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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.

Resideo Technologies Inc. has acquired Pittsburgh-based LifeWhere. The newly acquired company uses machine learning and analytics to predict potential failure on critical home appliances, such as water heaters, furnaces and air conditioners. 

U.S. Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Tom Carper (D-DE) published a report that documents the failure of eight federal agencies, over the course of two administrations, to address vulnerabilities in their IT infrastructure.