Some sobering comments heard at a financial conference earlier this year related to trends in cybercrime and the difficulty that smaller security companies might face competing with security companies that are better prepared to protect customers.

Regardless of whether our industry gets credit or not, the bottom line is that the security industry’s products and services are without question helping law enforcement identify and track suspects.

It will be important in 2016 to recognize potential limitations to growth, such as cybersecurity, and to use every available resource for overcoming them.

Aren’t you getting tired of seeing a do-it-yourself security or home control display in almost every retail store you go into? 

SDM’s 2015 Dealer of the Year combines both old and new ideas to pave the way for the future.

With great cyber security services now being offered by security dealers and integrators, you wouldn’t be able to find out very much.With great cyber security services now being offered by security dealers and integrators, you wouldn’t be able to find out very much.

At Kastle Systems, the service mantra gets far more than lip service. It is at the core of everything the company does.

Writers are taught to use the most precise words possible, so understandably, a writer’s liberal use of the word “thing” in any one article or essay is frowned upon by journalism teachers. Thus when the term Internet of Things came to be widely used, I was delighted by its ability to deliver such a broad and imprecise meaning. It was intriguing, yet ultimately too wide-ranging — just what was this Internet of Things (IoT)?

Let’s all get on board and help raise the bar for ethical behavior in the industry — and call out those companies who disregard it.

Back in the day, “the establishment” was something the younger generation of the 1960s didn’t trust because it referred to a group that included elite government officials, the media and large corporations — and it usually meant that two or more of these entities were thought to be in cahoots.