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2 weeks ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
ESX 2025 Set for June 16-19Take a closer look at what's in store for the event in Atlanta
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2 weeks ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
“The challenge with the tariffs is that it changes every day,” admitted Nico Delvaux, ASSA ABLOY CEO, during an April 23 earnings call. Recently, I have begun receiving email notifications about pending price increases. It doesn’t matter that the tariffs – on goods from China for sure, but also from the EU, UK, Canada and more – change by the day or even hour. At this point, companies need to act.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
Live from the show floor at ISC West 2025, Security Business Editor-in-Chief Paul Rothman meets with Actuate CEO Ken Francis to discuss the impact of AI on monitoring centers and their employees, technology integrations, and Actuate’s mission. Actuate, an AI surveillance software company founded in 2018, aims to transform security guard operations and reduce the frequency of false positives and nuisance alarms.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
In mid-December, private equity firm Triton announced it would acquire the security and communications technology product business from Bosch. And while the deal is still undergoing customary regulatory approvals and closings, the company pushed forward on the beginnings of an eventual rebranding from the Bosch name at ISC West.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
The Lower 900 MHz Band of spectrum is used by millions of part 15 devices, including alarm, electronic access, and security camera technologies to protect homes, small businesses, and critical infrastructure. A company called NextNav has petitioned the FCC to reconfigure the Lower 900 MHz band to grant them exclusive rights to the majority of the spectrum to create a terrestrial system that would serve as a backup to GPS in the United States.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
In the fast-paced world of business, measurement is everything. “We are all measured as a business,” says Shaun Castillo, President of Preferred Technologies (Pref-Tech). “Banks measure us. Investors measure us. Insurance companies measure us. Some customers even measure us.”It is impossible to quantify success and identify areas for improvement within a business without measurement.
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1 month ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
I seemed to have struck a chord with our readers last month when I made a simple post on Linkedin that was meant to just be some friendly advice:As I sift through MANY ISC West product press releases, I’m just going to give some unsolicited advice to all the security marketers out there: Remove the word“seamless” from your vocabulary. Every integration is described as “seamless” (even if it isn’t). It means nothing.
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2 months ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
In an industry recently marred by some overpromises when it comes to technological capabilities, a new player is emerging in the weapons detection field with a revolutionary technology approach. Cambridge Terahertz, a company born from MIT research, is pioneering the use of terahertz radar imaging technology to address the security challenge in a novel way.
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2 months ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
ISC West will feature more than 750 exhibitors, an expanded SIA Education@ISC program, a Main Stage keynote series, and a variety of special events and networking opportunities. Here’s a quick look at some of the highlights:The New Cyberthreat Landscape (April 2, 9 a.m.): Rachel Wilson, a former National Security Agency (NSA) executive and current cybersecurity leader at Morgan Stanley, will delve into the ever-evolving cyberthreat landscape.
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2 months ago | 
securityinfowatch.com | Paul Rothman
In early March, 61 security industry executives – a mixture of manufacturers, integrators, distributors, and association executives – held 73 meetings on Capitol Hill in one day as part of the third Security Hill Day, hosted by the Security Industry Association (SIA), with support from the Electronic Security Association (ESA) and The Monitoring Association (TMA). This now annual tradition promotes important policy priorities that affect the security and monitoring industries every day.
