The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, released State of Cloud Security 2018, which lays out some of the latest cloud practices and technologies that the enterprise information security practitioner must be aware of as organizational data expands beyond the traditional perimeter.
Select Security, provider of security and life safety solutions for homes and businesses and ranked No. 32 on the SDM 100, is pleased to announce it has completed the purchase of several companies as part of its expansion in the southeast. The purchases added 6,000 customers, bringing Select Security’s rapidly growing total number of customers to more than 80,000.
Mark Sepulveda of USA Alarm Systems of Monrovia, Calif., will receive the California Alarm Association (CAA) George A. Weinstock Award for Lifetime Achievement and Service to the Industry at the 2018 CAA Winter Convention & Tribute Dinner at The Fairmont San Francisco on December 7, 2018. Sepulveda has been active in the industry and served in various leadership roles for the local and state association for nearly 40 years.
The Edmonds Group has completed a capital raise for DFW Security to support DFW’s launch of a dealer program. DFW, Based in Fort Worth, Texas, is an independently owned security company. Through the dealer program, DFW will purchase alarm agreements in Texas from independent professional alarm companies.
The Security Industry Association announced winners of the SIA New Product Showcase Awards Program. Winners were recognized on stage at ISC West 2018, North America’s largest security tradeshow, and IPConfigure took top honors as Best in Show.
Known for more than six decades as the ASIS International Annual Seminar and Exhibits, Global Security Exchange (GSX) is no stranger to the issues that matter most to today’s security professional. The event’s new name reflects the commitment from ASIS International to provide a forum where security professionals the world over can gather and learn from each other, discuss innovations and connect with allied organizations, companies and service providers.
ESA is organizing a nationwide advocacy movement on May 2 to connect people with their federal elected officials. The organization said it will arm people with information on important legislative issues and facilitate meetings with their members of Congress at their district office. ESA is doing this to facilitate taking an active stance for the industry.
