This issue presents the annual SDM 100 Report (beginning on page 38), a ranking based on revenue of the largest security installation and monitoring providers.

This month’s cover story, “It Takes a Village,” continues SDM’s coverage of the complex issue of cyber security overlaid onto physical electronic security.

How would you rate your ability to operate a security company in a complex environment? The fact is that business-operating complexity may be one reason the security industry is contracting.

My son received a Weber Smokey Mountain Cooker for Christmas and for New Year’s Eve dinner he made the most delicious brisket for the family. . . .

Monitoring today doesn’t mean what it did a few short years ago.

We have a new look! This is the first issue introducing the redesign of both SDM and our twice-annual supplement, Monitoring Today.

In 2018, host country Russia went to great extent to ensure that it provided the tightest security possible surrounding World Cup events; news reports at the time gave us a glimpse into some of the tactics and resources.

In a 2017 article in Investopedia, author Shobit Seth outlined “10 Characteristics of Successful Entrepreneurs".

Thanks to decades of AI villains in the movies, and technology leaders who tend to hyperbolize the dangers of AI, some fear that artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity — but is it?

At the Lockport City School District in Lockport, N.Y., the surveillance system is being upgraded to a facial recognition system that will check each face against a database of “expelled students, sex offenders and other possible troublemakers,” according to an article by Associated Press that was picked up the week of July 22 by several media outlets, among them FoxNews.com.