This year I had the privilege of speaking at Security Industry Association’s The Advance, the association’s annual meeting, at ISC West 2022 in Las Vegas.

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The need to detect crime and other anomalies has driven the creation of ever-improving video surveillance systems, sensors, and other physical security components, enabling us to take appropriate actions as we see fit and follow events as they unfold.

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We are hearing about the supply chain every day — not just in our industry, but everywhere. Our backlogs keep growing and it is obvious the problem isn’t going away any time soon.

The security industry can expect a paradigm shift in the upcoming years: the move from on-premises security solutions to hosted methods for access control and video surveillance. In terms of revenue streams, redundancy, and user experience, this shift is immensely positive. It also comes with its own implications and questions.

I was meeting with a colleague recently and they asked the question, “What’s the hardest part of your job?” My response was, “It’s lonely at the top.”

For a long time in the physical security industry, there were two camps: the alarm company — based on RMR, and the integrator — based on large onsite systems.

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