If you have a security system at your place of business, then you've experienced at least one false alarm. A false alarm here and there...

Implied by the analysis of five million passwords for SplashData's list of Worst Passwords of The Year, it doesn't matter how many news alerts we humans hear or read about hackers because most people still will not change their passwords to something harder than "password" or the name of their favorite sports team, to out two of the list of easiest-to-hack offenders. From our vantage point as security integrator experts, we know that people will still buy certain brands of

News media outlet reporting may have shifted focus to other topics lately besides school shootings, and hotly debated social media posts...

You've heard it a hundred times: change the batteries in your smoke detector! So, have you done it yet? We won't nag you about it (though it is important), instead we'd like to ask you something you may not have heard a hundred times: do you know what kind of smoke detector you have? The answer is, for most home owners, probably not. Moreover, is it important to know? Well, yes, it is because the type of smoke detector you have, and the sensor it contains inside, detects