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IHS weighs in on smart home deals

Focus is shifting from hardware to software and platforms
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Spencer Ives
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04/03/2017
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LONDON—IHS Markit sees disruption in the professional smart home market; Blake Kozak, IHS’ principal analyst, smart home and security technology, talked with Security Systems News about recent smart home deals and what they mean for the industry.

The future of IoT: Taming security's wild west

TechSec 2017 panel discusses regulation and standardization in the Internet of Things
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Spencer Ives
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03/29/2017
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—A lot is being done when it comes to ensuring that IoT devices are cybersecure, integrated and valuable to end users. Five panelists at a TechSec Solutions session explored exactly what the industry is doing to rein in the technology.

How I Use My System: Joseph Mitton

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Spencer Ives
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03/22/2017
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When Joseph Mitton, Select Security’s director of marketing and communications, joined the company about six years ago, the company had around 80 people. Now, it has close to 200. Security Systems News talked with Mitton about the alarm system he uses.

What else can you do besides provide security solutions?

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Kenneth Z. Chutchian
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03/22/2017
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YARMOUTH, Maine—Integrators know they don’t have a choice. The days of impressing end users with bells and whistles are gone. Now more than ever, installation and application of security technologies confront the big question that turns another page in the industry—and is still as old as business itself: “Can this help us make money?”

Customers cyberaware, but not fully cyber-prepared

Protection 1 execs discuss today’s cybersecurity concerns and the company approach
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Spencer Ives
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03/20/2017
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ROMEOVILLE, Ill.—Protection 1, which operates its own Network Operations Center, is seeing a rise in customers separating their security network in order to stay more cybersecure. Security Systems News talked with several professionals at Protection 1 about how cyberaware end users are today and the similarities and differences in cyber- and physical security solutions

Drones and robots are headed to ISC West 2017

Unmanned security to be a topic in years to come as well
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Spencer Ives
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03/15/2017
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LAS VEGAS—Drones and robots will have a notable presence at ISC West 2017 with the show’s inaugural Unmanned Security Expo @ ISC West.

Mysteries of the cloud fading as benefits become clear

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Kenneth Z. Chutchian
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03/08/2017
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YARMOUTH, Maine—Talking points are in abundance when integrators try persuading customers to consider cloud-based storage and management solutions. Two themes, however, seem to resonate, and for different reasons.

TechSec 2017 panel: mining for gold with big data

Panelists discuss the current state of big data within the physical security industry
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Spencer Ives
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03/08/2017
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DELRAY BEACH, Fla.—Companies are starting to look at the data that is already being collected by various access control and video surveillance as an opportunity for additional services or RMR. A panel at TechSec Solutions 2017, held here Feb. 27 and 28, explored where the value is and how or where companies should get started.

How I Use My System: Richard Hill

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Spencer Ives
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03/07/2017
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Richard Hill was recently promoted to the role of chief marketing officer of DEFENDERS in December 2016. He joined the company in 2014 as its director of marketing. Security Systems News talked with Hill about his home security system.

Global biometrics market to grow at nearly 17 percent CAGR

North America to be largest sector to 2022
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Spencer Ives
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03/01/2017
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PUNE, India—Research firm MarketsandMarkets expects the global biometrics market to reach almost $33 billion by 2022, with North America being a large portion of the market.

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SSN News Poll August 2017

Millennials have been a continuing topic among industry educational sessions. Panels and presentations on the generation born between 1980 and 2000 have appeared at PSA-Tec 2017, Honeywell's Connect in November, and now ESX 2017. What's your perspective of millennials in the workplace?