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    A properly planned repeater network creates overlapping circles of coverage, ensuring that if a transmitter activates in a covered area, the signal will have multiple paths to find the receiver.
    How to use frequency-hopping, spread-spectrum technology and repeater networks to overcome wireless obstacles
    Sept. 13, 2017
    Chris Peterson is the founder and president of Vector Firm (www.vectorfirm.com), a sales consulting and training company built specifically for the security industry. To request more info about the company, visit www.securityinfowatch.com/12361573.
    How to make sure your customers realize they still need you even in the information age
    Sept. 13, 2017
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    Explaining the value of an integrated access control and visitor management solution to K-12 users is vitally important to systems integrators serving this vertical market.
    Stressing the benefits of an integrated system to K-12 customers may be the inside track to making a sale
    Sept. 13, 2017
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    Ground-based radar can notify an operator in a central monitoring station that someone is approaching a facility and how fast.
    Network radar detectors can empower video surveillance systems on the perimeter
    Sept. 13, 2017
    Paul Rothman is Editor-in-Chief of Security Business magazine. Email him your comments and questions at prothman@securitybusinessmag.com. Access the current issue, full archives and apply for a free subscription at www.securitybusinessmag.com.
    Security pros will have a front-row seat, but there won’t be any coverage in the trade press
    Sept. 13, 2017
    Joe Gittens is Director of Standards for the Security Industry Association (SIA). Learn more about SIA at www.securityindustry.org.
    The initiative would enable security manufacturers to cyber-certify their processes and devices
    Sept. 13, 2017
    Eric Pritchard is a Philadelphia Lawyer who spends his workday making the world safe for electronic security providers. He can be reached at eric.pritchard@fisherbroyles.com. This column does not constitute legal advice; contact an attorney with questions.
    Essential provisions that should be included in employment-related restrictive covenants
    Sept. 13, 2017
    Ray Coulombe is Founder and Managing Director of SecuritySpecifiers and the CONSULT Technical Security Symposium. Email him at ray@SecuritySpecifiers.com, or contact him through LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/raycoulombe or follow him on Twitter: @RayCoulombe.
    SQLI attacks are gaining steam….are your clients protected?
    Sept. 13, 2017
    The annual ranking of the fastest-growing private companies in America included 73 companies in the security industry
    Sept. 13, 2017
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    How network scanning as a service has paid dividends at Tulane University
    How network scanning as a service has paid dividends at Tulane University
    Sept. 13, 2017
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    One company that has achieved tremendous success since entering the home security market is Comcast. In just five years since launching Xfinity Home, the company’s flagship home security and automation service, Comcast has attained over one million subscribers.
    Cable giant has grown its home security business to over 1 million customers in just five years
    Aug. 18, 2017
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    The Occly Blinc, pictured above, features four 'always-on' cameras, as well as a microphone, sirens, LED lighting, wireless capabilities and a number of automatic alarm sensors. The device, after someone puts it on and activates it, continually records images using the onboard cameras for the duration of the battery life, which is about nine-and-a-half hours. When an alarm is activated, which can be done manually by the user hitting a panic button or automatically through one the device’s impact sensors being triggered, a signal is sent to the Occly Emergency Response Center where an operator can dispatch law enforcement if necessary.
    Company's 'Blinc' wearable personal safety device ideal for a wide range of users, applications
    Aug. 17, 2017
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    By the end of 2017, IHS says that nearly seven percent of households in the Americas region will have a connected home and globally, in 2025, they predict that 10 percent of all households will be smart homes.
    Research firm projects 10 percent of households will be smart by 2025
    Aug. 15, 2017
    (Graphic courtesy The Freedonia Group)
    The graphic shows the projected growth in demand in the U.S. for alarm systems broken down by product category, key vertical markets and leading industry manufacturers.
    Increase in the number of elderly individuals, rising interest in 'age in place' solutions to drive demand
    Aug. 10, 2017
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    NorthStar Home recently announced it is launching an Authorized Affiliate Funding Program as a way to grow the company through the dealer sales channel and give it a more permanent physical presence in the markets it currently serves.
    Having achieved success with direct-to-home sales, company looks to grow through the dealer channel
    Aug. 10, 2017
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    Acquisition expands ADT's commercial presence in the Pacific Northwest
    Aug. 10, 2017
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    Company's Chattanooga branch becomes its' third largest with purchase
    Aug. 8, 2017
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    Retired U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Gregory Touhill, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama to serve as the nation's first federal chief information security officer, recently left his career in public service to become president of Cyxtera Technologies' Federal Group (CFG).
    U.S. Air Force veteran and renowned cybersecurity expert discusses the challenge of securing government networks
    Aug. 8, 2017
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    Both associations to offer reciprocal training discounts
    Aug. 8, 2017
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    Alliance revamps roadmap for individuals and organizations looking to safely and securely adopt the cloud paradigm
    July 31, 2017
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    Phoenix-based Bonds had more than 9,000 customers
    July 31, 2017
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    Free seminar roadshow targets alarm dealers and installer companies
    July 28, 2017
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    Members of Congress and their staffs were briefed by school safety advocates and industry leaders about the security issues facing the nation’s school during the recently held SIA GovSummit in Washington, D.C.
    Industry leaders, safety advocates visit Capitol Hill to discuss the issues facing the nation’s schools
    July 5, 2017