Motorola Illegitimate Body Cam Award From Frost & Sullivan
Frost & Sullivan awards are well established as illegitimate - effectively paid for, with negligible actual diligence. By contrast,...
Frost & Sullivan awards are well established as illegitimate - effectively paid for, with negligible actual diligence. By contrast,...
Online outlet American Security Today's "Homeland Security" program awarded 177 products, more than even the 153 ones nominated, and despite its...
By Joyce Ho - over 1 year ago
ASIS CEO Peter O'Neil made $656,219 in total compensation for the most recently reported 12-month period while ASIS metrics (membership, revenue,...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
A viral LinkedIn thread by an ASIS CPP holder sparked serious criticisms of ASIS with 89% of 463 respondents voting that ASIS is focused on money...
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
Security integrators periodically report on their favorite and worst products to IPVM. These are known integrators who IPVM pays to answer surveys....
By John Honovich - over 1 year ago
While manufacturers have historically given away, plane rides, cruises, and expensive dinners, are they as generous as in the past? Which...
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The CES show has added an Orwellian disclaimer that it does not 'endorse' the products it gives awards to, following IPVM criticizing CES for...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - over 3 years ago
Fever detection was a booming, comical, and dangerous market in 2020. While the market has now mostly busted, a new entrant has won a CES award for...
By John Honovich and Zach Segal - over 3 years ago
The "OSPAs" promised to be credible, transparent, and respectable. They have failed on all accounts for 'security equipment...
By John Honovich - over 3 years ago
Frost 'awards' are well-known and widely disrespected. Now Briefcam is touting their win. The way it has worked for many years is that Frost...
By John Honovich - almost 5 years ago
A sad but simple situation: Only 2 companies paid SIA the thousands of dollars required to compete for the best new 'cameras IP' The judges...
By John Honovich - about 5 years ago
The inaugural IPVM Best New Product Awards has been opened - the industry's first and only program where the awards are not pay-to-play and the...
By IPVM Team - over 5 years ago
IPVM is launching its own Best New Video Surveillance Product Awards in 2019. The goal is to provide the industry with a legitimate program, based...
By John Honovich - over 5 years ago
The US Congress has authorized the School Violence Prevention Program (SVPP) to fund various security measures and training to mitigate active...
One of the largest intrusion manufacturers, Nortek, has acquired the self-proclaimed 'Leader in AI-Based Video Analytics Software',...
ISC West's "Best In Show" has failed. For more than a decade, it has become increasingly irrelevant as the selections exhibit a cartoon level...
Arecont is facing big problems. But Arecont says the future is 'bright'. In this note, we share feedback from Arecont and from sources close to...
The Outstanding Security Manufacturer finalists (US edition) are here: And if you are wondering, "How did those 3 get chosen?" then you are...
By John Honovich - over 6 years ago
The trade show stunts continue, though this one purports to be 'credible' and 'respectable'. The Outstanding Security Performance Awards (OSPAs)...
By John Honovich - over 7 years ago
Security industry awards are nonsense. This is not news. From pay to promote Frost awards to trade show fluff awards to trade mag awards, media...
For the first time, a physical security industry award has been chosen by the people. Rather than constrain voting to a closed group of insiders,...
By Ben Wood - over 10 years ago
Just when you think awards couldn't get any stupider, a US trade magazine, GSN, steps up the plate with the most dumbfounding video...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
The least respected award in all of surveillance - BRS Labs has now bought won it. When struggling manufacturers need a shot of fake authenticity,...
By John Honovich - over 11 years ago
A new report projects the Physical Security Information (PSIM) market to be worth $2.79 Billion USD - a shockingly high number for a market that...
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