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Unisys Corporation announced its top 10 "Tips to be Security Savvy at Big Events" in the wake of a new survey showing Americans are fearful of both physical and cyber attacks at large-scale events as the summer event season gets underway.

Mission 500 announced that its fifth annual security industry softball game fundraiser will take place on Sunday, September 15, 2019. This year’s event will be held from 12-3 PM at Overpeck County Park. A Home Run Derby will officially kick off the event, which will be held at 199 Challenger Road in Ridgefield Park, N.J. 

While security integrators are in business to integrate security systems, often there’s nothing integrated about the business of security itself — from the central stations, interactive service providers and point solutions, to the myriad homegrown systems implemented and jury-rigged together over the years.

Fantasy has caught up with reality; smart home and connected living is going mainstream.

Sometimes the key to greater sales lies not in the discovery of new ideas, but rather in getting rid of some old ones.

If you want to start a ruckus, just say press releases are dead in a room full of marketers.

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.

Cutting-edge technology that delivers what it promises is always a big draw in an industry that relies on protecting life and property.

The one constant is change. Verification, though an old term, continues to evolve in its meaning.

The topic of video monitoring is hotter than ever, and more and more dealer-owned and central monitoring stations are offering some version of it to customers.