This year, GSX+ 2020 is a fully virtual experience that includes education sessions, a virtual exhibit hall, and tons of networking opportunities.
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Back to Business: Establishing a Safe and Secure Return to the Workplace
While security organizations around the world are eager to get back to business, months of stay-at-home mandates have created a workforce who may be anxious or even reluctant to return to physical workplaces in the post-pandemic world.
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The Benefits of Using Automation to Manage Your Security Workforce
Even before the COVID-19 crisis caused a rise in interest for technology by which processes or procedures are performed with minimal human assistance, interest in automation was high when it came to “contactless technology.”
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What TrackTikers Have to Say: Sarah Evans, Client Success Manager
This month we sat down with TrackTik Client Success Manager Sarah Evans to talk about what a day in the life of a CSM looks like, how her job has changed during the pandemic and what makes her proud to be part of the TrackTik team.
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Top Tips You Need to Know About Being a Security Manager
You’ve embarked on a career in the security space, now what? First of all, chances are that everyone took a slightly different path to get here considering that there is not a predetermined how-to in the industry.
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7-Point Safety Checklist for Security Guards
The pandemic has impacted virtually every industry in the U.S. including the professional security services industry. Since the start of the pandemic, security officers have been on the frontline, providing essential services in difficult circumstances, increasing their occupational risk of COVID-19 exposure due to their frequent interactions with the public as part of their routine…
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4 Ways to Justify Your Security Budget in the New Normal
Despite the daily reminders of increased security here and around the world, justifying your security budget in the new normal may not be as easy or straightforward as it looks. Typically, security operations have been one of the most common departments scrutinized when the annual budget review comes around.
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Private Security, Jonathan Wild, and Gin: A Brief History of the Private Security Industry
While the rapid growth of the private security industry is generally thought to be a twentieth-century phenomenon, the emergence of private and public policing might well be traced back to the UK of the 18th century. It’s 1730 and a pint of gin is cheaper than a pint of beer.
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Lightening the Load: Changing Attitudes towards Private Security
Whether they’re standing guard at the 24-hour grocery store, screening your carry-on at O’Hare, or accompanying Meghan Markle and her dogs on a walk through a forest of Douglas fir trees, private security guards have been a common sight all over the world for decades. And while the private security industry has changed over the…
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Introducing TrackTik 360
TrackTik’s 360 degree approach focuses on delivering the best possible solutions and offers added value to our security organizations and their clients by building relationships with strategic partners that offer a wide range of technology solutions to extend the power of TrackTik products and help you run smarter businesses. With TrackTik’s 360 solution, you’ll be…
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Switching Gears from Planning and Prevention to Pivoting
With private security companies and their teams of security officers being called upon to provide additional security and support to assist law enforcement, the security industry is quickly pivoting from planning and prevention to response.
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The Changing of the Guard
In recent months, there has been a sudden shift in the demand for security services—to the point where security personnel are now, most likely, the first person you interact with when you go to supermarkets, drugstores, or hospitals. This is just one example of how frontline security has changed during the first half of 2020.…
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