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Offers Free PBX Call Forwarding for Remote Workers DICE Corporation is offering four months of free PBX call forwarding for the alarm and security industries as part of the company’s... ISC West 2020 Further Postponed Until October Today, the organizers of ISC West announced the 2020 event will be postponed for the second time, until October 5-8, at the Sands Expo in... CEDIA Rolls Out CEDIASTRONG in Response to the Pandemic CEDIASTRONG will provide members with free financial planning tools and services, technical training and webinars, career planning resour... COPS Monitoring Donates Laptops to Quarantined Veterans COPS Monitoring donated laptops to the Veterans Memorial Home in Vineland, N.J., giving its residents the ability to connect with loved o... IC Realtime Shifts Production to South Korea Today, IC Realtime announced a strategic plan to provide advanced video surveillance products from South Korea, a TAA-compliant country.&... Genetec Offers Its Digital Evidence Management System at No Cost Genetec Inc. is making its digital evidence management system, Genetec Clearance, available free of charge to any organization looking to... PSA TEC 2020 Cancelled PSA, the world’s largest security and systems integrator consortium, today announced it will cancel TEC 2020 due to COVID-19. See More News Video Solutions Integrators Share How They Added Cloud-Based Video Solutions Maggie McFadden Shein Cloud-based video services can make a security integrator’s life easier in terms of installation, customer service and maintenance. … Trends & Industry Issues State of the Market 2020: Access Control Karyn Hodgson A continuing strong economy, end user desires to do more with their access control systems and increasing interest in new technologies, integrations and models all led to a positive outlook … Video Solutions Sorting Through the Jargon of Video Storage Derek Rice When discussing video storage technologies and products, there are many acronyms and terms that are thrown around. But what, exactly, do they mean? … SDM Newswire Laura Stepanek to Retire From SDM, Karyn Hodgson Promoted to Editor SDM today announced that Laura E. Stepanek, the magazine’s Editor and Associate Publisher, has decided to retire effective April 1, 2020. … Trends & Industry Issues 'Badging In' Goes Digital & Higher Security Karyn Hodgson There was a time not too long ago when choosing the card and reader for an access control installation consisted of which proximity reader style from a limited number of … Smart Home Welcome to the Smart Workplace Courtney Wolfe It’s 2020 and employees expect a lot from their workplace. No longer are they OK with clumsy key cards, hunting for parking spaces and searching for the correct conference room. … Access Control & Identification ISC West 2020 Postponed Reed Exhibitions, the organizers of ISC West, issued a statement today explaining ISC West 2020 will be postponed until July. … Subscribe For Free! 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With this new firmware upgrade, the Halo sensor is moving from a vape and THC detector to much more. Coronavirus Coverage The Silver Lining is the Cloud Dan Dunkel We are all collectively experiencing the proverbial “nightmare” scenario: a healthcare and business crisis [i.e. COVID-19] that got here in a flash and left us in a social distancing experiment. While change was forced upon us, I believe some of it will be positive moving forward. Classifieds Blogs Whatever Happened to the Prediction of a Mass Extinction of Security Dealers? By Tim Palmquist The world is rife with apocalyptic predictions. Johannes Stöffler, a respected 16th century German mathematician and astrologer, predicted that a great flood would cover the earth on February 25, 1524. Technology @ Work Devon House in London Chooses Custom Turnstiles for Lobby Security Devon House at St. Katharine Docks, an office building in London’s East Side, has installed a TQM manual revolving door at the main entrance, in addition to two arrays of Speedlane Swing optical turnstiles to increase lobby security. Coronavirus Coverage SafeCity Program Implementing Free Video Surveillance Monitoring During COVID-19 SafeCity is a community focused program dedicated to fostering the safety, revitalization and continued growth of local business corridors in Savannah, Georgia. Video cameras are being placed in strategic locations throughout the community and access to this footage will be offered for free and made available to participants during the Covid-19 health crisis. Securing America Intrusion Detection Completed at U.S. Power Generation Sites PureTech Systems Inc. announced that deployment of its PureActiv wide area intrusion detection software system was successfully completed at multiple power generation sites in the U.S. SDM Newswire Podcast: Security in the Time of COVID-19 In the past month, the COVID-19 pandemic has completely changed life as we know it. So how are security businesses coping? In this exclusive roundtable, we speak with John Loud, CEO of Loud Security; Bert...