Familiar Faces Return To ESA’s Board In New Capacities

Familiar Faces Return To ESA’s Board In New Capacities

Steve Firestone and Jamie Vos Continue to Serve Association The Electronic Security Association recently installed Jamie Vos, President of Security Solutions Northwest and Steve Firestone, CEO Firestone Strategies Group on its new Board of Directors.  The purpose of a director...
Meet ESA’s 2022 Youth Scholarship Winners

Meet ESA’s 2022 Youth Scholarship Winners

The electronic security industry works closely with the public safety sector, and we greatly appreciate the contributions that police, firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs offer to our communities.  To show our appreciation, the ESA Youth Scholarship program was developed to provide...
What Makes A Great Monitoring Center?

What Makes A Great Monitoring Center?

Customers rely on monitoring centers for daily operations and peace of mind. When looking for a monitoring partner, one of the most prominent and crucial factors to evaluate is if they heavily invest in their facilities' continued advancement and modernization....
Ken Kocher of Force Security Solutions Appointed To Join FAST Board Of Directors

Ken Kocher of Force Security Solutions Appointed To Join FAST Board Of Directors

Ken Kocher of Force Security Solutions has been selected by The Foundation for Advancing Security Talent (FAST) to join the nine-member board of directors drawn from the membership of the Electronic Security Association (ESA) and the Security Industry Association (SIA)...
Uncompromising Storage with a WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive

Uncompromising Storage with a WD Purple Surveillance Hard Drive

WD Purple drives are engineered specifically for surveillance to help withstand the elevated heat fluctuations and equipment vibrations within NVR environments. An average desktop drive is built to run for only short intervals, not the harsh 24/7 always-on environment of a...
Together, We Can!

Together, We Can!

By John Loud, ESA Chairman I am honored to have been elected to serve as the 2022-2024 Chairman of the Board for the Electronic Security Association. ESA has and always will be a place for the security professionals and vendors...
Eric Garner on Climbing a Mountain Called Success

Eric Garner on Climbing a Mountain Called Success

The schooling of Eric Garner on his family’s business — Ogden, Utah-based Mountain Alarm, which is celebrating its 70th anniversary this year — began as a pre-teen in the late 1990s. While on a summer road trip he recalls among...
Join the ESA Fantasy Football League

Join the ESA Fantasy Football League

The 2022 NFL Football Season is Upon Us! Get in on the competition by joining ESA's Members-Only Fantasy Football League!   This icebreaker to enhance peer-to-peer friendships within the electronic security and life safety industry will allow you the ability...
Smart Money Is On Smart Apartments

Smart Money Is On Smart Apartments

By Jake Voll, President of SS&Si Dealer Network  Between 1985 and 1998, Network Multifamily Security Corporation amassed approximately 200,000 alarm monitoring subscribers. Then in 1998, Protection One acquired Network Multifamily for $180 million.  How did Network Multifamily add so many...
Planting Seeds for Improved Legislative Engagement in 2023

Planting Seeds for Improved Legislative Engagement in 2023

For several years now ESA has collaborated on a number of key legislative issues with a consortium of connected technology associations and companies. This collaboration included issues we previously highlighted such as the proposed ordinance in Houston that would have...