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According to the SDM Top Systems Integrators Report, published in July 2016, the top three vertical market sectors are corporate, education/campus and healthcare, all of which rely heavily on access control technology as part of their overall security solution.

The data center cloud already has brought big changes to the security business by enabling remote system control from users’ smartphones.

More than one-third of U.S. homeowners and 14 percent of renters have a functioning security system, research by Dallas-based Parks Associates shows.

They say necessity is the mother of invention.

Mass notification, or emergency communications, are two terms that are often used interchangeably; but are they truly the same thing? 

Innovation is the name of the game for central stations that offer monitoring on a wholesale basis.

Video management systems (VMS) have been evolving for several years, starting out as proprietary, closed solutions offered by manufacturers that would work only with their cameras and/or recorders.

The world of commercial alarms is changing, or rather has changed. With moves almost exclusively to cellular and IP communications, security dealers are tasked with determining what type of security system makes the most sense for each project.

Since the United States Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission required companies to conduct adequate due diligence on third parties in order to meet their compliance obligations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other similar legislation, there has been an explosion of due diligence providers entering the market.

ecurity integrators must embrace a constantly changing technology market. Such an embrace of technology must be compatible with all facets of the IT infrastructure and the Internet around us.