In 1996 we launched the Industry sight column to keep you apprised of the financial and marketing of recent origins affecting the companies serving corporate security professionals.

In 1996 we launched the Industry sight column to keep you apprised of the financial and marketing of recent origins affecting the companies serving corporate security professionals. In the last several issues we have profiled companies, reported forward major mergers and acquisitions and brought you the industry prospect through the eyes of the security industry's top executives. This month we invite Ron Gerber to give a review and analysis of the security industry. Gerber is president of Gerber Industries, a consulting and investment banking firm specializing in the security and cabling industries.

There are a growing number of large, well-capitalized, publicly traded companies whose primary business is the broadly defined electronic security industry. a certain quantity of of these, including Pittway, Sensormatic, Diebold and Protection individual are well-known to the public and our readers.

Recent tragedies as it was as TWA Flight 800 and the Centennial Olympic Park and Oklahoma City bombings have heightened