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Allstate Security Industries and its employees tackle large-scale central station renovation.

The goal is to get video from point A to point B as quickly as possible with the least amount of disruption, distortion or loss. In security, snags can literally mean the difference between life and death, so how can security integrators make sure they’re doing the absolute best at delivering on this goal?

From cloud-based offerings to integrations, native offerings and more, featured on these pages are some of the latest visitor management products from access control manufacturers as well as third-party providers.

As more devices are introduced and more operational technology (OT) takes advantage of IT networks, the attack surface becomes more difficult to control and monitor.

Security dealers and integrators use a lot of paper: invoices, work orders, requests for proposals (RFPs), schedules, plans and revisions. Not only can that result in hundreds of thousands of printed pages each year, but paper can get misplaced. Focusing on paper reduction can reduce a company’s municipal solid waste (MSW) and increase efficiency.

As drones and robots become more popular, they will become a part of the security industry, but in what capacities and to what extent? Some integrators are already finding them to be invaluable.

A number of the top trends and new developments in unified systems can pay dividends for security integrators who are poised to take advantage of the new opportunities the solutions create.

From longstanding VCR tapes to network-connected solutions to the cloud, storage always has been a primary component of any video surveillance deployments. As technologies continue to change, so too do the approaches security integrators use when working within this space.