Tag: ISC West
SIA names Scott Gross as 2024 SIA Insightful Practitioner Award honoree
October 17, 2024SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named Scott M. Gross, facility security officer at Con Edison, as the 2024 recipient of the SIA Insightful Practitioner Award, an honor recognizing excellence in promoting the implementation of innovative security solutions.
SIA will present Gross with the award on Nov. 20 during the 2024 SIA Honors Night celebration.
Gross has over four decades of experience in security and fire protection. In...
SIA names John Nemerofsky as 2024 George R. Lippert Memorial Award honoree
October 17, 2024SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) has named John Nemerofsky as the 2024 recipient of the George R. Lippert Memorial Award, an honor presented annually to a distinguished individual for long-term, selfless service to the security industry and to SIA.
Nemerofsky will be presented with the award on Nov. 20 during the 2024 SIA Honors Night celebration.
Nemerofsky is a beacon of leadership in the security industry. With a remarkable career...
SWEAR’s solution provides ‘counterpunch to AI’
October 16, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
NEW YORK—With an increasing amount of disinformation, Boise, Idaho-based SWEAR provides an innovative solution for the security sector to safeguard the integrity of digital content.
The solution, which uses real-time digital DNA encoding to safeguard security content, integrates directly at the video management system level, ensuring that every piece of content is preserved with a secure chain of custody and maintains integrity for evidentiary purposes.
“The volume and...
A more moderate climate
October 2, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
I am opening my blog this week with an apology to my poor Editor, Cory Harris, whose coattails might be a little more damp than usual on my account.
Good-natured Cory stood in for me during this year’s GSX conference in Florida, a show that was by all accounts productive and full of interesting new products, features, software, and partnerships. All well and good if you minded the weather. That’s right, the Security Systems News (SSN) team got chased out of Orlando by Hurricane Helene,...
SIA, IAPSC announce partnership
July 15, 2024SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md.—The Security Industry Association (SIA) and the International Association of Professional Security Consultants (IAPSC) have announced a new partnership effort to promote collaboration, content generation and knowledge sharing.
In addition, the partnership will elevate awareness of the security consultant profession, as well as the essential relationship consultants have with security manufacturers and integrators.
“The partnership between the SIA and IAPSC marks...
LOUD Security to focus more on commercial business following Vytis acquisition
July 3, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
YARMOUTH, Maine—A chance first-time meeting in Las Vegas led to John Loud adding not only a new company to his LOUD Security portfolio, but also a respected industry veteran with a focus on the commercial side of the business.
Loud met Mike Sandes, who was serving as CEO of Vytis Security Systems, while standing in a cab line in Las Vegas to head to ISC West in April.
“The ironic part is, Mike and I have just never met throughout all the years I've known...
Showtime surplus
June 19, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
Summer is in full swing if you hadn’t guessed by the extreme temperatures surfacing everywhere (unless you happen to live in Antarctica), and somehow, we’re still in full swing of conference season.
Actually, scratch that, I might be wrong. It occurs to me that we might not ever truly be OUT of conference season in the security industry. I mean, ISC West was only a scant few months ago in April, and then in May we had PSA TEC. We started out at the beginning of June with the Electronic...
Alarm.com touts cross-selling, data mining
May 10, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
TYSONS, Va. — Alarm.com CEO Steve Trundle, in a recent conference call, highlighted the company’s Connected Fleet offering, which it began offering to partners in April and which he says sets the stage for cross-selling opportunities.
The company talked up the offering – a cloud-based vehicle management solution – with partners at ISC West 2024.
“Many of our partners indicated that connected fleets product integration, along with their existing trusted...
NAPCO locks in Q3
May 8, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
AMITYVILLE, N.Y.—Richard Soloway, CEO of NAPCO Security Technologies, attributed “recurring revenues enabled by hardware innovations” as the catalyst to a 14th consecutive record-breaking quarter for sales during the third quarter of fiscal 2024.
Net sales increased 13% to $49.3 million - the highest quarterly sales in the company's history - while recurring service revenue (RSR) increased 29% to $19.5 million, representing 40% of total revenue.
Locked...
Milestone commits to 'responsibility by design’
May 1, 2024Cory Harris, Editor
LAS VEGAS—Rahul Yadav, chief technology officer (CTO) at Milestone Systems, sat down with Security Systems News (SSN) at ISC West to discuss what’s behind the company's record-breaking year, why it's committing to Responsible Technology and open platforms, and how a “true transformation” is taking place that will influence its future.
SSN: Milestone recently announced net revenues of DKK 1.69 billion (approximately $244.9 million) for the year. What...