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It’s not a vacation if you’re persistently preoccupied with what your team is doing, who has access to your buildings, and whether or not your facility is really, truly secured when you are miles and miles away. But integrated, intuitive security systems can assuage...

Security vendors overcharging for access control solutions continues to be a real concern for the property management industry. Achieving quality property management access control doesn’t have to – and shouldn’t – be this way. Here’s a fact: you can lower your...

Workspaces have been forever changed. (Thanks, pandemic.) Regardless, commercial properties remain a mainstay on the American and global landscape, and as restrictions continue to ease – many are taking huge strides in returning to business as usual. After a year and...

Whether you’re a property manager, a small business owner, or the facilitator of a commercial or industrial complex, keeping your eye trained on your assets, your employees, and your bottom line simultaneously is a 24-hour a day job. Imagine. Wouldn’t it be nice to…...

Property Managers must be many things to many people – and places. Tenants, tradesmen, and vendors rely on you to be a quick thinker who can remain calm during a crisis, and adaptable at all times. The buildings and properties you oversee demand a conscientious...

As a property manager, you have multiple buildings to oversee, and even more residents who rely on your quick judgment, and quicker response time. And yet the problem remains – you can’t be everywhere at once. Or can you? While cloud video surveillance for property...

Business owners: does this scenario sound at all familiar? You recently had to let one of your managers go, for one reason or another. In the process, you realized that there are far too many duplicate perimeter keys making the rounds at your workspace, which could...

Managing a multi-location business is not easy. Between different zip codes, different layouts, and different hardware, keeping everything running not just smoothly, but productively can be like ice-skating uphill. But there is a simple, straightforward, and easily...

Managed security solutions can be a godsend. They provide peace of mind for business owners and facility managers, who can keep their companies safe and secure without ever lifting a finger. Still, it bears repeating – before signing on the dotted line with a security...

Sad but true. So many of the big security providers view their clients as nothing more than a number. A means to an end to balance the books. Support for their security measures is virtually non-existent. And quality – well, the less said the better. It’s been a long...

Legacy security systems are often referred to as “traditional,” which is a nice way of saying “old,” “outdated,” “costly,” and occasionally even “dangerous.” When referring to “legacy” tools of any kind in any industry – people often cite pagers and/or beepers. Once a...

A business’s employees are, by far, its greatest asset – and its greatest champions. But without the proper security training for your team, they inadvertently pose a significant risk to both physical and cyber defenses, paving the way to breaches, break-ins,...

Some people ask us if there’s ever a good time to cease or pause video surveillance services. Throughout 2020, as the pandemic forced more and more workforces to operate from home, many business owners were left securing buildings and facilities that sat unoccupied...

While there are multiple tools and techniques available to achieve desired goals, the objectives of physical security remain exactly the same whether you’re setting up safeguards for a Top-Secret government safe room or the snack shop at the community pool. Physical...