The Central Station Alarm Association (CSAA) and SDM Magazine invite all central stations certified by any of the CSAA-approved Nationally Recognized Testing Laboratories (NRTLs), such as UL or FM, CSAA

The 7th Annual Alarm Research and Educational Foundation (AIREF) golf tournament will be held March 23, 2010 at the Revere Golf Club in Las Vegas, one day prior to

For more than a dozen years, Ron Nelson was part of SDM’s extended family of writers and held the title, “Contributing Technology Writer.” Last month we learned that, following a

No expensive airline tickets, hotel rooms, or long waits in line at the airport. Coming to you live from your own desktop (or laptop), on March 3 is iSecurity 2010,

Have you heard that the economy is slowly getting back on track? That the recession’s over and we can all go back to doing things the way we did them

It should come as a shock to no one in the security industry that the days of plain old telephone service (POTS) and the public switched telephone network (PSTN) are

SDM is in the process of surveying the industry to determine the largest security installation and monitoring companies -- the 2010 SDM 100. Surveys have been released, and the deadline

It is with a heavy heart that I tell our readers about the recent death of Ron Nelson, director of operations for Mutual Central Alarm Services Inc., New York. Ron

It isn't very often that a company point blank asks its customers - all around the world - all at once - what they want. HID Global, Irvine, Calif., is

If you haven’t had to sit through one of them yourself, you probably know someone who has. It’s those two-day events that every sales person dreads:   The sales meeting.