This SDM 100 brand-usage report details the top technology vendors and distributors that earned their business in 2023.

Anyone who attended last month’s ISC West show in Las Vegas probably noticed a few key trends. 

The top SDM 100 companies reported that the market in 2023 — whether they deemed it average or excellent — was largely defined by a few key factors: inflation, an emphasis on video technology advancements and the continuing workforce shortage.

This year’s winner of SDM’s Project of the Year Award is Minuteman Security

Diversity, equity and inclusion is a key initiative that can help the security industry with its talent shortage.

For the first time since the pre-COVID summer of 2019, Genetec gathered the world’s security trade press for a “press summit,” held this year February 6-7 in the company’s newly opened Washington, D.C. Experience Center.

This year’s event was the best attended since pre-COVID, and began in earnest with company presentations from ADS, Brinks Home, Elite ISI, PEAK Alarm, and Zeus Fire and Security.

Security Industry Trends

With the pandemic and supply chain issues both mostly in the rear-view mirror, security dealers and integrators are returning to “normal” and focusing on more typical challenges such as the economy, increasing sales, competing effectively and generating more RMR.

IT’S JANUARY. Happy New Year! I hope you have an ordinary year.