SecurityInfoWatch: The Digital News Hub of the Security Industry
SecurityInfoWatch, online at securityinfowatch.com, is the leading digital news source for the physical and electronic security industry in the United States. Operated by Endeavor Business Media from Nashville, Tennessee — today a division of EndeavorB2B — it delivers breaking news, in-depth analysis and original reporting for security executives, systems integrators, consultants, service providers and manufacturers. Founded in 2004, it has grown into the online home of two established print brands, Security Business and Security Executive magazines, and the anchor of a security media group that the publisher has described as reaching more than 650,000 security professionals a month across its websites and magazines.
Founded in 2004 as a Digital-First Security Source
SecurityInfoWatch was founded in 2004, at a moment when the security industry's information habits were moving online and when post-2001 investment was transforming physical security from a facilities function into a technology-driven profession. Building a digital-first brand allowed it to cover product launches, company moves and policy developments at news speed for a geographically scattered industry of integrators, dealers, consultants and end users. Its About page summarises the result: a reputation for trusted, independent journalism and a standing as a voice of authority in the security sector. Unlike many trade websites that began as companions to a single magazine, SecurityInfoWatch became the umbrella under which print titles were later organised.
The Endeavor Security Group
SecurityInfoWatch is operated by Endeavor Business Media, headquartered in Nashville and formed in 2017 to acquire and operate business media brands, events and marketing solutions; the company has grown into one of the largest B2B media companies in the United States, with more than 700 employees and a database of over 12 million business professionals across sectors from aviation and buildings to manufacturing, public safety and transportation. Within Endeavor, the Security Group comprises SecurityInfoWatch.com — with its breaking news, original content, product coverage, webinars, e-newsletters and the Security DNA podcast — plus Security Business magazine and Locksmith Ledger magazine, described as the industry's only twelve-time monthly print publications, and the digital Security Technology Executive magazine. SecurityInfoWatch is the group's flagship and its daily face.
Security Business: A Lineage Back to 1972
The site's print sibling carries a long history. Security Business magazine, whose motto positions it as the path to greater profits for executives who lead security integration, consulting, installation and reseller businesses, was launched in 1972 as Security Dealer magazine. It expanded into a standalone monthly publication in 1978, kept the Security Dealer name for three decades, and added '& Integrator' in 2008 to become Security Dealer & Integrator, universally known as SD&I. In January 2019 it was renamed Security Business to reflect the changing environment of the security integration industry, with group publisher Nancy Levenson-Brokamp and editor-in-chief Paul Rothman presenting the change as a commitment to readers' profitability and business growth. SecurityInfoWatch serves as the magazine's online home, including its issue archives — a half-century print lineage feeding a digital news operation.
Security Executive and the End-User Audience
The group's second magazine, Security Executive, addresses the other side of the market: the C-level executives and senior security directors inside corporations and institutions who buy security technology and services. Each issue builds the business arguments for security investment through end-user case studies, consultant-contributed features and columns, expert roundtables and technology implementation articles written by consulting engineers. Hosting both titles under one portal lets SecurityInfoWatch cover a transaction completely — the integrator selling and installing a system, and the executive justifying and operating it — while its own reporting serves both audiences plus the manufacturers and consultants between them.
What the Site Covers
Editorially, SecurityInfoWatch spans the full spectrum of the industry: video surveillance, access control and identity, intrusion and perimeter, cybersecurity convergence with physical security, guard services and protective operations, and the business of security itself — strategy, risk management, mergers, product launches and channel economics. Its sections follow the working structure of the profession, with dedicated coverage for integrators and for security executives, and vertical attention to areas such as access control and biometrics. Original reporting is supplemented by multimedia: webinars, videos, podcasts, live event coverage and e-newsletters designed to keep readers connected to the conversations shaping the industry between major stories.
People and Editorial Leadership
The site's editorial identity has been built by long-serving security journalists. Joel Griffin, who joined SecurityInfoWatch as assistant editor in May 2008 after two years as a staff reporter at the Newton Citizen in Covington, Georgia, rose to editor-in-chief and covered the industry for well over a decade, becoming a familiar byline across its news and analysis. Steve Lasky, editorial director of the Endeavor security group and editor-in-chief of Security Technology Executive, hosts the Security DNA podcast series, interviewing figures from across security and intelligence — including, in a two-part conversation, a former federal law enforcement officer with more than 45 years of experience, on artificial intelligence, cyberwar and global terror risks. More recently, Endeavor announced Rodney Bosch as editor-in-chief of SecurityInfoWatch.com, tasking him with delivering the depth and breadth of coverage its audience expects.
Podcasts, Partnerships and Industry Conversations
The Security DNA podcast exemplifies the site's expansion beyond text: long-form interviews with practitioners and thinkers on the risks — cyber, geopolitical, technological — that increasingly define physical security work. Editorial partnerships extend that reach. Endeavor's security portfolio has formed a strategic editorial partnership with The Access Control Collective, led by access-control authority Lee Odess, under which the Collective provides expert analysis, event coverage and thought leadership across Endeavor's digital platforms, newsletters and print publications, including monthly executive Q&As and trend columns, while Endeavor's distribution widens the Collective's audience. For a portal whose readers span installers to chief security officers, such partnerships keep specialist depth flowing into general coverage.
Covering an Industry Redefined by Technology
SecurityInfoWatch's archive charts the industry's reinvention. Its reporting has asked whether the security industry is ready for autonomous AI and facial recognition, tracked surging demand for guard services in the wake of COVID-19, and followed integrators into new verticals — a 2018 SD&I cover story, for instance, examined security integrators finding revenue in the booming legal cannabis industry, with its large grow facilities and strict compliance demands. The recurring editorial question is convergence: cameras, credentials, networks and artificial intelligence dissolving the old line between physical and electronic security, and between security and IT. A portal organised around news speed and product intelligence is well built for that beat, and the site's coverage of emerging technologies and risk management reflects it.
Events, Archives and Professional Reach
Beyond daily publishing, the SecurityInfoWatch group's value lies in its accumulated resources: magazine issue archives for Security Business and Security Executive, Locksmith Ledger's companion site for the locksmith trade, product and company coverage searchable by practitioners, and newsletter programmes segmented by audience. The group has described its combined reach as America's leading security media audience at over 650,000 professionals monthly — a scale that makes the portal a default starting point for vendors announcing products and for professionals checking the state of their market.
Standing in Security Media
SecurityInfoWatch's position rests on combination: a digital newsroom founded in 2004, print brands reaching back to 1972, a Nashville-based B2B parent with national scale, and an audience covering every seat in the security transaction. For integrators it is a business journal; for executives, a justification toolkit; for manufacturers, a product showcase; for all of them, a daily wire. Published by Endeavor Business Media at securityinfowatch.com, it remains the online centre of gravity for the American physical security industry — the place where that industry reads its own news first.
