Unveiling SSI’s Top 10 Stories of 2024
From Deep Dives to breaking news to hub pages and more, SSI’s top stories of 2024 left an impression with readers in different ways.
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Editor’s Note: We published this roundup of SSI’s top stories of 2024 on Dec. 10, 2024. Since then, we updated it as of Jan. 10, 2025.
We’ve been doing a lot of looking ahead to 2025 with our ongoing 2025 Security Industry Predictions series, but now it’s time to take a look back at some of our best work from the past 12 months, our top 10 stories of 2024, and share the insights from those popular pieces of online journalism.
There was something about all of our 10 top stories of 2024 that resonated with our readers, from deep dives to breaking news to columns to hub pages and more. Let’s take a closer look at what captured our readers’ attention most often in 2024.
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#10 Security Solutions Mergers and Acquisitions Flourish in 2023, Poised for Growth in 2024
We love when industry experts share their analysis with us and our readers to help them get a better understanding of what’s going on across the security landscape. Matt Hansen, a financial advisor and senior vice president with UBS Financial Services Inc., helped us understanding what’s driving the busy mergers and acquisitions market in this piece.
#9 SSI Announces 2024 SAMMY Award Winners
The SAMMY Awards, now in their 29th year, are among the most prestigious honors that a security systems company can earn. Here are the stories behind this year’s winning entries. Here’s hoping you used them to help you when it comes to winning a SAMMY in our 30th year of the program in 2025!
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#8 Security Industry Forecast: Experts Chime in, Sharing Expectations for 2024 and Beyond
As you make your way through out 2025 Security Industry Predictions series, make sure you check out the 2024 version to see how some of the brightest minds in the security industry did in predicting what would happen this year across the space.
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#7 Business Fitness: Business Asset Protection 101
Longtime SSI columnist Paul Boucherle says business leaders should avoid installing a “high diving board” manager to manage the “wading pool.” If you do, he promises that you won’t like the results. That’s the straightforward insight that earned it a spot among our top 10 stories of 2024.
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#6 Video Surveillance Deep Dive: Technology Widening in Numbers, Vertical Markets
SSI readers told us in our survey on the video surveillance sector that the increasing applications of artificial intelligence and cloud-based management and storage could lead to an explosion.
#5 SSI Announces 2024 Most Valuable Product (MVP) Award Winners
We shined a spotlight on some of the newest innovations in the security space with our annual presentation of the Most Valuable Product (MVP) Awards. We’re guessing you’re already using or will be using some, most or all of this year’s winners in your installations.
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#4 Johnson Controls Lost $27M and Corporate Data in September Ransomware Attack
Johnson Controls confirmed in its quarterly filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that the company lost $27 million in expenses and corporate data in the ransomware attack in which it was victimized in September.
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#3 Global Security Operations Centers: Trends and Opportunities in 2024 and Beyond
Our most popular Deep Dive of 2024 looked at some of the advancements in global security operations centers, illuminating the changing face of mission-critical environments and their evolving needs.
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#2 N.J. Officials Duped Into Using COVID Funds on Banned Dahua Surveillance Cameras
The year got off to an interesting start, when Packetalk’s CEO allegedly sold $35 million in video surveillance cameras to New Jersey officials after removing Dahua logos and changing the cameras’ colors to get around a ban on selling that brand in the U.S.
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#1 Central Station Monitoring: A Complete Guide
We compiled everything you could possibly want to know about central station monitoring in one place. If you haven’t checked it out yet, make sure you do so now. We’re constantly updating this hub page (and others we’ve put together about intrusion detection, National Security Technician Day and Security Gives Back) so bookmark them all and check back often to check out the latest news.
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About the Author
D. Craig MacCormack, Digital Editor
Craig MacCormack is a veteran journalist who joined Security Sales & Integration in June 2023 as digital editor. He covered AV, IT and security with SSI's sister publication, Commercial Integrator, from January 2011 to June 2021.
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