Business security

Understanding Access Control in Educational Settings

Every school administrator is tasked with figuring out how to keep students safe, but staff, parents, and visitors need to be able to get to where they need to be every day. Unfortunately, old-school lock-and-key systems can’t offer the level of security needed now.

Schools face unique security challenges, including multiple entry points, high traffic, former employee access concerns, and emergency lockdown requirements. Modern solutions, like access control systems, address these concerns, offer 24/7 oversight, and can deliver immediate alerts to emergency response teams.
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3 Places Advanced Video Monitoring Can Protect Your Business

Most businesses have security cameras, but cameras alone don’t prevent incidents from happening. They record events, leaving business owners and property managers to deal with the aftermath of theft, vandalism, trespassing, or property damage.
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How a Certified Monitoring Center Can Save Your Business in an Emergency

Emergencies are unpredictable. A break-in after business hours, a fire in the middle of the night, or a water leak over a long weekend can quickly become costly if no one responds right away. While a commercial security system is designed to detect these events, it’s only one part of the equation.

A professionally staffed, 24/7 monitoring center ensures every alarm is received, evaluated, and acted upon as quickly as possible. But not all monitoring centers operate to the same standards. Here’s why the quality of your monitoring provider, and the certifications they hold, can make a meaningful difference when every second counts.

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How Advanced Video Monitoring Helps First Responders During Emergencies

When an emergency occurs, first responders often have limited information before they arrive on scene. An alarm signal may indicate that something is wrong, but it doesn’t always provide details about what is happening or what responders should expect when they get there.

Advanced Video Monitoring (AVM) helps bridge that information gap by providing real-time video verification during designated monitoring periods. By delivering additional context about an incident, AVM can help support more informed emergency response and improved situational awareness.

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Why Backup Communications Are Critical for Commercial Security Systems

Your security system can have the most advanced sensors, cameras, alarms, and monitoring suite to bring it all together, but if it’s unable to communicate with the monitoring center when something goes wrong, you’re in trouble.

For professionally monitored commercial security systems reliable communication with the monitoring center is essential. When an alarm is triggered, the system must be able to transmit the signal quickly so the appropriate response can begin.

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Top Questions to Ask Before Signing on with a Commercial Security Provider

Choosing a commercial security provider is one of the most important decisions you will make for your business. Not all security companies are built equally, and this is something to watch out for as you’re shopping for a security company to use. The good ones, for example, should offer transparency around monitoring, service, and system ownership, as well as ongoing support.
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Security for Multi-Site Businesses: Managing Access, Alarms & Video Across Locations

Managing security for one location is hard enough, but when you find yourself responsible for multiple sites spread across different cities or states, the complexity starts to multiply. Multi-location businesses face challenges that standalone businesses do not. You need to determine how to maintain systems and consistent protection when you can’t be at every location.
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How We Use Customer Feedback (and NPS) to Deliver Better Security Service

A strong security service depends on more than technology. It requires a provider to understand customer needs and continuously improve how service is delivered. Customer feedback plays a key role in how American Alarm evaluates and refines its service. One of the tools we use is Net Promoter Score (NPS), which helps us measure how customers feel about their experience and identify opportunities to improve.
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Environmental Hazards Real Estate Businesses Experience (And How to Protect Against Them)

Property managers and real estate professionals face a unique challenge in trying to keep their properties protected. How do you protect dozens, or even hundreds of properties from environmental hazards when you can’t physically be at all of them at once?

The goal is to keep track of all of your properties while weighing the physical and financial harms that could stack up due to hazards. Problems like burst pipes in the winter leading to water damage, sewer leaks, carbon monoxide or even excessive heat in the summer are all issues that need to be monitored at your properties.
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Protecting Your Small Business During Snowstorms

When a major winter storm is about to hit, as a business owner it is tough to know if you should close your business for the day and stay home, or to risk the potentially dangerous drive over to your business to protect it from any winter weather threats.

There are a few things that could go wrong, such as power outages, frozen pipes, roof damage, break-ins and fire risks that cause on average 64.8 billion dollars per year (per the National Centers for Environmental Information). You need to make sure that your business stays safe and operationally ready.
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