Industry leader Timothy M. Creenan, CEO of Amherst Alarm, Inc., is calling for others in the alarm industry to join the fight against harmful ordinances that threaten the industry’s ability to protect lives and property, such as the ordinance put in place by Sandy Springs, Georgia.
Vector Security Inc. announced the recipients of its 2018 Loss Prevention Foundation (LPF) scholarships, which provide financial support to loss prevention professionals seeking to obtain Loss Prevention Qualified (LPQ) and Loss Prevention Certified (LPC) certifications.
National Monitoring Center (NMC), a third-party monitoring company in the U.S. with monitoring centers in Lake Forest, Calif., and Irving, Texas, announced the launch of a new global monitoring company following the merging of four monitoring companies with the backing of global private equity firm The Riverside Company.
Panasonic System Solutions Company of North America has appointed security industry executive Bill Brennan as director of sales and marketing for its security solutions in the surveillance and medical sectors.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), an organization dedicated to defining and raising awareness of best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment, released State of Cloud Security 2018, which lays out some of the latest cloud practices and technologies that the enterprise information security practitioner must be aware of as organizational data expands beyond the traditional perimeter.
Select Security, provider of security and life safety solutions for homes and businesses and ranked No. 32 on the SDM 100, is pleased to announce it has completed the purchase of several companies as part of its expansion in the southeast. The purchases added 6,000 customers, bringing Select Security’s rapidly growing total number of customers to more than 80,000.
Mark Sepulveda of USA Alarm Systems of Monrovia, Calif., will receive the California Alarm Association (CAA) George A. Weinstock Award for Lifetime Achievement and Service to the Industry at the 2018 CAA Winter Convention & Tribute Dinner at The Fairmont San Francisco on December 7, 2018. Sepulveda has been active in the industry and served in various leadership roles for the local and state association for nearly 40 years.
The Edmonds Group has completed a capital raise for DFW Security to support DFW’s launch of a dealer program. DFW, Based in Fort Worth, Texas, is an independently owned security company. Through the dealer program, DFW will purchase alarm agreements in Texas from independent professional alarm companies.