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The Security Industry Association (SIA) says this renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) acknowledges thoughtful and necessary changes that will create a fair-trade landscape while upholding pro-business principles in removing unnecessary trade barriers. 

The Monitoring Association (TMA) seeks to hear from security alarm and monitoring service providers who have experienced call blocking in order to present information to the FCC. 

The Monitoring Association (TMA) onboarded its 63rd PSAP in the United States — the Metropolitan Nashville Davidson County Tenn. Department of Emergency Communications. Launched in 2011 as a public-private partnership, TMA’s ASAP-to-PSAP service is designed to increase the accuracy and efficiency of calls for service from alarm companies to PSAPs.   

California’s Senate Bill 327 became a statewide law on Jan. 1, as did Oregon's House Bill 2395. To address cyber security laws like these, DMP has released new firmware updates for its family of control panels.

Underwriters Laboratories Inc. has concluded its investigation of UL Product Incident Report 2019MS-940, which was requested by Jeffrey Zwirn, president of IDS Research & Development. 

ONVIF, a global standardization initiative for IP-based physical security products, hosted its 21st Developers’ Plugfest late last year in Rome, an event that highlighted the continued demand for interoperable solutions.

The Security Industry Association (SIA), the leading trade association representing more than 1,000 companies and organizations developing and delivering security solutions, testified today before the House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform. 

The U.S. Senate passed the Developing and Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act. This bipartisan bill, which unanimously passed the senate in the 115th Congress and was reintroduced in May 2019 by Senators Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.), calls for the creation of a working group of federal entities and experts from the private and academic sectors tasked with providing recommendations to congress on how to facilitate the growth of connected IoT technologies. 

Genetec Inc., a technology provider of unified security, public safety, operations and business intelligence, shared its top five predictions for the physical security industry in 2020.

Nine years after its 2011 launch, The Monitoring Association’s (TMA) Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP) service is slowly — but surely — creeping into monitoring centers everywhere.