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Security integrators and end users in search of visitor management solutions have never had more choices; however, not all visitor management systems are created equal.

Managed access control — as well as hosted access control — is an area many security integrators are showing a growing interest in exploring.

The video surveillance market is strong and will continue to grow. It is less a lumbering giant, though, and more an agile athlete, able to pivot and adapt — it just happens to be the largest one on the security court.

Networks have transformed over the years from disparate, hardwired systems to integrated multi-layered systems with a combination of hardwired and wireless access points, and an amalgamation of devices all going back to the same place.

How do you define the difference between emergency communication and mass notification? It turns out the difference is not so cut and dried.

Carmelo Mosca has truly climbed the ranks of Affiliated Monitoring Inc., a Union, N.J.-based monitoring center.

On April 27, 1967, Dante Monteverde founded what is now EMERgency24 in Chicago.

There has been a big shift in the security market in the past few years — both for commercial and residential systems.

For most monitoring centers, security operations centers (SOCs) and global security operations centers (GSOCs), the process of designing the space requires careful consideration of the organization’s needs, mission, space and culture.

Last year was a big one for security industry mergers and acquisitions. SDM counted at least seven major deals involving security dealers or integrators — as either buyers or sellers.