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Selling Your Security Guard Company?

Enlisting a broker on your side ensures you know the market and make rational decisions

December 1, 2018

Deciding whether, when and for how much to sell a security guarding business that you’ve been building up over a period of decades has both financial and emotional ramifications.

2018 Guarding Report: Changing Times for the Guarding Industry

How enterprises are working to boost pay and training for security officers, in addition to considering options like K-9s and robots.

Ed Finkel

December 1, 2018

Traditional guarding is getting shaken up by new skills, services and technology. How are guarding firms and security officers shifting their priorities and offerings to keep pace and continue to add value to enterprises and security departments? It’s time to go beyond basic patrol, observe and report functions.

10 Essential Questions to Evaluate Visitor Management

Mary Probst

November 12, 2018

With millions of people going to work, attending concerts, and even students going back to school, a thought lingers in the back of their minds: Is the building, the venue, the school safe and secure?

Patient Attacks Hospital Security Officer with Scissors

October 29, 2018

A patient at TriStar Summit Medical Center in Hermitage, Tenn., was charged with aggravated assault after police say he cut a security officer at the hospital.

Why You’re Hearing “No:” Insurance Considerations for Security Firms Serving Schools

Tory Brownyard

October 16, 2018

As we reflect on the first anniversary of the Mandalay Bay shooting, it is sobering to consider the real risks facing any large group of people. A gathering of hundreds or thousands of people is vulnerable to attacks of violence and, unfortunately, over the past several years, we have seen that schools are also such targets.

Security Robots on Patrol

How a security robot, the first one employed in Arizona, acts as a visual deterrent as well as an information-gathering machine.

Diane Ritchey

October 8, 2018

Joe Gustafson likes to “think out of the box.” So when his team at the Twin Arrows Casino in Flagstaff, AZ, had a lull in staffing and needed solutions to assist security officers with their job duties, Gustafson asked for a security robot.

A Call for the Thin Purple Line

October 1, 2018

One of the most common and recognizable symbols for law enforcement support is the “Thin Blue Line.”

Combines Ergonomics and Operator Comfort

September 17, 2018

The new Impulse Dual Sit/Stand consoles from Winsted provide two independently adjustable, ergonomically curved work surfaces for security operators.

Dallas Transit Aims to Bolster Security with 61 New Officers

September 13, 2018

The Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) is planning to bolster security over the next five years, including a 77-percent spending increase in security services next year and adding 65 full-time salaried positions in 2018-2019, 61 of them police.

Primary Considerations and Pitfalls for Security Control Room Design

Developing an effective SOC requires more than just the streamlining of physical security systems

Dan Gundry

September 11, 2018

Though many security managers tend to have tunnel vision on the techy aspects of building a SOC, often the most important things to consider are the most basic and in a command center environment, that begins with an operator-centric design.