It’s June, the start of summer — the season of backyard BBQs, gatherings with friends and family, and summer vacations. But for most of us, this summer season may look different than usual.

“May you live in interesting times.” I’ve been hearing this phrase a lot lately related to the impact of COVID-19 and the resulting shutdowns of schools and businesses. Curious where this phrase comes from, I Googled it. 

For avid news-watchers like myself, the COVID-19 health issue has provided so many opportunities to learn how the world is altering these days.

When I started out in the security industry, I had the good fortune of being hired and subsequently mentored by SDM’s chief editor at the time, Susan Whitehurst.

When it comes to running a top-tier monitoring center, the people component is perhaps the biggest factor that can make the difference — in some cases in life or death; but also the overall customer experience.

Welcome to 2020. This year has special significance for me, as my oldest son will graduate high school and prepare to go off to college in the fall.

Plenty has been written over the past several decades about whether technology makes our lives easier.

If you don’t think business intelligence should be part of your plan because your customers aren’t yet asking about it, you’d better rethink that so you can get on top of the trend.

When my daughter was in sixth grade, the dad of one of her classmates asked what we had done as parents to give our daughter so much confidence.

This is a special edition of SDM, as it features the 2019 Top Systems Integrators Report, a ranking of the largest security integrators by systems integration revenue.