Vector Security was the first alarm company to go live with Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) in Dauphin County, Penn. on Feb. 26. 

Recent reporting by Business Insider, CNN Business and many other publications have highlighted the undisclosed, on-board microphone discovered in Google’s Nest Guard Security Device — raising serious privacy concerns among consumers. The Monitoring Association (TMA) and the Electronic Security Association (ESA), trade associations representing professionals who install and monitor security and life safety technologies in homes and businesses, call into question the validity of Google’s published statements concerning the use of microphones in security devices. 

The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced that Jim Grubb, chief technology evangelist, Cisco Systems, will deliver the keynote address on Thursday, Feb. 28 at TMA’s 2019 Tech Summit in Salt Lake City, Utah. 

The Monitoring Association (TMA) announced today the appointment of Steve Walker, vice president of customer service for Minneapolis-based Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, to the executive committee of its board of directors. 

All organizations need to evolve in changing times to meet the needs of their customers and constituents. The Monitoring Association is no different. Here are a few highlights in crucial areas from last year:

Just days before starting her new role as executive director of TMA, Celia Besore spoke with SDM about her vision for the association. 

Celia T. Besore, MBA, CAE will become the new executive director of The Monitoring Association (TMA). Besore currently serves as TMA’s vice president of membership and programs and previously worked at the association as vice president of marketing and communications. The first woman to lead TMA staff as executive director, Besore will assume her new position on November 1, following the retirement of Executive Director Jay Hauhn on October 31.

The Monitoring Association announced the 12 finalists for the 2018 TMA Excellence Awards. Listed in alphabetical order by company within each category, they are...

At the general membership meeting in Nashville this June, TMA members chose Ivan Spector of Montreal-based Sentinel Alarm Co. as their next president. In anticipation of the changes, SDM spoke with Spector regarding his upcoming appointment.

The Monitoring Association (TMA) has renewed The Protection Bureau’s Five Diamond Monitoring Center designation. This designation is granted annually to monitoring centers that satisfy all of the requirements of the five points of excellence, the company said in a press release.