Check with your state regarding licensing and training requirements to become a security technician. Complete ESA’s Certified Alarm Technician Level 1 training to gain foundational skills. Determine a specialization. Take advanced training classes. Take continuing education classes. Check State...
Financial management is one of the main foundational principles for small businesses success. Effective bookkeeping; making projections based on data; accurately interpreting financial statements and learning how to finance business needs leads to logically sound business decisions. Part of financial...
Overall wellness has seemed to take a sidecar alongside security — keeping people, buildings/facilities, homes, and possessions safe and secure while ensuring a healthy environment. Propelled into existence by COVID’s global pandemic and the aging population, this trend is building momentum...
When ESA Member, SECURalert — a company that has been designing, testing and manufacturing radio frequency (RF) solutions since 1993 and is currently known for their enterprise wireless panic button system to protect workers in duress — was recently called upon to create a cost-effective, highly accurate...
When the emergency executive orders (EO) from mayors, county executives and governors began last March, many businesses closed their doors or migrated to remote workplaces. This changed the economic paradigm for electronic security and life safety businesses in a monumental way. Technicians had difficulty performing...
In 2019, the Electronic Security Association Board of Directors made the decision to sunset its Chartered Chapter program. This put in motion a need to update and restructure the Board of Directors that reflects not only best practices for nonprofit...
Can you name this successful woman in the electronic security and life safety industry? She …. … worked as a waitress and bartender in Vermont. … raised three daughters and two sons, and created two prosperous businesses. … began her...
Join your community of security professionals at the ESX 2021 Virtual Experience, the only national event dedicated to networking and educational opportunities for the professionally installed and monitored electronic security and life safety industry. Hosted by the Electronic Security Association (ESA), the 14th Annual ESX exhibition will take place June...
Memories are powerful in that they evoke emotions in the present that were formerly felt and allow for time travel back into the past to experience events that once took place. On behalf of all of us here at ESA...
Out of an abundance of concern for the well-being of our community, with many variables beyond our control, we believe moving forward with an in-person event in Louisville would not be in the best interest of the health and safety of the...