Business Bureau, TMA and ESA.
In the recent words of London police commissioner Cressida Dick, social media serves to “rev people up,” so the global push to crack down on extremist and violent internet content is unsurprising. In March, the European Commission demanded that tech firms remove terrorist posts within one hour of their appearance. Similar calls have come from corporations and commentators, alike. These forms of pressure are important but focused only on the problem of social media serving as a tool for spreading violent ideas and propaganda. Disturbingly, social media use itself may be predisposing individuals to commit terrorism, shootings and other forms of violence by impacting user behavior and well-being.
Ronald Walters has retired as director of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition (SIAC) after a career that included work in law enforcement, corporate security, an alarm company owner and director of the Security Industry Alarm Coalition.
Until now, U.S. law enforcement has used facial recognition primarily for comparing still photos with mugshots from a database — that is until the ACLU discovered that the Orlando Police Department is testing Amazon’s facial recognition system “Rekognition.”
I-View Now, a software company that has been providing video verification services to central stations and end users since 2011, will be releasing its Police Alarm Portal video verification solution for law enforcement as an extension of its existing technology.
ADT Inc., SDM’s 2017 Dealer of the Year, and Cofense, a provider of human-driven phishing defense solutions worldwide, are offering phishing detection and response to ADT customers.
Custom Alarm of Rochester, Minn., ranked No. 84 on the SDM 100, has renewed the “TMA Five Diamond Monitoring Center” designation. This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of TMA’s five points of excellence.
ESX has revealed meet and greets, live music and more as part of its ESX Central Stage programming. Beginning June 20 at 1 p.m. and continuing throughout the Expo, the Central Stage will provide free entertainment and interactive events to attendees.
