On Wednesday, June 22, 2022, the City of Rockwall ECC in Texas servicing the Cities of Rockwall, Fate & Heath became the 110th ECC in the United States and the 12th ECC in the state of Texas to implement the Automated Secure Alarm Protocol (ASAP). The Rockwall ECC went live on Wednesday, June 22nd with Rapid Response […]
Per Mar Security Services announced that Dory Retherford, Per Mar’s Monitoring Center Manager, has decided to retire as of July 1, 2022. Retherford has been a dedicated Per Mar employee for more than 42 years. In February of 1980, Retherford started working at Per Mar as a third shift dispatcher to gain experience in the […]
Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Ranking Member Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee Chair Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) announced today that the Consumer Protection and Commerce Subcommittee will hold a markup on Thursday, June 23, at 10:30 a.m. (EDT) in the John […]
The following information and analysis is being shared with TMA members courtesy of The Security Industry Association (SIA). Over the last week, SIA Government Relations has been collecting and analyzing feedback from their members on the bipartisan data privacy discussion draft under consideration in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (which was released June 3). […]
Proposed Data Privacy Bill Stands a Shot at Becoming First Comprehensive Federal Privacy Law A discussion draft of a comprehensive data privacy bill was released last Friday by a bipartisan group of legislators in the House and Senate. Consumer rights advocates say the proposed compromise legislation is the biggest step to date toward granting individuals […]
Three U.S. government agencies urged operators to patch their systems and take several other steps to boost security, warning state-sponsored attacks from China have been targeting routers within their networks since 2020. In a joint advisory, the National Security Agency (NSA), Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said attackers […]
The United States House of Representatives has just introduced a privacy bill that has been endorsed by the Chairman and Ranking Republican of the Energy and Commerce Committee and the Ranking Republican of the Senate Commerce Committee. The bill establishes rules for when and how data can be shared. We would also point out that […]
TMA’s proposed ANSI standard, TMA-AVS-01 – Alarm Verification Standard, is in the final week of a Preliminary Technical Review period. The next step in the ANSI standards development process is the 60-day public comment period. We currently anticipate this will begin July 5th. In line with this formal comment period, TMA’s Standards Committee has scheduled […]
NAPCO Security Technologies is pleased to share the news that its AirAccess® Access Control System, featuring automatic-networking via popular Napco StarLink® Cellular, has been chosen as the winner of the ESX Innovation Award 2022, for “Access Control/ID Systems in Access Control/ID System for Hosted / Managed Access”. AirAccess speeds creating new hosted access accounts faster, […]
The acquisition of Cassidy Technologies’ branches, in St. Paul, MN and Des Moines, IA, will continue to expand the AlarMax national, U.S. footprint. Roger Graf, President at AlarMax stated, “We are very happy to welcome Chris Johnson and the Cassidy Team into the AlarMax Family and are excited about our future together.” Cassidy Technologies customers […]
