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Security Market Index: January 2019 Edition
Provided to SIA members as a review of current market conditions, the January 2019 Security Market Index shows the security industry holding steady into 2019. General optimism about current business conditions and steady increases in new product sales, introductions and production keep the index at 65, the same as in November 2018.
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SIA Member Profile: NVT Phybridge
Security Industry Association (SIA) member NVT Phybridge is a leader in long-reach power over ethernet (PoE). The company works to help organizations achieve simple, secure and cost-effective modernization to IP and the Internet of Things (IoT). NVT Phybridge is headquartered in Ontario, Canada, serves the United States and Canada and has teams dedicated to serving…
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Industry Fundamentals: Current State, Defects, Gaps and Journey (Member-Created Resource)
SIA member company Securicon, in partnership with D6 Research, commissioned the first installment in a three-part white paper series, Industry Fundamentals: Current State, Defects, Gaps and Journey.
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Employee Hiring Tip: Questions NOT to Ask in an Interview
The security industry, like any other, faces hiring challenges, and identifying, engaging, recruiting and hiring the best talent available is critical to fueling future strategic growth plans. A key component of the hiring process is asking the right questions in interviews (and avoiding asking the wrong questions). State laws vary widely regarding what you can and…
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New Member Profile: OutSecure
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member OutSecure is a cybersecurity strategy creation and implementation company headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, with offices in Europe and India. The company works to help clients protect their critical assets, build security into their products and systems based on industry standards, provide management with objective proof to shareholders that they…
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Offering More With Your Security Installs
Most dealers are familiar wireless intrusion detection devices – motion detectors and door/window transmitters, and the like – and understand the advantages of wireless. Because wireless eliminates the labor costs running of cable and trenching, the economic advantages are clear. Likewise, wireless avoids the difficulties presented by traditional hardwiring. Wireless devices can be simply mounted…
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Interview Questions to Make Your Company’s Hiring Process Better
The security industry, like any other, faces hiring challenges, and identifying, engaging, recruiting and hiring the best talent available is critical to fueling future strategic growth plans. A key component of the hiring process is asking the right questions in interviews. Good interview questions should encompass several areas if they are to be useful in…
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New Member Profile: PetroCloud
New Security Industry Association (SIA) member PetroCloud is a technology leader of cloud-based solutions providing automation, monitoring and security to the energy and critical infrastructure industries. PetroCloud is headquartered in Irving, Texas, with offices in Midland, Texas, and Bakersfield, California. SIA spoke with Clay Hendon, director of business development at PetroCloud, about the company, the…
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Security Megatrends: The 2019 Vision for the Security Industry
Security Megatrends, an annual publication of the Security Industry Association, analyzes and forecasts the major trends affecting security industry businesses. The publication captures a vision of the industry’s future and distills key trends that will impact your organization in the coming year.
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Security Industry Association Announces 2018 RISE Scholarship Winners
Six Young Security Professionals to Be Awarded Funds to Support Their Professional Development Goals SILVER SPRING, Md. – The Security Industry Association (SIA) has selected six young professionals employed at SIA member companies to receive the 2018 SIA RISE Scholarship, an initiative through SIA’s RISE networking group for young security professionals. The RISE Scholarship program…
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