Tag: Doyle Security
ESA announces initiative to introduce the SECURE Act in state legislatures
November 6, 2025SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA), the national voice for the electronic security and life safety industry, has announced plans to introduce the SECURE Act in state legislatures across the country beginning in 2025.
The proposal, known as Safeguarding Election Candidates Using Reasonable Expenditures, provides a clear framework that allows candidates and elected officials to use campaign funds for professional security services.
The SECURE Act clarifies that campaign...
FlyLock announces strategic partnership with ESA
October 16, 2025SSN Staff
QUINCY, Mass.—FlyLock, a provider of access control solutions, has announced a strategic partnership with the Electronic Security Association (ESA) to arm technicians with training and to enrich services offered by its growing network of nearly 100 franchise locations across the United States.
Through this partnership, ESA becomes FlyLock’s trusted provider of education, certification, and business resources. FlyLock franchise owners and their teams will have the opportunity...
ESA forms AI Readiness Council (ARC)
September 5, 2025SSN Staff
IRVING, Texas—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced the formation of its AI Readiness Council (ARC), a forward-thinking initiative designed to help the electronic security and life safety industry navigate the complexities of artificial intelligence (AI) adoption in a responsible, practical, and profitable way.
Priya Serai, chief information officer at Zeus Fire and Security, will lead the council as its chairperson, bringing deep expertise and strategic vision to this...
ESA announces 2025 board of directors
June 13, 2025SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced the 2025 Board of Directors election results, with members of ESA recently voting for several open positions on the board, resulting in the election of a group of dedicated professionals who will help shape the future of the association.
In accordance with ESA’s bylaws, this year’s election included positions for three integrator directors and one associate member director. The integrator directors are Jeremy Bates,...
ESA names Mike Keegan as 2025 Sara E. Jackson Award winner
May 23, 2025SSN Staff
DALLAS—The Electronic Security Association (ESA) has announced that this year’s Sara E. Jackson Award recipient is Mike Keegan, vice president of security product sales for Magnasphere Corp.
Named after ESA’s former president, this prestigious award recognizes and honors an ESA member’s work on an association committee, task force, or board.
“Mike Keegan’s leadership has always been grounded in service – service to our industry, to ESA,...
Doyle Security takes easy step to understand customers
November 13, 2015Spencer Ives
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Doyle Security, a full-service company based in Rochester, N.Y., started better understanding its customers by asking one question: On a scale of one to 10, “How likely is it that you would recommend Doyle Security to a friend or relative?”
With that question, Doyle can calculate its Net Promoter Score, Todd Julien, company director of sales, told an audience at Honeywell CONNECT 2015. "We think it's a growth strategy for us," he said. It lets the company...
Northeast's snow and central stations
March 11, 2015Spencer Ives
YARMOUTH, Maine—Amidst record-breaking amounts of snow, totaling more than 100 inches in some cities this winter, central stations in the Northeast still needed to operate fully staffed.For American Alarm and Communications, based just outside Boston, which got walloped with 104 inches of snow by early March, that meant inflatable beds, hotel rooms and shovels. Amherst Alarm is based outside of Buffalo, N.Y., which experienced especially heavy snow in some parts and more normal accumulation...
Time Warner Cable, Frontier enter home security market
November 22, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
YARMOUTH, Maine—Time Warner Cable and Frontier Communications are now joining other cableco and telecom companies in launching home security/home automation offerings.Time Warner is selling its IntelligentHome security and home automation system in upstate New York, Southern California and North Carolina, according to a recent report by the Democrat and Chronicle, a Rochester, N.Y. newspaper.Also in Rochester, N.Y., Frontier is teaming up with ADT Security Systems to offer a variety of ADT...
Post NYBFAA open discussion forum, Article 6-E put to bed?
February 17, 2011Daniel Gelinas
ALBANY, N.Y.—It looks as though Article 6-E has reached the end of its journey—for now.
In a Feb. 15 email interview with Security Systems News, NYBFAA executive director Dale Eller said the New York state association's board of directors had a lot to think about after the Feb. 10 meeting at which two dozen security industry executives aired their opinions on the nascent central station licensing legislation. Eller said the board came to a decision late in the day Feb. 15.
“As...
Proposed New York legislation causes major stir
January 20, 2011Daniel Gelinas
ALBANY, N.Y.—Proposed legislation being developed by an alarm association committee here has created such a stir that the New York Burglar & Fire Alarm Association has decided to conduct an open forum discussion at its Feb. 10 board of directors meeting.
The legislation in question, called Article 6-E, would require licensing of central station employees of any central station wishing to monitor alarms in the state of New York.
“While the NYBFAA took numerous steps to alert the...