Pinkerton, a global provider of security and risk management services and solutions, is helping to showcase the rich history of women in the security industry —dating back to the first woman private investigator Kate Warne, a 19th century Pinkerton— by sponsoring a documentary shining a light on this pivotal part of the industry’s legacy.

Genetec, the global leader in enterprise physical security software, today announced that it continues to lead the global video surveillance software market, according to newly published reports from independent industry analyst firms, Omdia and Novaira Insights.

Hailo, the leading chipmaker of edge AI processors, is pleased to announce the appointment of Max Glover as the company’s Chief Revenue Officer (CRO).

With over two decades of experience leading global sales and go-to-market organizations in the semiconductor and technology sectors, Max joins Hailo at a pivotal moment as the company scales to meet rapidly growing demand for edge AI solutions.

Selling your security, alarm, or integration business is a major decision that can significantly impact your financial future. Unfortunately, many owners make costly mistakes before and during the transactional process which negatively impacts their company’s value or causes the deal to fall apart entirely.  Let’s identify five of these common mistakes:

This article marks a year in which I’ve been spotlighting security business owners who have bravely pulled back the curtain—shared what’s keeping them up and how they’ve risen to meet those pressures with clarity, grit, and strategy. As we continue to move forward in this series, this month, I spoke with Kasia Hanson, CEO and Founder of KFactor Global.  

The goal with all of our staff was to facilitate a view where they saw the organization as a business, not just a paycheck.  As the owner, it can be easy to fall into the silo of what my daily responsibilities are and not stay on the front-end of our staff’s development.   But that development of their understanding of how a business works, notably the challenges and opportunities inherent within it, are invaluable.

Tornados, hurricanes, flooding, forest fires— these natural disasters aren’t rare “acts of God” anymore. When you build strength in from day one, keep people informed, and follow a calm, practiced playbook, a scary weather week can become a loyalty moment instead of a scramble.

Anecdotally, the frequency in these displays of nature’s fury is noticeably more often than even a decade ago. Coastal towns still watch the tropics, but inland neighborhoods now look at flash flood alerts, power-grid strain, or hazy orange skies from fires hundreds of miles away.

In last month’s introductory article of this series, we explored how understanding your prospect’s personality type can transform your sales approach. Now, let’s take a closer look at the first—and perhaps most intense—personality type: the Driver.

Audrey Pierson’s latest series, How to Win Over Every Personality Type, focuses on the unspoken truth every sales professional faces – perceived value is different from one individual to the next.  In this series, Audrey presents how properly aligning the sales process to each category of personality type is crucial in the advancement of a deal through the sales process.

Over the last several months, I’ve continued to share stories from business owners who are candidly opening up about what’s keeping them awake and the strategies they’re using to face those challenges head-on. This month I spoke with Stan Matysiak, Founder and President of the AiN Group.