Jeffrey Zwirn - Alarm Expert
Jeffrey Zwirn is the expert behind The Alarm Science Manual, the definitive treatise utilized by experts and laymen alike in the alarm and security industry. Zwirn's sweeping knowledge and authoritative position is backed by 40 years of experience in consulting and forensic investigating.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Security Researchers: Baby Monitors Prone to Hacking
With the help of Jeffrey Zwirn, the security
firm Rapid7 has discovered common security flaws with nine Internet-connected
baby video monitors. For example, the Philips brand assigns the same default
username and password to its monitoring cameras, meaning an uninitiated system
could be hacked into. As a result of the findings, Philips plans to address its
products’ vulnerabilities. Jeff Zwirn, who pens the “Security Science” column,
was on Fox News discussing baby video monitoring hacking vulnerabilities. Read
more about Rapid7's research and check out the video where Zwirn offers the
safest alternatives for baby monitors by clicking here.
Friday, March 4, 2016
Today’s Forensic Tips: Verifying Fire Alarms
Verifying Fire Alarms
Consider this scenario: You are
knowingly or unknowingly provided with a cellphone number for a residential
subscriber and the remote station receives a fire alarm signal. The central
station operator then calls the subscriber (cellphone rather than home number)
in an attempt to verify the signal. The operator is told by the subscriber not
to dispatch the fire department and/or to disregard the signal, but in
actuality the client is not at home. This could pose a risk to the alarm
company and/or central station for taking that instruction, even though they
thought the phone number called was located at the protected premises.
Additionally, alarm companies and/or
central stations should proactively warn the subscriber upfront and in writing
that if the subscriber is not at home, it would never be acceptable for the
subscriber to advise the central station to cancel or disregard any fire alarm
signal it receives.
Test your security knowledge and learn some more tips from Jeffrey Zwirnd by heading over to SecuritySales.com
Thursday, February 25, 2016
What’s Wrong with This Installation?
Head on over to http://goo.gl/hvyq8y and let Jeffrey Zwirn help you figure it out!
What’s wrong with this installation? The end of line resistors
(EOLR) installed in improper locations within the control panel set on both the
normally open and normally closed protective loop circuits. The control panel
set is not electrically grounded and the telephone line within the control
panel set is t-tapped. The wiring is terminated within the control.
Friday, February 19, 2016
Security Speaking with Jeff Zwirn
Security Sales & Integration hosts "Security Speaking," a weekly podcast featuring the industry’s leading business owners, operators, managers and subject matter experts discussing the trends, challenges, technologies and more affecting today’s electronic security professional. Scott Goldfine, Editor-in-Chief of Security Sales & Integration, sat down with Jeffrey Zwirn, president of IDS Research and Development, an alarm and security consultation, expert witness and training authority. Here, they discussed the legal implications alarm companies face as a result of installation, some of the most common errors installing and monitoring system, how owners/operators can elevate industry professionalism and more.
Click here to follow the link to listen to this podcast or to download.
Click here to follow the link to listen to this podcast or to download.
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
This Woman Lost Her Life Due To The Carelessness Of An Alarm Company
A bloodthirsty man invaded a small-town Minnesota home
in 2006 and took the lives of his former girlfriend and her companion. The
murderer was able to accomplish the break-in and move through the house
undetected. Fearing for her life for some time, the victim had recently purchased a customized
security system worth several thousand dollars in hopes of gaining early
detection of her stalker’s presence should he attempt a home invasion. The
system included an inside siren, an outside siren, motion detection, panic
alarm, two keypad sounders, an outside strobe light, perimeter system and more,
all of which would activate at the same time, once the system detected an
intruder.
Sadly, when the attacker did come for her, the system
failed catastrophically. The nationally-based
alarm company that set up her system was found to have recklessly
breached its responsibilities by failing to design, install and test a system
that was supposed to be customized for early detection of an intruder.
The investigation was led by forensic alarm
industry expert and president of Teaneck, N.J.-based IDS Research and
Development Inc., Jeffrey
Zwirn. Zwirn determined
the company recklessly breached its duties to its customer. While the alarm company did ultimately come to an out of
court settlement years later for an undisclosed sum, thought to be many
millions of dollars, those lives are lost due to some as simple as a faulty
system.
The carelessness of an alarm
company cost this woman her life. Read more here to avoid a tragedy like this
in your life.
Friday, February 12, 2016
FACT: 98% of Businesses Rely On Referrals to Gain New Business
FACT: 98% of businesses rely on referrals to gain new business.
FACT: Only 3% of businesses have a strategy for generating referrals.
Business Network International has a simple strategy based on the proven concept of "what goes around, comes around." It by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Networking requires commitment.
I'm a member of the BNI Synergy Chapter. Our chapter is a dynamic, committed group of business people who know how to refer business to each other. We meet weekly to provide a positive, supportive, and structured environment to exchange quality business referrals. The most successful chapters of BNI are comprised of participants who are sincerely committed to helping one another through networking. They are a team. We have open categories for individuals who will bring enthusiasm and integrity to our meeting. Just one person per professional specialty is allowed in each chapter.
If your category is open, then visit a meeting and lock out your competition!
FACT: Only 3% of businesses have a strategy for generating referrals.
Business Network International has a simple strategy based on the proven concept of "what goes around, comes around." It by helping you build personal relationships with dozens of other qualified business professionals. Networking requires commitment.
I'm a member of the BNI Synergy Chapter. Our chapter is a dynamic, committed group of business people who know how to refer business to each other. We meet weekly to provide a positive, supportive, and structured environment to exchange quality business referrals. The most successful chapters of BNI are comprised of participants who are sincerely committed to helping one another through networking. They are a team. We have open categories for individuals who will bring enthusiasm and integrity to our meeting. Just one person per professional specialty is allowed in each chapter.
If your category is open, then visit a meeting and lock out your competition!
Wednesday, November 18, 2015
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY - Jeffrey Zwirn & IDS
Intruder Detection Systems, Inc. supports the American Heart Association in their mission to build healthier lives, free of cardiovascular diseases and stroke.
Intruder Detection Systems, Inc. supports March of the Living. March of the Living is an international, educational program that brings Jewish teens from all over the world to Poland on Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, to march from Auschwitz to Birkenau,
Intruder Detection Systems, Inc. supports The Wounded Warrior Project, and holds the highest appreciation, honor, and respect for those who protect and serve our country.
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