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Editor’s Note: Best Buy is Betting on PERS

6.12.19 – SIW – Residential security integrators face more competition, this time from evolved big-box retailers In an age where big-box and brick-and-mortar retailers are dying by the dozen, the ones who are surviving and thriving are the ones who reinvent...

FARA 2019 Symposium Edition

The 22nd Annual International Training Symposium wrapped up on Thursday May 9th with close to 60 attending. This years host hotel was the Crowne Plaza Tampa Westshore in Tampa Florida. Membership Meeting By Brad Shipp Reports were given on financial status and...

Baltimore cyberattack highlights hackers’ new tactics

Governing – Ransomware attacks are becoming more sophisticated and taking longer for governments to recover from. Some of Baltimore’s services have been down for nearly a month.  NCSL resources on 2019 cybersecurity legislation. SPEED READ: Baltimore...

Why Combining A/V & AI Might Finally Lower the False Alarm Rate

5.31.19 – SSI – The alarm industry has been contending with false alarms for well over a hundred years. We have made great strides in improving detection equipment such that most newer installations, installed properly, rarely have a false alarm problem...