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With many of this year’s SDM 100 companies expressing concerns about inflation, rising costs and price increases from their suppliers, Mike Barnes, president of Barnes Associates, addresses the need to consider raising installation AND monitoring prices.

Like the rest of the economy, the security industry is facing down a number of challenges during the second quarter of 2023.

SDM 100 companies reported a wide variety of experiences in 2022, very much depending on the path, location and unique set of challenges that made up their business conditions last year. As a group, however, they continue to rise to the challenges put before them and find their individual path to success.

Check out this image gallery of ISC West scenes from across the exhibition show floor, chockablock with product and technology highlights, as well as ancillary goings-on.

A smart port is an automated port that uses cutting-edge technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), the internet of things (IoT), and blockchain to improve its operation.

When NYC developer Macklowe Properties undertook the city’s largest-ever office-to-residential conversion, its time-tested relationship with ESCC made the integrator a natural fit for the project, which won the 2023 SDM Project of the Year Award.  

The SIA Security Market Index, sponsored by Wesco, is a bimonthly measure of industry confidence that surveys a select group of security professionals regarding their business’ current and expected state and activity.

The Security Industry Association (SIA) presented seven new members to the SIA board of directors at the SIA’s annual membership gathering, held during ISC West.

Movado, a luxury watchmaker, is field-testing Tando indoor drones, an element of ADT Commercial’s EvoGuard brand.

HID's new State of Security and Identity Report chronicles the emerging keys to both sustaining and enhancing baseline operations and how to empower security teams to create more value for the organization and its people.