ADT, ranked No. 3 on SDM’s Top Systems Integrators Report, today announced the completed purchase of MSE Corporate Security, No. 27 on SDM’s Top Systems Integrators Report.

Dynamark Security Centers, a Five-Diamond central station, has purchased Ohio-based Buckeye Protective Services and added it to the Dynamark Security group of central stations.

Monitronics International Inc. (MONI Smart Security), ranked No. 4 on the SDM 100, has filed a lawsuit in the district court of Dallas against Nationwide Security Solutions Inc. and one of its owners, alleging breach of their contractual obligations to MONI, specifically including their non-competition agreements.

Demonstrating its commitment to supporting returning veterans, ASSA ABLOY is partnering with the USO to provide backpacks loaded with food, toiletries and other personal items, for use as they wait for their personal luggage to arrive back from deployment. 

On the first day of ASIS 2017, Hikvision USA Inc., and Hikvision Canada Inc., North American providers of  video surveillance products and solutions, today, , introduced its new “Partner.Win.” advertising campaign, which is focused on how the Hikvision team works with its partners to win business and garner customer loyalty.

The Security Industry Association will be holding its annual executive conference, Securing New Ground, October 26-27 at the Edison Ballroom in New York City. SDM spoke with two of the moderators of the SNG megatrends panels, Here's what they had to say about the current state and the future outlook of the security industry.

Re-Identification, or the task of finding the same person across a network of surveillance cameras, requires annotating thousands of subjects in each camera pair, explain the writers of a paper written by two Disney researchers, Slawomir Bak and Peter Carr for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-Based Surveillance (AVSS) 2017. 

MONI Smart Security, ranked No. 4 on the SDM 100, will provide a professional monitoring service for Nest Secure. In addition, MONI will be the only major security company offering Nest Secure with professional monitoring.

Most government IT executives believe that IT modernization projects increase security challenges as opposed to alleviate them, according to a new study from Unisys Corporation.

Convergint Technologies, ranked No. 2 on SDM’s Top Systems Integrators Report, acquired the Charleston-based Integrated Security Systems Division (ISSD) of SDI Presence.