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Skyhawk acquires IT firm
October 2, 2013Leif Kothe
BATON ROUGE, La.—As more panels go IP in businesses and homes, security companies are continuing to see the allure of bringing some IT minds in-house.Skyhawk Security, whose core security offering is video monitoring for 150 commercial clients, is the latest to act on that instinct. Skyhawk, based here, acquired Baton Rouge-based IT firm Big Networks in a move that presents some potentially robust cross-selling opportunities for the newly merged company, now called Skyhawk Group.Through the...
Skyhawk Security completes acquisition
September 25, 2013Leif Kothe
In another illustration of the industry's evolution, Baton Rouge La.-based Skyhawk Security, which offers remote video monitoring, IP camera systems and access control systems for commercial customers (most in Louisiana, but some as distant as California), acquired local IT firm Big Networks. With the purchase of the firm's assets and intellectual property, the Skyhawk Group (the name of the merged company) will have an in-house IT unit to supplement its security offerings.
The move establishes an...