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Wickey Wang - Cybersecurity Chronicles
Cybersecurity Services

The Devices You Install Are Your Next Revenue Stream

Wickey Wang
Wickey Wang
June 12, 2026

Security integrators already own the hardware, the relationships and the access. Here’s how to turn that into a recurring cybersecurity practice, before someone else does.


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Mary O’Sullivan - Integration Spotlight
Employee Retention

The Importance of Investing in Training

Mary O’Sullivan, manager of learning and development at PSA Security Network
Mary O’Sullivan
June 4, 2026

Reducing employee turnover can help companies safeguard their financial health. This article explores strategies for increasing retention.


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Trends & Industry Issues

Security’s Sixth Sense: Are Silos Already Dead?

Karyn Hodgson
June 2, 2026

Spoiler alert: If you haven’t seen the movie by now, you likely know that the “twist” in the 1999 movie “The Sixth Sense” was that the psychologist played by Bruce Willis has been dead the whole time. He just didn’t know it.


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Geoff Kohl

How Commercial Real Estate Investors View Security

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Geoff Kohl
May 14, 2026

To connect with commercial real estate investors, security integrators need to speak their language. That means leading with solutions, not technology, and clearly articulating the ROI of security systems.


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Drew Burch, director of sales and marketing, Pro-Tec Design

Stop Avoiding IT. Start Owning the Room.

Drew Burch, Pro-Tec Design
Drew Burch
May 7, 2026

By working directly with IT teams from the jump, not at the end of the process, security sales professionals can work to stop pesky data breaches before they happen — and get approval for security systems faster. 


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SDM 100 REPORT

The Strategists

Karyn Hodgson
May 4, 2026

This year’s top 100 security dealers shared how they had to be strategic to overcome outside challenges and pressures.


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Security Law

When a Manufacturer’s Problem Becomes Your Customer’s Problem

Lessing E. Gold
May 4, 2026

A security dealer sued an alarm manufacturer when a defective model kept causing false alarms for end customers. 


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Security Law

The Line Between Premises Liability & Ordinary Negligence

Lessing E. Gold
April 9, 2026

In a case before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the court considered the defendant’s motion for summary judgment addressing whether the plaintiffs’ carbon monoxide injury claims could proceed under theories of ordinary negligence, premises liability, or both.


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Zach Brackett

Future-Focused Design: Building Systems With Optionality, Not Predictions

Zach Brackett
Zach Brackett
April 2, 2026

Why using a “future-focused” design with optionality is better than a “future-proof” approach.  


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Adom Usuf
SIA Waypoints

The Hidden Value of Audio in Security

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Adom Yusuf
March 20, 2026

In a new video from the SIA Audio and Intelligent Communications Subcommittee, SIA member experts discuss the ways in which adding audio to your customers’ security solutions suite can get them more insights and actionable intelligence.  


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