This spring has been a heartbreaking year with so many fatal tornadoes. I grew up in the Midwest, so tornado warnings and hunkering down in the basement during tornado season are something I grew up with. 

The House Subcommittee on cybersecurity, infrastructure protection, and security technologies approved a seven-year extension of the rules overseeing chemical production facility security. The measure now moves to the full Homeland Security Committee.

The internet is once again calling Schneider’s bluff as new reports surfaced today that the French global company is exploring options to buy out Tyco International. 

To many people, the name ADT is synonymous with residential security — much like Coke and soda (or pop if you’re from the Midwest).  The company, however, has a $2 billion a year commercial security unit, which is proactively building cutting-edge solutions for business and government customers.

Texana Security is taking steps to educate its customers on just who they’re trying to keep out. 

HID Global, an ASSA ABLOY Group brand, expanded its focus on green products and partner solutions for commercial and government organizations worldwide. 

ONVIF, a standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, is making expansion plans for the future, and those include the addition of physical access control to its specification and building on momentum that has gotten the three-year-old organization to more than 700 conformant products.

PSA Security Network partnered with BICSI and ASIS to offer Continuing Education Credits (CECs) at PSA’s upcoming PSA-TEC event. Fourteen classes have been pre-qualified for BICSI and ASIS CECs, allowing attendees to benefit from a variety of training topics while maintaining their certifications.

Sony Electronics Security Solutions Group announced a new initiative that, according to the company, marks a fundamental improvement in delivering security systems. By partnering with industry-leading systems integrators, Sony will deliver “market-wise” targeted solutions to key vertical markets that solve unique customer problems. 

Though the economy is slowly picking up and more dealers are reporting a favorable outlook for 2011 — 82 percent of SDM 100 companies expect improvements over the next year — 2010 still saw companies struggling to keep their bottom lines from dropping.