CANASA announced Marc Mineau, CANASA president from 1989-1990, died May 25, 2017.

All the suspense surrounding the SIA New Product Showcase (NPS) ended yesterday afternoon when CrucialTrak’s Biometric Access Control System (BACS) took top honors as Best New Product.

In a ceremony held yesterday afternoon, seven distinguished security industry professionals joined the ranks of the SSI Hall of Fame in recognition of their contributions to the industry. This year’s inductees join 85 others who have been inducted into the SSI Hall of Fame since its founding in 2004.

In his role as chairman of the Security Industry Association (SIA), Denis Hébert, president of Feenics Inc., welcomed security industry luminaries to the annual meeting of SIA Membership on the first day of ISC West 2017 on Tuesday.

From the moment the Security Industry Association (SIA) opened the submission process for this year’s SIA New Product Showcase (NPS) in late 2016, entries began rolling in, as more than 80 companies submitted their products for consideration.

As of March 16, 2017, The Monitoring Association (TMA) is the new name of the 67-year-old Central Station Alarm Association. The name change reflects an adjustment in mission and focus necessitated by growth and changes in the alarm monitoring industry (find out more about this decision in a Q-and-A with SDM and Elizabeth Lasko, TMA vice president of communications).

SIA successfully petitioned the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to include IP cameras in its “microprocessor/microcomputer” waiver for certain IT equipment under its “Buy America” requirements.