Award-winning, cyber-secure, fully-wireless, versatile, fully-integrated, and seamless - this is where smart-home functionality achieves its objectives as DSC recently unveiled to us this past week in an exclusive training session on the sleek powerhouse hub called iotega. Fully capable of supporting up to 128 smart devices and 66 Z-Wave and Z-Wave Plus devices, including home security and smart thermostat integration on the Alarm.com platform, with the iotega true smart-home

Like most businesses in service, we used to have our fleet of company vans decorated with beautiful wrapping of our logo, contact information, and nice graphics. Then, we did the unexpected: we removed it all. Our fleet is now all white and unmarked. Why? Because our customers requested that we be discreet about their new security measures. We thought about it, and we knew that it would mean less "free advertising" for GenX Security Solutions, but we put our customers first.

Hikvision, one of our GenX Security Superior Brand partners, headquartered in the Chinese city of Hangzhou, recently announced that it achieved the U.S. Government Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 140-2 Level 1 certification, an encryption standard created by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). FIPS 140-2 establishes the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) as a joint effort by the National Institute of Standards and Technol

It's Time to Get Up to Date on These Recent Changes to Alarm Notification Requirements! There have been several changes over the past few years regarding fire alarm notifications. Fire-safety expert Shane Clary contributed his expertise on the topic to Security Sales & Integration and we are covering the must-know highlights here. While the information shared is pretty technical and not what the average end-consumer of alarm technology would know, we have broken it down into

A new forecast on the home and commercial security system market has been released by Business Wire showing a substantial increase in installation and integration of new security technology across all sectors through 2023, with one major reason being the trend of rapidly growing urbanization. While the full report entitled "Home Security System Market by Home Type, System Type, Offering, and Geography - Global Forecast to 2023" is available from researchandmarkets.com, we've