Safeguard Business Unit Begins Construction on New IP Video Monitoring Center

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Safeguard Security Holdings, Inc. (Pink Sheets:SSHS), a provider of corporate, industrial and residential security solutions, announces today that its subsidiary, SYSTEMSgroup Security Technologies, will begin construction this week on its new IP video monitoring center located at its headquarters in Dallas, Texas.

SYSTEMSgroup’s Vice President of Engineering, Max W. Cook, P.E., will oversee the construction of the new center. Mr. Cook stated, “We are most excited about our video monitoring center and what it brings to SYSTEMSgroup and our clients. We have entered into an agreement with a company specializing in IP video monitoring that offers a unique approach to remote real-time monitoring of IP video. Our corporate division will announce additional details on this alliance within the next few days.”

R. Michael Lagow, CEO for the parent company to SYSTEMSgroup, stated, “The construction of this center begins a new era for SYSTEMSgroup and its sister companies. Additional announcements with be forthcoming within the next couple of weeks regarding the video technology and deployment of services that this center will offer. It has been designed with the latest leading-edge IP video technology and services. This center will set a new standard in video monitoring analytics that will further separate us from our competitors and will boost our monthly subscription- based revenue.”

About Safeguard: (www.safeguardsecurityholdings.com)

Safeguard is a fully integrated sole-source security solutions provider offering a converged suite of physical and electronic services through its operating subsidiaries. It provides corporate and government clients with a wide range of security services ranging from highly trained armed and unarmed guards, security management staffing, and security staff outsourcing, to installation and maintenance of integrated electronic security solutions, and even to specialized consulting services as may be required to support the varying security needs of its clients. The Company is organized along three distinct lines of business - Technical Systems, Security Personnel and Security Outsourcing Solutions. Its operations are directed from its offices in Dallas, Texas.

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