Tag: Drones
Binghamton University unifies campus safety tools with Genetec
June 13, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
MONTRÉAL — Genetec recently worked with Binghamton University, a nationally recognized research institution and one of the four university centers of the State University of New York (SUNY) system, to implement its Genetec Security Center platform.
Spread across 930 acres with over 120 buildings and four locations, Binghamton University was facing increasing challenges with its legacy security infrastructure, which consisted of siloed video, access control, intrusion detection,...
Drone executive orders ‘an important step to increase homeland security,’ expert says
June 11, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A pair of executive orders issued by the White House on June 6 purport to “Restore American airspace sovereignty” and “Unleash American drone dominance.”
The orders direct the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to, among other things, “expand drone operations by enabling routine ‘Beyond Visual Line of Sight’ drone operations for commercial and public safety missions, and to accelerate the development, testing, and scaling...
A view to a kill
June 11, 2025SSN Staff
Drones are in the news this week, and while not as much as some other topics, I had a fool’s hope that they would remain separate.
They didn’t obviously, but we’ll get there. Last week the White House issued two executive orders aimed at expanding commercial and public safety use of drone operations domestically and establishing a drone task force to evaluate drone threats. That preceding sentence is as innocent as it could possibly be written and if you can’t...
To-go order
January 15, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
This week on Monitoring Matters, the threat of prison violence delivered hot and ready in 30 minutes or less, or else it’s free.
At least that’s the concern according to a pair of watchdogs keeping tabs on a pair of England high-security prisons. In a report by the BBC, Chief Inspector of Prisons Charlie Taylor told government officials that weapon smuggling using drones was now commonplace thanks to a lax airspace being maintained above the maximum-security facilities.
While the...
Drones fly into 2025: ‘A standard and critical threat vector’
January 13, 2025Ken Showers, Managing Editor
STERLING, Va. — As much a tool for security as disruption, drones rocketed into the public view at the end of 2024, and the experts at Dedrone have insights on the implications of that for the future.
Whether it was swarms of mysterious drones spotted over New Jersey, seen over U.S. Airforce bases in England, or witnessed near critical infrastructure, the threat of drones has become apparently clear. Worries of clandestine operations have even led federal officials to blacklist the...
Living in interesting times
December 31, 2024Ken Showers, Managing Editor
If you’re reading this, congratulations! You made it to 2025, and that means you get to set about fulfilling whatever resolutions you’ve made.
Time to hit the gym, or pick up that instrument, you know, all the classics. One of my personal resolutions this year is covering news in the security industry that gets overlooked or receives less consideration among other more popular topics. I was inspired by our 2025 predictions article where Stephen Burd, vice president of Essence Security,...
SSN interview with ADT Commercial President Dan Bresingham
September 25, 2023Ken Showers, Managing Editor
DALLAS – Security Systems News (SSN) spoke with ADT Commercial President Dan Bresingham at GSX about its sale to private equity firm GTCR and what comes next for them.
This interview has been edited for length.
SSN: Can you tell us what you have going on for GSX this year, Maybe tell us a little bit about the recent big news you had.
DAN BRESINGHAM: Yeah, we've had a great run. So, we've kind of created ADT Commercial back in 2020. That was our birthday...
SIA issues response to North Carolina substation attacks
December 7, 2022SSN Staff
SILVER SPRING, Md. – Following attacks on a pair of substations in Moore County, N.C., that left thousands without power, Security Industry Association (SIA) Utilities Advisory Board Chair Joey St. Jacques has issued a statement.
In a LinkedIn post, St. Jacques wrote that, “The Dec. 3 incident in which gunfire damaged substations and cut off power to tens of thousands of North Carolina residents is a reminder that threats to critical energy infrastructure are a constant concern....
Batteries Not Included
September 21, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
When you clicked on this blog today you probably thought I was going to talk about data breaches or cyberattacks, but the joke's on you. That’s right, I refuse to beat that dead horse another week, the cyber-meltdown is taking time off. I’m talking about robots.
Well artificial intelligence, drones, and robots to be precise! The next big thing in the security industry, allegedly. It’s hard not to see it everywhere with A.I. and machine learning algorithms built into data...
Airspace control “a must have” - SSN chat with 911 Security CEO Robert Tabbara
August 26, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor
DALLAS – Drones have exploded in popularity and represent both a threat and an opportunity. Security Systems News recently talked with 911 Security CEO Robert Tabbara regarding the drone security market.
Around the world drones have risen to perform every function from eviscerating tanks on the battlefield in Ukraine to delivering packages to our front doors effortlessly. In the security world drones bolster physical security forces with sweeping patrol patterns using the...