CHICAGO, June 17, 2021― For over a decade, Crain’s Fast 50 feature has highlighted companies headquartered in Chicago that have achieved impressive revenue gains in a variety of industries from technology to healthcare. As leaders in their respective areas, each company was ranked by percentage of revenue growth from 2015 through 2020. For three years, [...]
The largest Black-owned security company in the nation celebrates the grand opening of their Cyber Security Center in efforts to bridge the digital divide for underrepresented minorities within technology MARQUETTE PARK, Il. (May 14, 2021) –AGB Investigative Services (“AGB”) will open its Cyber Security Center, a two-story building featuring cutting-edge cybersecurity technology located at 2445 [...]
Security services have a crucial role to play in keeping multifamily properties safe from the continuing risk of COVID-19. The deadly coronavirus represents an unseen apartment security threat against which security officers must protect residents and themselves. COVID-19 still poses an especially high housing security risk in dense urban areas. As of March 2021, apartment [...]
Rental management companies must bolster apartment security with effective integrated physical security service. Video and security guard surveillance systems and patrolling security guards at a multifamily property increase the effectiveness of physical barriers at deterring and detecting intruders. The best way to protect tenants is to leverage a professional integrated physical security strategy -- a [...]
Social distancing, economic hardship and civil unrest create opportunities for crime. While 2020 marked a year of peril, it also forced apartment management companies to re-evaluate the future of their security service. Property managers now must consider how to address new apartment security threats, from apartment vacancies and property crime to the return of [...]
Like never before, building tenants and property managers are seeking security services as they face security threats that demand new safety measures. The COVID-19 pandemic, the protests, and unrest following the killing of George Floyd, and the summertime wave of looting that caught Chicago off guard have created a new reality. Domestic disruption is a [...]
Illinois’ largest community policing provider trains private guards to respond to unstable situations. Officers used their training to manage civil unrest following George Floyd’s death Civil unrest is not something all private security companies are trained to handle. Sadly, though, the events after George Floyd’s death on May 25, 2020, were predictable. Citizens would show [...]
Multifamily housing faces volatile and unpredictable safety threats. Private security services employ multiple techniques to help property managers protect people and property Like never before, building tenants and property managers face security threats that demand new safety measures. The COVID-19 pandemic, the protests, and unrest following the killing of George Floyd, and the summertime wave [...]
When a utility company turned to AGB, an award winning security service company, to protect workers and critical infrastructure, the security company developed its own emergency response plan, patrol system and training to minimize disruption Critical infrastructure for utilities needs protection nature. But in doing so, repair technicians also need protection from human nature—in [...]
Field services technicians and delivery drivers face danger in high-risk neighborhoods. Here is how AGB provides data-driven, performance-proven security to field force management. The workers who serve our communities a day in and day out—repair technicians, utility technicians, cable technicians—perform challenging tasks that often involve heavy machinery, electrical lines or work high above the ground [...]
