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Security systems integrators manage a diverse set of projects with demanding requirements. Their suppliers play a chief role in helping them meet those requirements and exceed their customers’ expectations.

Though many alarm companies in the area have weathered hurricanes and other natural disasters before, it doesn’t make preparations any less urgent.

The SDM 100 Gala is an evening that many security professionals have come to look forward to with anticipation.

More homeowners and small businesses are installing surveillance cameras inside and outside their properties, and police departments across the country have taken notice.

Large, enterprise-scale end users are among the most complex in the security sphere.

ADT Inc. today announced that Jim DeVries, currently president of ADT, will be promoted to chief executive officer to succeed Tim Whall, who will be retiring on November 30, 2018.

As many of you know in December 2016 we sold Atrion, a $156 million integrator, and I planned to retire. However, I found out I wasn’t ready for the sunset quite yet. I continued my active engagement with organizations like PSA Security, NSCA, CompTIA and Channel Partners. I was also able to spend time consulting with some amazing leaders.

Most salespeople hate the weekly sales meeting. You know the one. Everyone on the sales team gathers around for an hour-long discussion about which rep got closer to making a sale, while also covering menial housekeeping issues.

Everything you need to generate leads can be done simply from your mobile phone; heck, you can even generate leads while hanging out at Starbucks like I currently am writing this article, or while you’re lying out on the beach.

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?