How are security departments’ budgets changing? To whom do most security leaders report? How are current events affecting their operations and priorities? What are security executives’ goals for the coming year, and what are they most proud of accomplishing in 2018?

Kudos to the more than 30 companies, and counting, that have already joined forces to sponsor the first annual Security Industry Softball Game, benefitting Mission 500, the non-profit organization that spearheads corporate responsibility in security and champions the needs of underprivileged children and communities in crisis. On game day — Saturday, September 12 — security sponsors across competitive lines, and in all facets of the industry at large, will suit up and take aim to hit ’em out of the park — Leonia, N.J., that is — with 100 percent of the funds raised going directly to benefit the respected World Vision charity.